WORTHWHILE ACADEMIC GOALS!

I just attended the parent-teacher meeting for my six and a half year old daughter who is in year two of an international school in Norway. As part of the meeting I received a written academic performance assessment including a statement of winter learning targets:

• Improve handwriting style by beginning to join up letters,
• use capital letters and full stops correctly in writing,
• Count in 2's, 5's, and 10's forward and backward,
• Know addition number bonds to 20,
• Do some problem solving activities with money and time.

I don't really care/worry so much about the former two targets, but the latter three really warm the heart of an economist. How about that last one - isn't it fantastic?!! I can't wait for her to be able to solve utility-maximizing problems involving two constraints!!!

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MILJØØKONOMENE is a Norwegian environmental and resource economics blog built on the concept of the US blog Environmental Economics. We mostly write in Norwegian and address environmental and resource issues particularly relevant to Norway. However, from time to time, we will post English language discussions that might be of broad relevance to people with general interests in environmental and resource economics. These can be found under the tag ("etiketter" on the lefthand side): English Blog.