I have no math and I must scream

[conuly]

Doing math in the living room, trying to get it done before running to the orthodontist (15 minute trip there in car service, 5 minute visit, 20 minutes waiting for the bus to go home, half hour bus ride followed by 10 minute walk... geez), and Ana needs help.

So I'm walking her through converting ratios to the unit rate, and what does this mean, and if you find out that the unit rate is THIS much, how much is THAT many, and Eva is chiming in on every one of them, which, you can imagine, frustrated me no end.

Finally I get Ana situated and turn to Eva and say "Here, let me start you on spelling, you must be done with your math".

"Oh, no, I don't understand this at all!"

She doesn't understand fourth grade math, but she's whizzing through sixth grade math. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE GIRLS.

Comments

[akamine_chan]

Your subject line gives me severe creeps, just like the story. *shudders*

[conuly]

Once read, always remembered, right?

[akamine_chan]

I have a Yuletide story bookmarked that is supposed to be every more creepy/horrifying than the original, but I haven't worked up the courage to read it yet.

[conuly]

Why would somebody write such a thing?!

[kyrielle]

LOL!!!! That's awesome. Honestly, though, some things like basic algebra made sense to me before, say, fractions did.

[conuly]

LOL! I could understand that, except that the questions Eva was answering had to do with multiplication and the ones she was SUPPOSED to be answering ALSO had to do with multiplication.

[zhelana]

Clearly 6th grade math is something to be proud of while 4th grade math is just something to be put up with.

[conuly]

Who the heck knows?

Ana has a harder time with math than her sister does, though, so by the end of this we both kinda wanted to toss Eva out of the nearest window. (Whatever, nearly everybody can survive a two story drop.)

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

You totally win the Internet today, for that subject-heading.

Nobody understands girls. Not girls themselves; not those of us who once were girls... nobody. It's not *you*; it's not *them*; it's just part of The Way of Things. Very annoying, I know, but there it is.

[conuly]

This insight is perhaps a little less helpful than you believe.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Oh, no - because I don't believe it's helpful at all. Girls being incomprehensible is one of those things for which there is no help.