nineteenth entry. [voice]

[awingofhope]

... Math is hard.

Can someone please help me? I don't think I'm getting it at all...

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[offallingsnow]

Having trouble, Florian?

[awingofhope]

Uh-huh.

I don't get these timeses at all.

[offallingsnow]

Ah...timeses? [times tables, she knows. It's the wording]

[awingofhope]

Oh, um. Times tables, ma'am. [Because Miss Nephry seems kind of like a teacher like Jade and you should always show respect to teachers. B|]

[offallingsnow]

[Florian must be innocent to think Jade seems like a teacher]

Oh. What about them confuses you?

[awingofhope]

[He tends not to question why everyone is so scared of him.]

Everything. [He sounds a little exasperated. Language was easy for him when considering what he had been saved for - but math was another language entirely.] How come we just can't add everything?

[offallingsnow]

[how best to go about this]

I suppose you could think of multiplication as a kind of adding.

[awingofhope]

Really?

[offallingsnow]

Yes. Give me an example and I'll try to explain it.

[awingofhope]

Um... Three times five.

[offallingsnow]

All right. What you need to do, if you want to use addition, is add five together three times.

[awingofhope]

[Give him a few minutes - he may or may not be counting it out on his fingers to make sure he's right.]

Then it's fifteen?

[offallingsnow]

You tell me.

[awingofhope]

[You can hear him doing it this time if you listen close enough.]

It is!

[offallingsnow]

Did that help you understand it better?

[awingofhope]

Uh-huh!

Can you help me the next time I don't understand too?