“The test was in English. Did that make it harder
for you?”
“I used to think the word problems would be hard,
but they were not so bad. I had to translate the words
from English into Dutch. But the numbers are the
same in English as in Dutch. They look the same
on the page, and they stand for the same things. So
there is no need to translate. That is part of why I like
math so much. It is the same in all places. 3 + 3 = 6
in the Netherlands. It is the same here in the United
States. It is the same on the moon, or on Mars!”