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fandomhigh2021-09-01 02:47 am
died8yearsago) wrote in fandomhigh2021-09-01 02:47 am
Math; Wednesday, First Period [09/01].
Well, Rosa had already had a bit of a morning. Things at the bar must have gone a little harder than she expected, considering she'd woken up that morning with some quiet guy obsessed with leather who didn't even speak Spansih instead of, you know, her wife, because that was a thing, her being married, so now, in addition to having to figure out what to do about that, she had to teach a math class.
In a school that had people from places that might not even have numbers.
So there she was, in front of her class, the green scales on her skin emitting their soft golden glow like they always had, and she sighed, her forked tongue flicking out over her lips a moment before getting everything started.
"Right," she began, "math class. Which is a class I'm not sure this school has literally ever had, but we're apparently going to teach it. But, since everyone here is probably coming from a lot of different places, I figured the best way to start is going to be with this..."
She held up a stack of paper, grinning faintly, and the sadism in that seemed to make her scales glow a little brighter.
"An assessment test. Obviously, this is not going to count toward a grade or anything, it's just to see where everyone is at so I have an idea of what the hell I'm even teaching. So it'll start with basic principles, get incresingly more complex and involved as you go on, try to answer what you can, if you have no idea, then I guess that gives me an idea of what I'm teaching you.
"And then we'll go over some basics," she said. "Because if you walk away with anything in this class, it should at least be how to count and add and subtract.
"Alright," a glowing, scaly hand sporting a shining wedding ring went out to pass over the stack of tests to the nearest student, "take one, pass it around, and we'll get started."
In a school that had people from places that might not even have numbers.
So there she was, in front of her class, the green scales on her skin emitting their soft golden glow like they always had, and she sighed, her forked tongue flicking out over her lips a moment before getting everything started.
"Right," she began, "math class. Which is a class I'm not sure this school has literally ever had, but we're apparently going to teach it. But, since everyone here is probably coming from a lot of different places, I figured the best way to start is going to be with this..."
She held up a stack of paper, grinning faintly, and the sadism in that seemed to make her scales glow a little brighter.
"An assessment test. Obviously, this is not going to count toward a grade or anything, it's just to see where everyone is at so I have an idea of what the hell I'm even teaching. So it'll start with basic principles, get incresingly more complex and involved as you go on, try to answer what you can, if you have no idea, then I guess that gives me an idea of what I'm teaching you.
"And then we'll go over some basics," she said. "Because if you walk away with anything in this class, it should at least be how to count and add and subtract.
"Alright," a glowing, scaly hand sporting a shining wedding ring went out to pass over the stack of tests to the nearest student, "take one, pass it around, and we'll get started."
Lesson: Addition and Substraction - Math, 09/01.
"I'm going into this," said Rosa, "assuming you all at least know how to count to ten, but just a refresher on that, look." She gestured to the desk. "I have ten apples. Each apple indicates a number. So, for example." She lifted an apple. "One apple." She picked up the second. "Two apples. Three..."
She continued on through to ten, sounding every bit as annoyed as she was this was her life right now and that she had to break it down like that, but also very clearly thinking that someone in the class might actually need it.
"And addition and substraction," she said, "is when you add or take away those numbers. For example, if I start with five apples," she arranged them accordingly, "and add two...one-two-three-four-five plus one-two, equals six-seven. See? Now when I take away one-two-three apples, I now have four. One-two-three-four. Get it?"
God save her if they didn't.
"Are there questions?" She almost didn't want to ask! She looked desperate for a moment, because this was an actual class about actual academic things and it was weird, so she, not knowing what else to really do with a math class, just asked, "Anyone else have any good examples?"
Of addition and subtraction or maybe counting.
Ugh. Just let her go back home to her wife already!
Re: Lesson: Addition and Substraction - Math, 09/01.
There were going to be ruts clawed into the desk by the time this class period was over.