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SPOILER!!: Marigold, Angel, Simon, Hazel, Alexa, Sophie, Grayson, Adi, Ethan, Lux, Penelope, Leah, Lucy Quote:
Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104  Marigold scribbled some notes down and then looked at the numbers. Wow, there were some really looooong numbers. Eeeehhhhhh. She decided she would add them all up first and reduce them, then look up the meanings. She could get the addition out of the way.
Did she add them all right? Lolita began to walk around the room and check the students' work. First she came to Marigold. "Bueno, chica. All correct." Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel wasn't really sure what she had to do but she would give this a go anyway, because she didn't want to get into trouble for not doing the work, she wasn't sure that she could do anything with the numbers but well she decided she would at least try.
Angel was a bit confused about if the Professor wanted her to add on to this but she decided that she would as well so she continued with her work.
Angel raised her hand. "Professor have I done this right?" Angel had even decided to find the meaning, she hoped that the Professor didn't mind her doing that. She heard a question behind her. Again Lolita was surprised to find that it was Angel Valentine. After scrutinising her work, Lolita said, "Sí, all correct Miss Valentine." Quote:
Originally Posted by Emms Simon beamed. Go Snakes! They had offered answers and they were both correct. He glanced over at Ethan and gave his mate a thumb's up. Then he did that with Grayson too. Their Head of House would be proud of them. Uh-huh, he was sure of it. With a couple numbers on the board, Simon set to work on figuring out the numbers.
Alright.
Simon blinked. He couldn't go any further using the reduction method as he had achieved a Master Number. What made a number a master number? He'd have to turn to page four in his textbook later on. Huh, those two seemed easy enough, thought the boy as he moved onto the next example. When he saw this number, his jaw dropped. That was a BIG number. Alright, deep breath. He took a deep breath in and then set to work.
Glancing at his answers, he noticed that the way without subdivision was much simpler. Huh. He didn't know they could do that without subdivision. Cool. His blue eyes widened to the size of saucers when he saw the next number. WAIT. 2519980? They had to use the Reduction Method on THAT?
GULP.
With all of his answers completed, Simon made sure to continue using the Reduction Method without subdivisions from now on. Sweet merlin, it was much easier without the silly subdivisions. On to the subdivision king. "You will have noticed that you get the same answers with or without subdivision. Therefore it is merely a matter of personal preference which method you employ." His answers were right, so he seemed to be competent in both ways. Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlEcho63 Hazel dipped her quill into her inkwell and scribbled down some notes as the professor explained the reduction method. She decided to give it a go.
Was that right? She certainly hoped so. She never knew Arithmancy could be so fun! Nearby was a young Hufflepuff. "Thorough work, Miss Rawthorne. Good." Who was next? Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo
Spot on?
Welp, she'd take it. Naturally she already thought she'd be right because she had eyes and could spot differences but spot on was something entirely different and totally meant she'd done something awesome. Lex looked down at her parchment again. Eight? Hmmm...Well, actually she supposed that kinda made sense. "I see your point Professor."
It seemed they'd moved into a portion of the class Lex was more familar with. Reducing numbers was something she'd learned back in her Second Year maybe...or something like that. The years had begun to mesh for the Gryffindor. Arithmancy had just always been THERE giving her headaches.
This though, wasn't as much of a headache. Nope.
Done and with less uncertainty than everything else she'd done in this class. Ah yes, one of two prefects at this lesson. The professor looked over the girl's work before pronouncing it fit. "Sí, well done." Text Cut: Sophie, Grayson Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Ohh, this actually seemed pretty easy! Sophie copied down the list of numbers they were meant to reduce.
621
83
12345
444
2519980
10101
She'd just sit right here by Grayson, but she really didn't need someone's help. This was just quick addition, yes? She thought so, at least. She glanced around, suddenly getting the feeling she was missing something. Even still, she quickly added up the first three numbers. Three at a time sounded manageable.
621
6 + 2 + 1 = 9
83
8 + 3 = 11
1 + 1 = 2
12345
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15
1 + 5 = 6
Pause.
"Are we supposed to reduce that eleven?" she asked Grayson. Quote:
Originally Posted by hermionesclone She was going to keep it in mind? Good. The boy liked to think he was being wise with his words, for reasons that were entirely his own. Still. It was nice. And it could end up coming in handy for this girl sooooo you're welcome in advance, Newell.
Another good thing was that she was staying. Why? Because now he had an excuse to work with her on this piece of work. Pity that they would actually have to do the work and not just hang out. Less time to talk and whatnot. And speaking of work, they were going to get started with the Reduction Method. Grayson had only picked up his quill and dipped it into his ink pot when..........
............ Soph. Who had gone off ahead already. Sweet Merlin, that was fast.
At her question, however, Grayson leaned a liiiiiittle bit closer to take a better look at her parchment. Eleven? "I say keep it as eleven. Professor mentioned something about Master Numbers and not reducing them." He shrugged and looked over at his textbook. "Uh huh. Keep it. And if I'm wrong, you have one over me." Win win situation for her, it seemed like.
Since his fellow Slytherin had done the first three, Grayson slid her work over towards him, flashing her a chaaaaaaarming smile as he did so. And then he started scribbling down the calculations for the last three numbers, all of which were long. Like that second to last one! Jeez, give a guy a break.
"What do you think?" Were they right? Were they not? Was she planning on hexing him for scribbling in her work? HMMMM? Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana
Sophie raised her eyebrows. "Ohh, you know, it would be kind of fun to have one over you," she said. "But I agree with you. I think it should be eleven, too." She made the corrections on the parchment then waited while he did the last three numbers himself. See, they'd divided that up quite nicely. She looked down at the work they'd done. "Perfect," she said. Did he expect any less? They'd been through this the first time they met. They knew they were perfect, so of course when they worked on something together, it'd be flawless. She smirked at him but also glanced down at the parchment hoping they didn't accidentally make some mistake. That would blow her theory straight out the water.
Too bad this wasn't social hour... And then there was this interesting pairing. It appeared there had been some corrections if the scribbles were any indication. Finally deciphering their thought process, the woman said, "Well done, you two. Correct." She gave Miss Newell a small wink. "You should work with this one more often, Mr Whitlock. She improves you." Her work here was done. Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 The Reduction Method. Now this was something Adi understood, having read about this in his textbook. It was pretty much something simple but he never the less paid attention to the explanations and examples given by his classmates and the Professor. Now it was time to get to work! Another one who seemed to have figured things out. "Indeed, all correct Mr Rehman." Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordred Oh would you look at that! Three Slytherins to answer in a row. For once, he felt he was one of the smart guys in the room. Yeeeeaah! Ethan didn’t forget to acknowledge his bros though. He gave a thumbs up at Simon, and a wink—well…more of a blink to Grayson. He needs to work on the winking thing. Mhmm.
And so! Onto the activity. Well, this should be fun. Without wasting any more time, the boy scribbled down his calculation.
…aaaand done! "Correct, Ethan," was all she managed to say to the Slytherin. How many different ways could she really be expected to come up with to just say yes? Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy Oh, right of course. She had to add to it more. Lux wasn't exactly sure what to put, so she decided to leave it for the moment. The lesson was moving on anyway, and it was important for her to keep track of everything that was going on. All the new information was added to her notes for later reference.
Okay, so they had to reduce numbers through breaking them up and adding them together. That seemed simple enough. Lux began working out the problems on the board:
Hopefully this was correct. Another Hufflepuff? They were everywhere today. Lolita barely prevented herself from rolling her eyes. Well your work seems satisfactory, Miss Carrington." Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin Penelope copied the notes on the board that explained the reduction method, and added some of her own notes to it.
This didn't seem too hard. It was just simple addition.
Penelope looked over her work, checking for mistakes. Finding none, she looked at the meanings of the numbers and the master numbers in the textbook. Another thorough worker. It made things much easier when Lolita wanted to check work. "Bueno, Miss Wright. All correct." Quote:
Originally Posted by nanyjj Case one. Case two. Case three. Leah wrote down notes about the cases and looked up to find super long numbers waiting to be reduced. She was a tad bit confused by all these adding but she still gave a try anyway.
Merlin. That was hard. Just a simple addition, but it was still difficult for the second year. She dipped her quill into her ink pot once more before continuing.
That was better. Hey, what was that about the master number stuff? Leah looked at her textbook and saw the part about the master numbers. She scanned her notes and immediately found. Her. Mistakes. Grr.
If she had any more mistakes the Hufflepuff could not find them. Leah read the descriptions of these numbers up and scribbled down some more notes. This was a case of work being hard to follow because there was so much of it. Eyes beginning to cross by the end, the professor still pronounced it good. "Correct, well done." Quote:
Originally Posted by Chiara Lucy started to take some notes about the Reduction method..
621
6+2+1=9
83= 11
12345=15=1+5=6
444= 12=1+2= 3
2519980=34= 3+4=7
10101=3
Done..Lucy hoped that she had done accurately the calculations.. Miss Petersfield was next up. "That all looks good." SPOILER!!: Jasmine, Agatha, Nigel Quote:
Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Jasmine's head popped up when the Professor began to talk about the Reduction Method. She listened to her classmates give their explanations and took notes when Profesor Domingo confirmed their answers. It all seemed pretty clear to her which was the first time that Jasmine had been able to say that in Arithmancy. She hoped that she was not missing something.
Now it was time to practice the method and Jasmine copied the numbers to be reduced onto her parchment.
Reviewing her answers, Jasmine thought that she had done everything correctly. Hopefully she had. She sat back and waited for confirmation from Professor Domingo. In the meantime, Jasmine looked at her book again. She reviewed the number meanings and then took a glance at the Master numbers. Next up Miss Guidry. "You seem to have miscalculated 444. Try again." That's what made this hard: the math was so simple that people didn't take their time. Text Cut: Agatha, Nigel Quote:
Originally Posted by Hey Ju Agatha listened to what her housemates had to say, but she didn't pay attention to the woman because she was talking way to much. And about numbers, which made it all worse. Agatha had no clue what was going on anymore, until she saw some writings on the board.
Well, she could do that. By herself. Without Nigel's help. Hmph.
Uhhhhh.....
Truth be told, she had to count some of those numbers on her fingers. And that massive one... she would definitely get that wrong, so she decided to use ask Nigel to do the rest. "Here, I did part of it. It's your turn." Quote:
Originally Posted by Meizzner Oh she was finally talking to him. Well, what was with the change of heart. Is she annoyed at some else now. Or just trying to prove that she could do this by herself without his help. He was betting on the second one because it would involve not taking to him and less chance of turning red and huffing again. Which was hilarious.
Oh it was his turn now. "Well thank you for going first and not staring" Not going to let that one go yet. "Uh, well i guess even you need a Editor. One or two of these were wrong" Even he could do this math. Just forget he is in the classroom when proof come around. Then the wonder pair... "Your answers for 12345, 444, and 2519980 are not finished yet, chicos." Perhaps they knew that already, but she was here now and may as well point it out. "If you are finished, feel free to get up and move around a bit. No estudiantes shall be freezing in my classroom." Which reminded her... time to refresh the Hot Air Charms. She whipped out her wand to do just that.
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