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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."
Sign In - Math, 09/01.
Assessment Test - Math, 09/01.
It starts out with your simple, basic mathematic problems like addition, substration, multiplication and division, gets into some geometry, some calculus, algebra, trigonometry, logicistic, mathematical physics, convoluted story problems about trains and apples...
So...handwave the specifics and let us know in general how you did!
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!
Talk to the Teacher - Math, 09/01.
OOC - Math, 09/01.
Also, work has been hot garbage lately, and so chances of me just disappearing off the face of the earth from mental and physical exhaustion are very high, ugh.
Re: Sign In - Math, 09/01.
Re: Assessment Test - Math, 09/01.
She was definitely regretting not paying attention in her math classes that was for sure and by the time she got through to the more advanced questions, she was leaving more questions blank.
In the end she found she was comfortable at least with addition and subtraction and some basic multiplication but it was safe to say that Jo didn't pass this test.
Re: Sign In - Math, 09/01.
Re: Assessment Test - Math, 09/01.
She was going to yell at Scott so hard for this.
The early stuff was easy -- she had made it through multiplication and long division before she, you know, murdered her family and went full coyote. Then it started getting a little more complex, playing tricks with orders of operations. And then there were letters? And shapes that wanted her to do more than know if they were triangles or rhombuses? Who even had to do this stuff in real life?
There was a very frustrated werecoyote showing claws and fangs and blue glowing eyes in this math class today. Her answer to the non-basic arithmetic sections of the test was to shred it with a growl and fling it across the room.
So . . . well, consider her assessed.
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.
Re: Sign In - Math, 09/01.
Re: Assessment Test - Math, 09/01.
That's where she collapsed like a soufflé because no one had taught her that yet.
Re: Sign In - Math, 09/01.
Re: Assessment Test - Math, 09/01.
Also, she'd improved since then. A little. So she was able to conquer the long division (mostly) and even a bit of the algebra, but then it all went off the rails.