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01-24-2009, 02:04 PM
| | |  Basic Arithmancy Lesson 1
As you step through the Arithmancy classroom doors, you see wooden desks and chairs arranged in a circle. Professor Shackleton has provided a number of cushions in a myriad of colors and textures that are stacked by the door for you to choose from to match your comfort and liking. Two walls are filled with thick wooden shelves, filled with a seemingly endless number of Arithmancy texts and the occasional Ancient Runes and Divination reference. The other two walls of the room are covered in framed pictures and posters of a very old man doing mathematical calculations, a map of the Mediterranean, a witch carrying a large wooden number seven, a chart converting letters to numbers, and many more pictures with a number at the top and people exhibiting various qualities below.
When you look to the front of the room, you see a tall, blonde-haired woman in powder blue knee-length robes sitting behind a desk made of dark angelique wood. On the desk is a small placard reading "Professor Macadrian A. Shackleton - Arithmancy," as well as a small stack of thin, leather-bound booklets, an assortment of papers and quills, several copies of the class textbook, and a small pouch that she keeps very close by her left hand. She smiles welcomingly at you as you enter the classroom and makes a small gesture for you to take a seat in one of the many desks in the circle. OOC: This lesson is for first, second, and third years ONLY. Any students in fourth year and above who post will be dismissed. | |
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Shana kind of got it but wasn't sure if she was right,she put her hand up Professer Shackleton is it because there's Addition,Subtraction,Multiplucation,And Division.
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Originally Posted by lemondrop13  Professor Shackleton fought back a snort, as she grinned, quite pleased with the trickery of her question. Turning toward Theo, Professor Shackleton explained, "You are right in that there is more than one method of addition, while your reasoning, though entertaining, is incorrect. Two points for thinking outside the box though."
She explained to the class, "How would you feel if I told you there were, in fact, four ways to add in Arithmancy?" John smiled and said to the Professor "I would think you were having us on Professor." He didn't say it rudely but he was sure there was only one Addition.
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Originally Posted by Zellanna Lina glanced over to Sarah, who seemed to be doodling as well. Small and silent she managed to move over next to Sarah and peeked at her image. Sarah glanced sideways as a first year moved to sit next to her and looked at her drawing.Smilig she tilted it slightly for her to see.It was nothing special,just smily faces.She was doing it to try and cheer herself up.
Hearing the next question from the proffessor Sarah's head snapped up to watch the teacher talk.
How many additions are there? Strange question.Raising her hand she answered... "Ummm one? Or is that too simple and it's a trick question?"
She wasn't sure if the teacher would appreciate her asking a question back.
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Theo laughed. He ad gotten more pooints. And he was right. "Four ways? Do you add them differently. Like squidge all the numbers together? Or just add them, like 12 and 17 is...." he quickly counted it on his fingers, "29."
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Lina looked confused for a moment, then thudded her head on the table. She raised her hand and tried to keep from mumbling into the table. "Simple addition, reduction... Unless you're adding in different bases, I'm not sure what else. Though I still say addition is addition, since two plus two is still four. Just with reduction or whatnot ten can be one plus zero and thus is actually one."
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"4 ways?! I'd feel... well I don't know. How... 4 ways?!" Jake replied. "Why do you ask? Is there four ways?"
Jake sat, staring at the wall opposite him, trying to make things click together in his head. It makes no sense.
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Originally Posted by Esme Sakura raised her hand and said, "I agree, with them one way of addition."
Looking over at Jack she noticed his look and motioned for him to come over, she'd help if she could. Jack moved over quietly "How do you do this?" he asked quietly
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Cam's confusing expression was still on his face. 4 ways to add in Arithmancy? Again, it was sooooo strange and weird. He glanced at the other students in class and then back to Professor Shackleton. Might have been a trick question too. Oh well, he wrote in his parchment four ways to add in Arithmancy. Once that was done he looked back at her.
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I get, that's a cute question, I think Hedwig18 is right, that makes sense, but what is the 4th
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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMcKay Sarah glanced sideways as a first year moved to sit next to her and looked at her drawing.Smilig she tilted it slightly for her to see.It was nothing special,just smily faces.She was doing it to try and cheer herself up. Lina reached over and drew hair around one of the smiley faces, much like her own. Then the smiley face stuck her tongue out at Sarah, though in a friendly way. She grinned to the other girl and showed her the images she was drawing of crabs. They didn't look real, however, but almost cute. Little circles with triangles for legs, not even attached to the body.
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Originally Posted by liammoiser John smiled and said to the Professor "I would think you were having us on Professor." He didn't say it rudely but he was sure there was only one Addition. Professor Shackleton chuckled, "Believe it or not, I am not 'having you on.' There are in fact four ways to add in Arithmancy."
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Originally Posted by Jenster Theo laughed. He ad gotten more pooints. And he was right. "Four ways? Do you add them differently. Like squidge all the numbers together? Or just add them, like 12 and 17 is...." he quickly counted it on his fingers, "29." "Excellent! You're thinking along the right path! Take another point!"
"The fours ways to add in Arithmancy are adding across, reducing as your go, adding down, and adding double digits. I will explain each of these, but what you all must realize is that the main idea behind the manipulation of numbers is to find the single base number, which we call a root number. This root number is often a reduced number that comes from a double-digit number. And that is perhaps why many of you thought there was only one type of addition. While there may be only one final answer, there are four ways of getting there."
Professor Shackleton took out her wand and drew numbers in the air, "Let me give you an example of reducing. Taking the number 14, I add the single digits comprising that number together. So I add one and four to get five, which is my reduced root number. Does that make sense?"
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Before Sarah had finished answering the professor gave the answer herself.No-one had got it right it appeared.
4 ways?!
"I don't understand how there can be Professor," she muttered.
Listening to the explanation,Sarah nodded.Actually that bit did make sense.She was following so far.
As she was listening the first year added some hair to her drawing...which promptly poked it's tongue out at her.Giggling silently she smiled back to the other girl,Lina,and saw she had drawn crabs.Quite good they were to.
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Lyra was a bit confused. She raised her hand "Do the four ways relate to the fact that the numbers 1-8 all have 3 letters under them in the textbook?" She was just guessing, but it made sense in her head.
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"How can there be four?" Natka asked, frowning.
Did the order of adding up numbers in Arithmacy matter, then? Or was it something else that created four different ways of adding things?
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"Yes, I understand what you're saying Professor." Sasori said.
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Originally Posted by lemondrop13 Professor Shackleton chuckled, "Believe it or not, I am not 'having you on.' There are in fact four ways to add in Arithmancy."
"Excellent! You're thinking along the right path! Take another point!"
"The fours ways to add in Arithmancy are adding across, reducing as your go, adding down, and adding double digits. I will explain each of these, but what you all must realize is that the main idea behind the manipulation of numbers is to find the single base number, which we call a root number. This root number is often a reduced number that comes from a double-digit number."
Professor Shackleton took out her wand and drew numbers in the air, "Let me give you an example of reducing. Taking the number 14, I add the single digits comprising that number together. So I add one and four to get five, which is my reduced root number. Does that make sense?" Lyra raised her hand "Oh, OK. But why isn't that one called adding across?"
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Miranda frowned, raising her hand. "I guess that makes sense, professor, but then couldn't you end up with different answers every time you use the same numbers?"
She was getting very confused. Maybe Arithmancy was not going to be a strong point.
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James' eyes widened in astonishment. Four ways? Wow, that was way more than he thought? What had they taught him in muggle school? He nodded, though, after listening to the professor. Well, what she said made a little since, once he thought about it. He supposed he'd have to be more open-minded in the future.
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Theo nodded. He understood, slightly. Whether he would remember in an hour was a different matter. He smiled, and watched the teacher. He wondered if she liked numbers, or just if she taught it.
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Herminny quickly jotted down the addtitional notes on her parchment with a confused look on her face thinking nothing is making any sense anymore
She took a seccond look and got it the seccond time arround
and jotted that into her notes as well
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Ohh... that kinda made sense... Jake quickly wrote that down, remembering that that someone had mentioned that.
He wiped the ink off his had onto a spare piece of parchment and nodded slowly, almost reassuring himself as he ran it through his head, also indicating to the professor in case she really needed them to tell her.
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Originally Posted by lemondrop13 Professor Shackleton took out her wand and drew numbers in the air, "Let me give you an example of reducing. Taking the number 14, I add the single digits comprising that number together. So I add one and four to get five, which is my reduced root number. Does that make sense?" John was starting to understand, normaly it would take him a lot longer to understand but this Professor was teaching him in a way he like so he smiled and said. "Yes Professor, I understand now." he then thought about something he lifted his big eyes upto the Professor so they were looking straight into each other eyes. "But what about Multiply and Division? Or don't they have anything to do with it?"
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Professor Shackleton took out her wand and drew numbers in the air, "Let me give you an example of reducing. Taking the number 14, I add the single digits comprising that number together. So I add one and four to get five, which is my reduced root number. Does that make sense?"
Ixy scribbled down everything that the teacher said and truely understood about half of it.
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