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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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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

And now, he was stuck. There was already an answer there, wasn't there?

"So? Find your beauty. What is X?"

Okay.

Okay. So...fifty-three minus eighteen, that left...thirty-five?

So. So...that meant that 2x + 35 = 51.

Alright. So, that would mean that he had to get rid of that thirty-five. Subtract, right? He'd have to subtract it, to get rid of it. And to get rid of it he'd have to get rid of it twice, so, things wouldn't be lopsided, probably....and if he did that....

2x = 16

Link thought for a moment, chewing his lip, fiddling with a can of spray paint. Squished together meant multiply. But, to get rid of it, he'd have to...divide? So, dividing the two by itself, would get rid of it, and then if he divided the sixteen by two....

Link looked more than a little baffled but wrote an "8" anyway.

Sho clapped his shoulder again. "Now there is a flawless calculation. Alright, let's wrap that for today, meet up tomorrow and we'll revisit angles."

Link mentally filed all this away, as "how you do weird math". Mathematics, out of all academics, made the most sense to him. History, would have been a close second, if it had been about his beloved Hyrule.

He nodded. "Need me to clean anything up?"

"Nah, tomorrow's art class is primer. we'll have some clean walls to work tomorrow. You're going to stomp those zeros, and if anyone gives you any negatives about having not been in school before now? Erase ;um, or send them to me. You got the brains kid, we just gotta bring you up on the actual skills to reach infinity."

Did his professor just tell him to kill any potential bullies he ran into?

Link wasn't sure if that was...kind or creepy or alarming.

Definitely more than a bit of the latter.

"Thanks?"

He nodded. "Don't subtract your chill over the peanut gallery. There will always be zeros out there trying to drag you down into negatives. But they're all garbage. CRUNCH. Add 'em to the heap." He nodded and swatted his shoulder lightly. "See you tomorrow."

"See you then."

He nodded and walked him out.

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