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Plus one Class thread - OTA

Who: Minamimoto and whatever unfortunates wander into his classes
Where: The maths classroom, his... uh... renovated arts classroom, and the field for P.E.
When: Weekdays on and off all month.
Warnings: bad math puns and threats of erasure.

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He grinned and picked up his own can, hot pink, and shook it up. He sprayed 1 + 1 on the wall, then an = sign.

"Can you fill in the blanks?" he asked, stepping out of the way with a smirk.

Oh. It was paint.

Link was slightly wary around this particular professor, given his weird moods and rantings during PE and Math, but, he still went ahead and made a "2" with the spray-paint.

He nodded. "Not half bad. Let's see this then." He spray painted a 45 + 72 = and then stepped back. "Let's see it."

Link tilted his head for a few seconds before spraying a careful "117".

"So, seems like you can add well enough, not bad for someone with negative schooling. Let's try this."

He swapped colours and sprayed 110 - 75 = and then stepped back again.

Math had real world applications, even in the Forest.

Link thought and then wrote "35".

"Not half bad. Speaking of half..."

His next painting, in a third colour was 46 ÷ 2 =.

Once again he stepped back.

Dividing rations for the winter, was the first thing that came to Link's mind. Although, dividing that many of anything between just two people would have been unheard of.

So far the most challenging part of this was getting the spray-paint to cooperate.

Link wrote a careful "23".

He actually seemed proud as he nodded and grabbed a fourth color. "25 X 4 =" he asked as he wrote it, dancing back after. This kid never got to school before? What a factorial waste.

If things had been slightly different, and his parents hadn't died in the Hyrule's Civil War, Link likely would have had a tutor at the very least.

(Saria hadn't done too bad, truth be told, despite his less than stellar spelling and reading skills. But, there were real world applications for math, even in a society of Fairy Children, while books were not something that they had access to. )

He studied the problem for a moment and mentally pictured the problem in groups of Deku seeds. Then, he wrote "100" with a little more confidence.

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He smirked. "Well Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Ready for something a little harder?"

"Oh, uh...sure? I'm not sure I'll know it, but, I'll try?"

Sho nodded and started moving with multiple cans, using the same colour for each function as he used before, until there was a brightly written equation on the wall.

1 + (14÷7) =

And then he stepped back. "If you need a hint, you already got one."

And now Link was puzzled. Fourteen divided by seven he could understand, but the addition of the plus one and parenthesis threw him.

He studied the colors for a moment, trying to work it out. One plus fourteen would make fifteen, but, you couldn't divide that seven ways equally. Someone would be short-changed.

He knew that you couldn't divide fourteen eight ways evenly, either.

Maybe since it was all enclosed it was supposed to be separate? Then...that would be two. And then....one plus two?

Link scrunched his nose briefly, but, wrote a three with some considerable hesitation.

He nodded and clapped him on the back. "Please excuse my dear aunt sally," he said, grinning. "Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. Aunt Sally can always help you figure out the order to do an example of this kind!"

Oh, so that had been right. Link gave a small smile, pleased he hadn't completely messed it up.

And now he understood at least one of Sho's expressions.

"Let's see if you can FOIL this one," he said with a smirk, throwing a new equation onto the wall.

(87+13)(100÷5+12) =

He hadn't shown Link this form of multiplication yet, would the kid catch on? Time to find out.

"Once again you've had your clue, let's see if you can multiply your success." Fine, one more clue.

Link stared for a full minute.

Above the first set of parentheses he wrote a "100" with some certainty. Above the second set he wrote a somewhat less certain "32".

He frowned to himself and wrote "132" as his answer.

"Nah. Find your beauty. Watch. touched parens multiply. Try to FOIL it knowing that."

Link frowned and crossed out his original answer and wrote "3200" in its place. Which, seemed like an awful big number to him.....

He clapped him on the shoulder again. "Even throwing you a curve you can find your beauty," he said with a smirk. "Not half bad for never having been in school. We'll have you blowing past those zeroes in no time."

Link gave one of his slightly goofy smiles.

Goddesses knew he wasn't exactly scholar material, but, mathematics at least made some sense.

"Alright. Time to add to the difficulty? Let's see if you can solve for X."

"Hey, I'll try."

More spray paint, and a new example.

2x + (53-18) = 51

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