Originally Posted by PhoenixRising

Hearing a small voice asking if her work was correct, Josephina hurried in the direction of the small Hufflepuff. Looking it over, she smiled. "Yes, my dear, you did."



"Much better, dear," Fina said as she passed by the young Gryffindor again.



And then the girl proceeded to calculate her life path, to which Fina looked it over, shaking her head. "It's correct, yes, but please do try to use PEDMAS next time, in reducing each component to a single digit before you add them together." For one, it's a lot easy to add single digits than trying to add two digit numbers.



Seeing a pout in the direction of a Ravenclaw, Josephina hurried over to investigate. Hazel eyes scanned the parchment and almost immediately, she discovered a couple of errors. "Two things, dear. In your first name, you missed a vowel." Because Louisa had a lot of vowels in it. "And in your middle name, the Y does act as a vowel, I believe." So in other words, if you're unhappy with your number, it's probably because it's not yours.



Hearing a question from one of her Hufflepuffs, Fina looked up at Alex and blinked. "Um... well, I don't think the third is really part of your full name, is it? I mean is it on your birth certificate? What do you mean by technically?" Of course it was only two extra numbers in the case of the soul urge number anyway, by adding those two words on ....



Seeing another student waiting for her to check her work, Josephina approached the Ravenclaw's desk and pondered it a moment before repeating once more, "The Life Path is correct, yes, but please do try to use PEDMAS next time, in reducing each component to a single digit before you add them together." But as for the soul urge... "Your soul urge number is incorrect though. You've mistaken the U for a 2, whereas on the Number System chart, it's actually 3."



Oh good, someone who actually knew how to use PEDMAS. Nodding in satisfaction at the first number calculations, Fina frowned at the girl's Life Path Number. For one, the one she crossed out was incorrect, and two, when she redid it, she changed the day of her birth. "Um... Ness? Your addition is wrong no matter which day you were born on. And please, I'm trusting you to use your correct day of birth and not change it to get a certain life path number. That defeats the purpose of Arithmancy." She gave the redhead a stern look, basically telling her to do it correctly.



Hearing someone call her name from across the room, Josephina perked up in shock and hurried over to the young slytherin to hear his dilemma. And as sad as it sounded, "Unfortunately, your calculations are both correct, but I am going to advise you ONCE MORE to use PEDMAS, in reducing each component to a single digit before you add them together." Seriously, she needed to start deducting points for those who DIDN'T use it and still chose to add up those large numbers.



Hearing another request to review her work, Fina strode by the desk of Alyssa again and nodded as she glanced it over. "Much better, dear."



And another student was done. Looking over the girl's work, she nodded in approval. "Perfect." As it should be considering the year of the girl and the fact that this was basic stuff.



Seeing a hand-raise, Fina approached the young Ravenclaw and looked over her work. "The Life path number is the one with your birthday, and yes, that one is correct. The soul urge is the one where you use the vowels in your full name. It's almost correct. You've mistaken the number value for Y in your first name; it should be a 7, not a six."



Passing by another Ravenclaw's desk, Josephina nodded in approval as she checked the girl's work.



And it was back to the captain again; looking it over as he worked on his life path number, she nodded in approval, as she looked to her prefect next to him who was just finishing up....



Scanning over her prefect's parchment, she nodded at his calculations. They were, of course, good. He'd come quite a ways with the subject and she had to admit that she was proud of him.



And speaking of people who came a long way, Josephina passed by the desk of the Ravenclaw Captain next and looked over her work. "Good, good," she nodded in approval at the girl's calculations.



Hearing a rather loud laugh, Josephina turned in the direction of a young boy and went to look over his calculations... good ... good... oh no, wait... "Um.. Your Life Path Number, you've miscalculated that one. Which is why I recommend you use PEDMAS to reduce each component to a single digit before you add them together. As you did with your soul urge. So yea, check that calculation on your life path and you're good to go."




And then onto look at another's work; looking over, she nodded in approval at the second year. Another one who had the same soul urge and life path numbers.



Back to Louisa again, who had decided to start work on her life path. This time though, she was correct, to which Josephina nodded at her with approval.




Hearing another innocent voice asking her to check her work, Josephina strode over to the young second year and looked over her work. "Your soul urge is technically correct. Except well, your surname is tricky with that Y. I'm not sure I would count it as a vowel." She paused contemplating. "But then your life path... you got almost to the end and then when you went and added up the three components, you've made a small adding mistake..." 8 plus 2 plus 3 did not equal 14, after all.



Seeing an older boy making a face, Josephina strode over to investigate the boy's calculations. "What's wrong? It looks correct to me."



Seeing another student was done, she walked over to look at her work and smiled. It was refreshing after all to see so many young hufflepuffs seem to be actually getting Arithmancy. "Good job," Fina nodded.



Walking over toward Minnie as she asked her to check her work, she looked it over.... perusing the girl's parchment. Soul urge looked good... but ... "Your Life path... I'm not sure that I really follow your calculations for that one. As in, I can see your year of birth, but your month and day, seem unclear to me where you included them in the calculation." She smiled gratefully though when the second year volunteered to help the Slytherin in need of assistance.



Not that she really felt she needed to check the Head Girl's work, she walked by anyway, just for the sake of it and scanned her parchment, nodding in approval.



"They're both correct now," Josephina said, passing by a young Hufflepuff's desk. "But you should know that it would probably be easier if you don't write ALL the numbers down for each letter. Just the vowels. This way you wouldn't accidentally add in the wrong number. You can just put a dash or something in place of the number." Just a tidbit.



"You... still ended up with the correct answer, but you do realize you added the I from Kurumi as part of your last name as well... right? So you got an extra 9 in there..." You know, just an FYI. But since 27 and 36 are both multiples of 9, it made no difference. In this case.



Seeing that a certain Paulie Foster had rested his quill to the side, she strode by to have a peek at his parchment, despite him not having raised his hand. She nodded though in approval and then moved on....registering faintly on the fact that he was seated next to a certain Ravenclaw.



Another Gryffindor who hadn't asked, but she glanced over the girl's work all the same and nodded at her in approval when she didn't see anything blatantly wrong with her calculations.




"Thank you, Miss Wheatborn and Miss Hollingberry, for helping out a classmate," she smiled at the girls, making a mental note about their efforts. Now, back to investigating the young Slytherin's work, which it seemed as though the two girls had helped her mostly enough out. At least she knew where to get the numbers from. "It's good, yes, but might I suggest if you don't need the numbers for the particular calculation you're doing, then you don't record it. It'll be easier so you don't accidentally add the wrong number." Just a tidbit.

"And yes, you should reduce your final answer to a single digit."



Hearing another question, Josephina looked over to Oakey and shook her head. "You did it correctly. I don't believe the Y is a vowel in your name, because of that E that's next to it."



Hearing another request to look over her parchment, Josephina went over toward the young ravenclaw and glanced it over. Almost about to say it looked fine, she frowned. "No... your middle name ... in your soul urge number. You've made a minor calculating error there." So in other words, her soul urge number was wrong. "Otherwise, it's good."




Again, though Gideon hadn't asked for her to look over his parchment, Josephina went by his desk and looked anyway. And nodded when she noticed it was fine, thus moving onto the next...



She frowned when she reached the desk of the Slytherin prefect, shaking her head. "No. Your last name... the A ... on the chart, A is a 1, not a 7." That was actually the case on MANY number systems, not just the Pythagorean. So obviously, his soul urge number was wrong. But the life path number was fine though.



Walking by Sierra's desk next, as Fina noticed the girl had stopped writing, she glanced over the girl's parchment and nodded when everything seemed to check out alright and then moved onto to the next...



She nodded in approval at the girl's life path number and then gazed around the classroom for any others who were finishing up. All good, it seemed.


Which meant it was time to move on from the core numbers and onto the rest of the lesson. "Now that we've had that good review of half of your core numbers, which as I mentioned before, they're important to your personal day numbers, because it is when these numbers match your personal day number that you'll feel a stronger connection to those days..."

"In order to find this personal Day number, you'll need to calculate your personal month number. Which in order to calculate that, you'll need to calculate your personal year number. For right now, I'd like you to review either independently or quietly with someone nearby about the calculations for these three numbers, which are discussed in chapters 18-20 of your text." She paused. "We'll reconvene in ten minutes."


ooc: I'll continue the lesson sometime tomorrow evening, hopefully about 7/8pm EST. In the meantime, if you'd like to actually attempt to calculate these numbers, assume the date in the RP is October 17, 2076. If Hadley made corrections to your soul urge/life path numbers, you're welcome to go back and fix them. Thank you <3.