Brother Hamburg is the son of my sister, who is also my eldest nephew.
Recently, my sister is going to take the teacher's certificate exam and has an interview soon. She has no experience in education and teaching, so she deliberately took advantage of the New Year's Day holiday to come to me to learn from me. It is indeed quite difficult. There are so many texts and so many knowledge points. Which subject will be tested? The probability of winning is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Hamburg was also brought here. During this day’s contact, I found that Hamburg was very smart. He often asks profound questions, such as "What is metabolism?" He can also explain some words and phenomena very accurately, "A drop means a drop in temperature."
Recently, he has become obsessed with addition calculations and clock.
In the evening, I asked him 8 8=? , he immediately began to calculate, 8 1 = 9, 8 2 = 10...counted until 8 8 = 16. Although this method seems to us to be very time-consuming, for a child in a small class, isn't this a great thing? Doesn't it look like inductive reasoning?
He also has a special liking for clocks. When we told him that it was 9:57, he immediately converted to 24-hour timing, which was 21:57.
At night, as if he had discovered a new world, he raised his little head, looked at the clock on the wall, and asked us why the second hand kept moving. This is indeed a difficult question to answer. Tell him that one minute has elapsed since the second hand has moved once. This is not a good answer. Time moves all the time, not a certain moment you see, nor does it suddenly jump to the next moment.
Later, he continued to observe. When the second hand on the wall passed the number 12, the display on the mobile phone changed from 8 minutes to 9 minutes. He raised his head and observed carefully for a while.
His uncle told him that when the second hand reaches the number 1, it is 5 seconds, and when it reaches 2, it is 10 seconds. Just counting like this, with my strong memory, I reviewed it several times and was able to continue reasoning. Then he came over and told us, "13 is 65, 14 is 70..." He is really a very thoughtful child.
In retrospect, the clock was a very complex invention. It is obviously the number 8, but it can mean 8, 20, or 40 seconds!
Every child is an apple bitten by God. Although Brother Hamburg is very smart, his personality is not very likable. When he was still unfamiliar with me, he would always ignore people by saying "hum". He was also introverted and timid in kindergarten, and did not dare to play and communicate with others.
He also loves to cry. At night in the grocery store, he looked at the rows of clocks with great interest, and even after asking him to leave, he kept crying and kept crying. There was nothing he could do.