http://steelwhitetable.org/media/images/cavlin-banging-nails-in-table.gif http://steelwhitetable.org/media/images/cavlin-banging-nails... I don't think the bas

http://steelwhitetable.org/media/images/cavlin-banging-nails-in-table.gif http://steelwhitetable.org/media/images/cavlin-banging-nails... I don't think the basics of algebra will have such results, but both are indeed tools that a kid will figure out a good use for if such tools are on hand and have been played with enough. I could credit a lot of my creative skill to spending inordinate time as a kid just fiddling with a broad range of tools in the basement, regardless of whether I understood them at the time.