✨✖️📖📐Can a Disney Princess learn Mathematics?📐📖➗✨
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Princess Aurora in the "House of Mouse"
Instead of going to sleep, she sat down at her pretty little table, took up her white swan quill, and set herself to solving the math problems on the precious scrap of vellum before her....
Some things came to her naturally: singing, playing the recorder, kindness, patience in sewing...
But numbers...and anything having to do with numbers...that was another thing entirely. Aurora privately wondered if there was a reason princesses weren't taught math or alchemy or the workings of the world; maybe they couldn't grasp it.
Still, she forced herself to pay attention when the old castle treasurer patiently demonstrated the magic of adding and subtracting amounts with tally sticks and abaci, and the castle carpenter showed her the measurement of forms with string and weights.
When she tried to do the exact same problems on her own, however, they never made sense. The numbers in front of her and the little counting lines seemed to multiply of their own volition. Her ability to draw was negligble and her squares often looked like mush....
Aurora drew a tiny ugly scribble of sheep. Then she drew four more. She counted them. There were five. She drew two more, father away. Now there were six.
Maybe seven? Eight?
She tried it on her fingers, pretending each one was a warm white ball of wool.
Did you count the beginning one and the last one, too? Or was it like pages of a book, where you didn't count both ends?
She spent ten more minutes trying to make the two groups of sheep add up. She was pretty sure it was around seven, but the lack of precision was giving her a headache.
Finally, she threw herself on her bed in frustration.
From pages 28-30 of the paperback version of Once Upon a Dream, of the Twisted Tales series, by Liz Braswell
It is later revealed that the reason why Aurora can't do math is because she is trapped inside her own dream world. This is no doubt a form of torture on the part of Maleficent, who has escaped to Aurora's dream world after Philip ran her through the heart with his sword which was enchanted by the good fairies. Once she is freed from the dream world, she can understand math!