When Sara Seager's 11 year-old daughter comes home from school with a new calculator, Sara is excited to show her how to use it. But when Sara tries to get her daughter to write down her multiplication tables, she gets frustrated. Sara decides to ask her daughter for a nonce--an arbitrary number that is never used again--to help her remember the multiplication tables. However, her daughter can't stop thinking about the nonce and starts making toastings out of it. Eventually, Sara decides to get her daughter a tringles--a toy that has a number on it that doesn't take up space