On a field trip with my first graders, I sat with one of my students. We talked for a good fifteen minutes about what it would be like to have multiple lines of symmetry in our body. Included in the amusing discussion:
- You could have another entire body attached to your back!
- You could have four faces: one in the normal spot, one on the back of your head, and one on each of your sides!
- You could have two feet on each leg!
- You could have eight eyeballs!
- You would need a lot of glasses for all those eyeballs!
- It would be really weird and funny!
- Important tangent discussion: a) What if your face were on your belly and your stomach were in your head? b) Where would you poop? Answers: a) It would be silly and b) out the back of your head, of course.
Fact of note: the student brought up the topic of alternative body symmetry, not me.
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