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Anjali Ma’am : (with exaggerated excitement and twinkling eyes, wanting Rohit to
answer correctly) Let’s change the fruit. If I give you four red cherries
and then four more, how many red cherries will you have?

Rohit : (again counting on his fingers, says confidently) Eight.

The teacher is happy and smiles victoriously.

Anjali Ma’am : Wonderful! That is right. Now, if I give you four apples
and four more, how many apples will you have?

Rohit : Four.
victoriously
Anjali Ma’am : (disappointed) But, how? If four cherries and four
more make eight, how can four apples and four more make up four?
Can you explain your answer, Rohit?

Rohit : (softly) Yes, Ma’am. I live nearby, and Kamla didi drops me to school every day.
Her son, Jignesh, goes to another school that is on the way. We walk to our
schools together. Today, he was crying as he wanted to eat apples, and didi
said that they were very expensive and she could not buy them. If I get apples,
I will definitely share them with him. So, if I have eight apples, I will give half to
him. I will then be left with four apples.
The teacher is very touched by this reply.

Anjali Ma’am : Class, let’s clap for Rohit for sharing his apples.

Class applauds loudly. Why did Anjali

Anjali Ma’am : I hope all of you will share your things ? Ma’am ask the class
with your friends like Rohit. to applaud Rohit?

– Manjula Shukla

New Words

Word Meaning

approach

exaggerated

victoriously

touched

applauds

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