Meet my 8-year old Economics Professor
Over the course of my time as a Maths tutor, I’ve noticed that primary school students shy away from money problems (to be fair, we all run away from money problems in real life, but that’s another story).

Young children in particular seem to dislike questions that involve working out total cost and calculating change.

In a recent lesson I was teaching on this topic, the student in question was a little girl we’ll call Olivia. Exhausted by the prospect of another ‘Jimmy buys two candy bars and a packet of chips’ question, she sighed and said:

“I wish everything was free.”

Welcome to the club, sister.

But then — get this — she thoughtfully added:

“No, actually then everything would get sold out really quickly. And there wouldn’t be anything left.”

Woah! She was both making Adam Smith proud and bringing up a really good point.
['Roshan Daryanani']
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