Originally Posted by Phoenix Rising

Back to pacing around the room and checking numbers, it was Josephina's turn for her head to hurt. Though she did ENJOY this stuff, sometimes even when you enjoy something, it didn't matter and it could still hurt your head. Huh? Oh, right, checking calculations. She hadn't even noticed she'd been staring over the Gryffindor Captain's parchment for like five minutes without saying anything.

"Good, good, except... no wait... You've miscalculated captain and bookworm, I think...." She said staring again at the seventh year's parchment, before moving onward.



Hearing a question from a rather tall boy, the one with striking familiarity to Sierra, she nodded. "That would be correct, punctuation marks don't carry any number values..." Huh? Wait, a second, Sierra described herself as a twin, did she? "Greingoth..." Yea, she was slow. Or she just lacked coffee in her caffeine system. "You. You're related, aren't you?" And way for her to not speak in complete sentences.




Right, moving on. "Yes, dear, that's good." Very good, indeed. But by seventh year, hopeful their mistakes in calculations would be less frequent.



Tossing a small comforting smile at the young Slytherin who seemed embarrassed, she hoped she wouldn't be. Mistakes did happen, after all.




Was it just her or did Kurumi seem ODDLY SHY about her work being shared in front of the whole class?! OH wait, perhaps she should have asked the thirteen year old, but she didn't think it would be an issue. Who didn't like to have their work showcased after all? Other than herself when she was that age.

"Nice job again, dear," Fina said, quickly moving on. No need to add more pressure to the girl by lingering over work.



Moving on to a Ravenclaw, who like another one, liked to use the same word in the chosen sentence. Eh, whatever, she hadn't said they couldn't... BUT what? "Um dear, your second Romeo there, you've missed a digit." Surely the girl would notice, right? She seemed adept enough.




Now's the time when Professor Hadley was both flattered and simultaneously wanted to go hide under her professor desk. "I... Miss Stone... I... those calculations are..." She had nothing to add. "Perfect. Yes. I wouldn't change a thing." Smile sliding onto her face, she slid over toward the next student's work.




"Same for you..." She said, in acknowledgement of another unfamiliar boy's work. "Good work." Short and sweet, but it was a good way to learn.



Was Evelyn no longer going by her best friend's surname? Had the inseparable pair had a falling out over the summer? Noticing the looks Destiny kept giving toward Evelyn, Fina was sure it was something similar.

And then the phrase. Oh there was definitely something going on between the two and it was probably over something petty like chocolate too.

But now wasn't the time for personal vendettas. "Nice work, Evelyn." Yup, yup. The Slytherin was accurate with her numbers.



Huh? The Ravenclaw couldn't get ROMEO right but these long sentences she got right? "Nice job this time. Just correct your previous sentence and you're all set."



Hearing a young female voice and a question, Hadley peeked over at the parchment in question and studied it for a moment. "Um... yes... and no... I've asked you to specifically not reduce, because with paragraphs, reducing to a single digit is not important, nor is it necessary. With writing a paragraph, you'll see that it comes to what the numerical values of each sentence is that matters most." Hadley started. "So with your sentence, you'll want to go back and add the values for each word without any single-digit reduction." Please, it was the only time they didn't have to reduce. They should take advantage of it.



And again, the girl was quite on top of her numbers. "Nice job, once more," Fina nodded at the seventh year.



"Yes my dears, you're both very careful with those numbers, which has paid off." Fina nodded at the pair of Badger Prefects. "Nice work to both of you." And nice statement, Lockhart .



Stopping at the next student's parchment, Josephina was pleased to see he got the addition part correct... but... "Um dear, you've forgot to practice adding the total value of each of those five words there." Yup, yup. Simple mistake. No worries though; it probably wouldn't take him long to do given his awesome calculation abilities.



Noticing the Slytherin nearby had crossed out his sentence calculations, she tilted her head as she looked it over again. "Um... You've missed another digit. A 9 from the 'R' in dream," Hadley nodded at the boy. Other than that, he was good.



Noticing the look on the adorable first year puffs face, Fina walked over and studied his parchment, shaking her head. "It looks correct to me, but one thing though, with your sentence... if when writing an actual paragram, you'll want the numbers to equate better, you might need to add the 'g' on feel'" She suggested. Maybe, maybe not. Depends.



Looking toward the girl who called her name, Josephina glanced over the girl's work. "Almost... except for curious, you've miscalculated, as well as missed a digit for the phrase 'i need to study'" Perhaps prevalent to the fact that the girl needed to?




Looking over yet another Gryffindor first year's work, Josephina was impressed with how almost accurate they seemed to be. "Close, but you've missed the first 'L' in Baseball Player, so your calculation is off by that one digit." Hadley nodded, before turning to the previous said-counterpart-to-Evelyn.



Staring at the girl's parchment, Josephina was now FULLY convinced that something happened between the pair. But her work was correct so personal issues she would have to sort out later....maybe. As long as they didn't bring it to her lesson, she was good.

"Nice job," Hadley complimented of the sixth year.



Long sentence coming up next, in which Josephina totally needed a double-take on her own mental calculations. "Very nice," she complimented, clearly impressed. These kids were actually pretty decent with their basic math skills.



Except for minor errors. "You've added the value of the word 'are' twice in that sentence, dear boy," she commented, smiling lightly and hoping to not startle him terribly much.



Staring at the next Slytherin's work, Josephina shook her head slowly. "Almost, but you've miscalculated 'Daichi' and didn't add up the final value for 'Duck'." She paused contemplatively. "Oh and make sure you add up the final total for that sentences as well," Fina said, smiling at the boy. Not a bad sentence.




Checking over the next boy's work, Josephina couldn't help but notice there were quite a few of the male gender in Arithmancy this term; not that it mattered terribly much but just an observation. "Nice work," Hadley said of the older Claw, as she moved on to the next.



The next student, however, didn't seem to understand this AT ALL. "Um dear... I'm not sure what number system you're using to change your letters to numbers, but you'll need to take a look over most of your changes and compare it up with the chart found in chapter two of your textbook." Because like ALL her word to number value calculations were wong.



"You've got it," Hadley said, complimenting the next girl, wondering if it was just her or there were more students this year than last? Hmm... She shouldn't complain.



Stopping at yet another Slytherin, she frowned. "Almost, dear, almost. BUT the 'Y' in Slytherin should be a 7, not an 8...." Fina said quietly. Subtle differences that could make a difference.



Looking over toward a Hufflepuff that Hadley was fairly certain she'd seen him once or twice before, she looked over as he AVERAGED out his words. Blink, blink. "Um... You're supposed to add up the numbers in each word, not average all the word values together. For instance, the word ship would sum 25 if you add up each of those four digits," Hadley nodded, hoping he maybe semi-understood now.



Before attending to a Ravenclaw that was calling to her for assistants, Hadley glanced quickly over at a young Lioness and gave her a quick thumbs up of acknowledgement.



"In your textbooks, if you flip to chapter two, you'll see a chart in which are the numbers associated with each letter of the alphabet." Hadley explained. "So you take a word, we'll say, 'book' and figure out which numbers are associated with those letters."
She wrote it out on the girl's parchment:

B-O-O-K
2-6-6-2
2+6+6+2 =16

"As you can see, by summing each of the values of the letters, we can an answer of 16, which is the numerical value associated with the word book." She nodded, encouraging the girl to move on and write her own words.



"Perfect," Hadley said, nodding at the next girl, another young Hufflepuff. Clearly their prefects were setting good examples.




Nodding at the next girl, she smiled at her statement. "Nice job."



What was with the lack of confidence in Slytherins this year? Staring at the boy's work, she shook her head. "Quite the opposite actually," Fina mused. "You're quite good at this."



Giving a thumbs up toward the next kid, Josephina made her way toward another Slytherin who seemed to having troubles...Maybe




But he was HAPPY about his troubles? Shaking her head, she smiled, "I think... you should double-check your calculation for that long sentence." Fina commented honestly enough.



Master of everything, eh, Carter? Raising an eyebrow at him curiously, she shook her head. "Doubtful on the statement, but that's besides the point....I think, you should double-check that calculation of your house value." Yup, yup. Do it.



"You're doing good!" Hadley said, smiling at the girl who had taken some rather extensive notes. "Don't give up now!" She encouraged.



Mmm... "Close, but I think you should double-check your calculations for your last two statements. Including the letter to number conversions," Fina said, commenting about the second year's work. She was sure that Nika would figure out her mistakes.



"Nice job," she said, as she noticed the other girl from before had continued with her work.



"See! I told you that you could do it!" Hadley said, smiling at the young Gryffindor with the look of a proud parent.



Frowning at the next girl, who insisted on reducing, she shook her head. "I said NO reducing to a single digit... And um... I think you've miscalculated anyhow." Yup, yup. Go, double-check. Do it.



Ending her current rounds back where she started with the Gryffindor Captain, Fina smiled as he seemed to have figured out the sentence thing, even if he miscalculated before. "Nice job," she commented lightly, before returning to address the rest of the class.


"Most of you are figuring this out. If you've done a statement already and don't want to attempt another, just sit tight for a few more moments... We'll be continuing shortly." Hadley said, quickly before returning to her rounds.

OOC: Yea, this reply took longer than expected and my shift is rounding to a close. I'll finishing replying to the rest of you IN A LITTLE WHILE and then continue on with the lesson. SOORRRYY ABOUT THAT!!! <333