Does a child understand the nuances of numerical values as we teach history? It is tough to conceptualise that 100 elephants are not the same as 100 mustard seeds, which has no connection with 100 days or 100 dry leaves lying in a garden at a distance of 100 meters. What does it mean to tell a ten-year-old child to say 100 years ago, let alone 1 million years?This article puts forth a concrete proposal of teaching history starting from the present. It argues that history is not the past. Past is gone. History is an attempt to reconstruct the past with the clues available in the present.