Mal Peet - Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations w

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.

- Mal Peet

source: Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

topic: Together, Different, Three, Being Scared, Legos, Different Directions, Signs And Symbols