Jasmine and Math

I should post this on the homeschooling blog too, or instead, but it's too cute not to share with family so here it goes!

Jasmine's math problem was to add the three numbers you see in the bottom left of the picture, using "base 10" cards. She knows the steps but was hoping to find a different way to do it. Here's the conversation we had:

Abe had 1849 sheep, Amy had 2735 sheep, and Abagail had 3817 sheep. They decided they wanted to know how many sheep they had altogether. 

Here are Jasmine's solutions:
They could stay up all day and all night and count them.

or

They could hire more shepherds; one for each sheep.
(I then told her that was okay, but how many shepherds are there??)

I love her, um, creativity!