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Originally Posted by Macavity  Hmm five words about himself to use in comparison...not as easy as one might think since he always had trouble describing himself...never wanting to brag or such. Well captain would work, he mused to himself writing it down before adding Bennett on top with the calculations he had previously done in another class. Loyal might fit as well, he added remembering something that had been said of him at one point in time. Thinking it over a bit longer, Simon eventually had three more words that would fit including one he was sure Josh would agree on for him.
Back to pacing around the room and checking numbers, it was Josephina's turn for her head to hurt. Though she did ENJOY this stuff, sometimes even when you enjoy something, it didn't matter and it could still hurt your head. Huh? Oh, right, checking calculations. She hadn't even noticed she'd been staring over the Gryffindor Captain's parchment for like five minutes without saying anything.
"Good, good, except... no wait... You've miscalculated captain and bookworm, I think...." She said staring again at the seventh year's parchment, before moving onward. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom ANY sentence? That seemed very vague. Alex tapped his chin a few times with his quill before he decided that he'd go with something super easy, since this was his first arithmancy class and all. He'd already done calculations for five words, so why not USE those?
He smiled and admired his handiwork. This arithmancy stuff really wasn't that bad. Not at all!
As he looked at his work, a question popped into his head and he raised his hand. "Exclamation points don't have number values, right? Just the letters?" he asked. He was PRETTY sure they didn't, but he just wanted to make sure he got this right. Hearing a question from a rather tall boy, the one with striking familiarity to Sierra, she nodded. "That would be correct, punctuation marks don't carry any number values..." Huh? Wait, a second, Sierra described herself as a twin, did she? "Greingoth..." Yea, she was slow. Or she just lacked coffee in her caffeine system. "You. You're related, aren't you?" And way for her to not speak in complete sentences. Quote:
Originally Posted by McFeisty Alright calculations in a sentence - hmm, that sounded interesting. And again no reducing.
She chewed her lip slightly.
She new what she wanted to do, because one it was simple and two it was Shakespeare.
"Can we try calculating a sentence now if we like? I have one I think would probably work, its Shakespeare - and from Macbeth, anyways its line To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow," she explained biting her lip. Well, she was going to try and do it anyway.
Right, moving on. "Yes, dear, that's good." Very good, indeed. But by seventh year, hopeful their mistakes in calculations would be less frequent. Quote:
Originally Posted by nogoodforyou Her sentence was good then!
But... waaaait. What? "Oops," Helena whispered, quickly looking back at her calculations. Uhhh this was embarrassing! She must have accidentally added a one or something. And of course, her face turned completely red. "I should do that." Calculate each word separately, as professor Hadley told her to. Tossing a small comforting smile at the young Slytherin who seemed embarrassed, she hoped she wouldn't be. Mistakes did happen, after all. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
Not that Kurumi wasn’t flattered that Professor Hadley was using her work as an example for her classmates to follow if they were struggling, it was more of being singled out that startled her. She remembered her first year during Muggle Studies when she had drawn a rough sketch of a baseball field and labeled the various stick figures in their given positions. Professor Zookara had blown that up as well for people to look at as a reference, and she had wanted to crawl under the table and hide.
The desire hadn’t changed.
Locking her gaze on her parchment, but pretty sure she felt eyes trying to burn their way through the back of her head, Kurmi picked up her quill again and started working on the next set of calculations. It wasn’t exactly a sentence that popped into her mind, but Professor Hadley had said anything they wanted, and she hoped that that included proverbs.
Oh! Two 7’s! That was a good sign, right? Seven was one of the most powerful magical numbers, so having them two of them in her final result meant something, yes? Was it just her or did Kurumi seem ODDLY SHY about her work being shared in front of the whole class?! OH wait, perhaps she should have asked the thirteen year old, but she didn't think it would be an issue. Who didn't like to have their work showcased afterall? Other than herself when she was that age.
"Nice job again, dear," Fina said, quickly moving on. No need to add more pressure to the girl by lingering over work. Quote:
Originally Posted by aaetha Ariana smiled happily to hear that she was right. It was true her sentence was short, but it was also true that she didn't want to do a bunch of work and then find out she didn't get the the idea at all. Now that she knew what to do, she could try more complicated sentences. Hmm.... She liked the seventh year's idea of Shakespeare, being muggleborn she had to memorize twenty five lines in sixth grade of muggle school, so she might as well put that to use!
Dipping her quill into her ink, Ariana got to work calculating a bit of Shakespeare! Moving on to a Ravenclaw, who like another one, liked to use the same word in the chosen sentence. Eh, whatever, she hadn't said they couldn't... BUT what? "Um dear, your second Romeo there, you've missed a digit." Surely the girl would notice, right? She seemed adept enough. Quote:
Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu So lesson learned: Ancient Greeks were mean. Why have two words for the same thing? Honestly.
Ugh. Calculations.
She really shouldn't, but every Arithmancy lesson, Ellie hoped she could avoid the math. It was silly of her to be so optimistic. She should've learned so by now.
Anyway five words synonymous to who she was? Uhhhmmmm.
And all those were complete facts about her. Factual = synonymous, right? Right.
So now a sentence?
Smirk.
Now would be an ideal time for Ellie to lay her head on her desk. And she did so, consequently covering (and probably smudging) her work. But she didn't care. That was too much brain exertion. She should've picked a shorter sentence. Regardless of her original intentions. It wasn't worth it.
Ellie's brain signing out. Now's the time when Professor Hadley was both flattered and simultaneously wanted to go hide under her professor desk. "I... Miss Stone... I... those calculations are..." She had nothing to add. "Perfect. Yes. I wouldn't change a thing." Smile sliding onto her face, she slid over toward the next student's work. Quote:
Originally Posted by princess of*hp* Theodore flipped his book open to Chapter Two, studying the numbers and letters until he believed he had gotten the hang of it all. It didn't look too hard. It was simple mathematics, for the most part. Now... for the word choice... what words to use in coordination with himself? Well, there was curly. That was obvious. Then there was... Ravenclaw, which was synonymous with intelligence, creativity, and curiosity all in one. Now, three more words. THREE MORE WORDS. He began drumming the desk with his fingers impatiently until it came to him: spaz! That was another obvious one that he should have grasped quickly. He thought up the last two on the spot ( cat for his new pet, Bree, and lion for his friend, Brae) and began to get to work.
As Kurumi Hollingberry's work was displayed to the class, Theodore peered over the shoulders of a few students to take a look at her. She was quite the smart cookie; he almost wondered why she hadn't been placed into Ravenclaw. But alas, there was no time for thinking of the new teacher's pet at the moment. Now, they were onto sentences! Dipping his quill into his ink pot anew, he began to write once more. What would be the perfect sentence for him to use? Then, it hit him: I am an eccentric. Easy enough, right? "Same for you..." She said, in acknowledgement of another unfamiliar boy's work. "Good work." Short and sweet, but it was a good way to learn. Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn Eh...Cookie girl. Narrowing her eyes slightly, the Slytherin stared at the Gryffindor k's work that was now on the board. What was Kurokawa?
Having finished the first part, Evelyn made herself comfortable in her seat (or at least as comfortable as one can get in these seats) and looked around the room. It didn't take long until Professor Hadley had given them the green light to continue on to sentences rather than individual words. Wait, was that a green light? Or more of a general 'we'll be doing this after I lecture you more about it' type thing.
Yet, that lecture hadn't been said. In fact, she was already helping people who started. Hmm. Glancing down to her own notebook, she huffed a sigh as she started to tap her quill quietly on the desk again.
If she thought words were hard to think of...than trying to think of a sentence was way worse. But, she thought of the most true sentence there could be in the world. It was so true, it had to be written down in CAPITAL letters. Was Evelyn no longer going by her best friend's surname? Had the inseparable pair had a falling out over the summer? Noticing the looks Destiny kept giving toward Evelyn, Fina was sure it was something similar.
And then the phrase. Oh there was definitely something going on between the two and it was probably over something petty like chocolate too.
But now wasn't the time for personal vendettas. "Nice work, Evelyn." Yup, yup. The Slytherin was accurate with her numbers. Quote:
Originally Posted by aaetha Ariana then decided to try a couple more lines- couldn’t hurt to practice! She saw that only a couple people were actually doing the sentence practice right now, most were still on or just finishing their words. This in fact made her feel very smart, and determined to be even better! So now the next three lines of Juliet’s famous speech would be… number-itized.
Whew! That was a lot of math! Ariana decided she was done practicing, and wouldn’t do anything but what she was told for the rest of the class. The only weird thing she noticed was a recurring of the number 19, again and again. But in the end she decided not to bring it up or anything, probably just happened to everyone! Huh? The Ravenclaw couldn't get ROMEO right but these long sentences she got right? "Nice job this time. Just correct your previous sentence and you're all set." Quote:
Originally Posted by fanficfanatict Selina listened to her Professor speak to the class and smiled when Kurumi was the first to finish. She always was the most apt in all of her classes. Turning to her friend she mouthed good work and then returned to her own five traits. Her parchment was neat and well-organized, but her math skills were lacking. She knew it was only a matter of time until the clean parchment became chicken scratch.
"Is this correct, ma'am?" Hearing a young female's voice and a question, Hadley peeked over at the parchment in question and studied it for a moment. "Um... yes... and no... I've asked you to specifically not reduce, because with paragrams, reducing to a single digit is not important, nor is it necessary. With writing a paragram, you'll see that it comes to what the numerical values of each sentence is that matters most." Hadley started. "So with your sentence, you'll want to go back and add the values for each word without any single-digit reduction." Please, it was the only time they didn't have to reduce. They should take advantage of it. Quote:
Originally Posted by McFeisty
Being her usual 'weird' self, Kyle decided to do another sentence, one using her original words - because this would challenge the lesson and she'd get better and she wanted to be better. She also wanted to make Ravenclaw's points go UP UP UP this term like SKY high upness. Y'know? Good stuff!
And again, the girl was quite on top of her numbers. "Nice job, once more," Fina nodded at the seventh year. SPOILER!!: Hufflepuff Prefects Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockhartian Whaaaaat?! She wanted them dead? MORE NUMBERS?! ALL TOGETHER?!
So, yes, his suddenly widened eyes could be seen very clearly, but he composed himself and kind of smirked. He'd chose very good by moving over to sit behind Kurumi, because she'd done a fantastic work. Except, he'd been through all the trouble of moving over to that seat, only for Hadley to place the exercise on the board.
Ha. Thanks, Hadley.
And...a phrase, well, he could come up with one...probably.
And a smirk was on his face. He knew the phrase well, and it served him as a reminder, too, never mind the fact that he wasn't famous yet. Quote:
Originally Posted by grangerfan8 So maybe sitting beside the open window wasn't the wisest of ideas, cause before the class had a chance to get boring or difficult, she was already looking out of it. At the ship mostly as she let her mind wander aimlessly. It wasn't until she heard students giving responses and shuffling papers that she pulled herself out of her reverie and turned her attention to the board.
Oh. They were doing things. She flipped through her journal and pulled out her quill, catching the tail end of the questions answered while scanning the she figured out a bit of what they were doing. Didn't look too hard. Maybe.
Arya took a moment to find words that just spoke of her before scribbling them down and set to working on each one.
Hm. Interesting... her name and cheerful equaled out, funny that. Heh. Arya grinned at her work, not entirely sure if it was done correctly, but not too fussed since she'd at least attempted it without suffering a headache. Leaning back in her seat, she glanced around the classroom to see if.... she wouldn't be much help, but she could still look around the classroom. "Yes my dears, you're both very careful with those numbers, which has paid off." Fina nodded at the pair of Badger Prefects. "Nice work to both of you." And nice statement, Lockhart  . Quote:
Originally Posted by Emishlon Jamie rubbed his forehead, as the lesson was already giving him a headache. It didn't help that the professor was speaking complete mumbo jumbo, with words that he had hardly heard of. Once he heard the intruction to look in their textbooks, Jamie opened to chapter two and studied it briefly. Hmm, it made it a bit clearer.
Five words to describe himself? Hmm, how to describe someone so amazing in five words? Okay, that was easy enough. Jamie nodded at the work he had just written down then looked at his textbook closely to write a whole sentence. Jeeeeze, this would take ages. That sounded just about right. However he had absolutely no idea what the numbers by the words actually meant. Ah well. Grinning, the third year looked to the front waiting for what to do next. Turns out, he wasn't as bad at Arithmancy as he thought!
....That is unless he got all this calculation wrong. That would be very annoying. Stopping at the next student's parchment, Josephina was pleased to see he got the addition part correct... but... "Um dear, you've forgot to practice adding the total value of each of those five words there." Yup, yup. Simple mistake. No worries though; it probably wouldn't take him long to do given his awesome calculation abilities. Quote:
Originally Posted by Deatheater 2251 Something told Connor to recheck his math on his sentance, he was sure he had left something out or miscalculated somewhere. So he crossed out his mistake and redid the calculations again.
Yeah he was sure that was right Noticing the Slytherin nearby had crossed out his sentence calculations, she tilted her head as she looked it over again. "Um... You've missed another digit. A 9 from the 'R' in dream," Hadley nodded at the boy. Other than that, he was good. Quote:
Originally Posted by MyPatronusIsaMoose OOooh now the class was starting to make sense. Oakey had awoken fully just so he could pay even closer attention to what would happen next in the class. he grabbed his quill and parchment and started to write down his words and numbers
Something was strange about these equations to Oakey, he looked at his scar shaped like the roman numeral 4, then he looked back at his notes, then back to his hand, and back to his notes again, something was up. 4 out of the 6 answers he wrote ended in the number 4 that was indeed strange. Oh well Oakey thought to himself at least they didn't all end in the number 4. Oakey took one more look at his notes...AH! 4 out of 6! Only 4 out of 6 of his answers! THIS WAS REALLY STRANGE!
Just as Hadlley asked earlier about what was a coincidence. This most surely passed off as one. What were the chances that 4 would show up so often in his equations. Oakey continued on with the assignment and wrote his sentence.
GAH! again the numbers added up with the second digit being 4!
When Oakey went to see the Professor earlier about his scar, he was pleased to hear how awesome the number 4 was. Oakey actually took pride in having the scar.
BUT THIS WAS JUST WEIRDING HIM OUT! Oakey raised his hand in hopes Hadley would come to his aide. Ummmm, Look at all the 4's this added up to Oakey pointed to his first part of the assignment. What's even stranger about it is that only 4 of the 6 added up to those totals. He then pointed to his Sentence It happened again here. Please tell me I made a mistake.
He looked back to HARVEY and BLUDGERS and noticed how they both equaled 34. Oakey remembers it well. Harvey being viciously beaten by those jinxed bludgers, this just made him worry even more. Coincidence Oakey thought to himself. Noticing the look on the adorable first year puffs face, Fina walked over and studied his parchment, shaking her head. "It looks correct to me, but one thing though, with your sentence... if when writing an actual paragram, you'll want the numbers to equate better, you might need to add the 'g' on feelin'" She suggested. Maybe, maybe not. Depends. Quote:
Originally Posted by affy7ann Tayla worked silently as Professor Hadley instructed the class. She really liked the teacher, but she wasn't as confident with Arithmancy as she was with most of her other classes. Though Tayla received good marks, even in Muggle school she struggled with numbers.
She furrowed her eyebrows and practiced, hoping Professor Hadley wouldn't notice how confused she was at the moment. She just needed to keep her head down... "Reduce? What does she mean by 'do not reduce'? Perhaps the sum? Ugh..." she thought. Tayla's head throbbed while she tried to concentrate. "Paragrams...Pythegorean...are they different or the same?"
Tayla sighed as she heard Professor Hadley saying they were all doing great. "I wish I were, too..." But she didn't want to show her work unless she felt more confident it was right. "Okay," she whispered bracingly to herself. She sat up straight and tried to focus. "I guess that wasn't too hard...not sure...am I right...?"
Tayla glanced towards Josh's direction. She also stared at his Slytherin girlfriend and sighed. She turned back to her parchment and laughed softly at herself, crossing out her calculations at the bottom. "Might as well ask Professor Hadley if I'm right...and for some help maybe.
She raised her hand and called, "Excuse me, Professor Hadley?" Looking toward the girl who called her name, Josephina glanced over the girl's work. "Almost... except for curious, you've miscalculated, as well as missed a digit for the phrase 'i need to study'" Perhaps prevelant to the fact that the girl needed to? Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley Here is my five words
Flirt
F-6 L- 3 I- 9 R-9 T-2= 29
Baseball Player
B-2 A-1 S-1 E- 5 B-2 A- 1 L- L-3 P-7 L-3 A-1 Y-7 E- 5 R--9 = 47
Sibling
S-1 I -9 B-2 L-3 I-9 N-5 G- 7 = 36
Lion
L-3 I-9 O- 6 N-5 = 23
Lover
L-3 O-6 V-4 E-5 R -9 = 27
William will think of a sentence in a few minutes. Looking over yet another Gryffindor first year's work, Josephina was impressed with how almost accurate they seemed to be. "Close, but you've missed the first 'L' in Baseball Player, so your calculation is off by that one digit." Hadley nodded, before turning to the previous said-counterpart-to-Evelyn. Quote:
Originally Posted by Destiny Destiny could feel her brain on the verge of explosion.
Too many numbers, too many big words and learning that a paragram is nothing like a paragraph was too much for her to take. They were only on the second floor of the castle, would Professor Hadley really notice if she took a quick dive to freedom out one of the opened windows?
Probably. Either that or her enemy Evelyn would rat her out. Pfft.
Frowning slightly, she thought about another escape route. But before she could come up with something better than the window, the Professor started speaking AGAIN and even assigned them some work. GAH! Now she HAD to stay and worst of all, she HAD to do the work.
At least this part was easy. Especially since she was allowed to use her book. She was allowed, right? Oh well. She was using it anyway.
Check, check, check.
After making sure her calculations were all correct, Destiny went back to thinking about an escape route. She had finished one part of the lesson, wasn't that enough!?
Her BRAIN! It was going to EXPLODE!
Was Patroclus in the lesson? She couldn't remember seeing him, but she wasn't about to get all creeperish and glance around the room. Although..if she did, she could probably find a way to get up to the ceilings. BUT! Before she had a chance to turn her head, Hadley started speaking AGAIN! What was up with her?
Her throat was going to get dry.
Perhaps she could offer to get the woman a glass of water from the kitchens..and just never return. Would she even notice if a house elf came and took her place?
Probably. Either that or her enemy Evelyn would rat her out. Pfft.
Slouching in her seat some as she listened to the next set of instructions, Destiny thought about a sentence to calculate. Hmm..
Got it! Staring at the girl's parchment, Josephina was now FULLY convinced that something happened between the pair. But her work was correct so personal issues she would have to sort out later....maybe. As long as they didn't bring it to her lesson, she was good.
"Nice job," Hadley complimented of the sixth year. Quote:
Originally Posted by PandaGirl Apparently, Heather thought her head was going to explode with more math to do. She hadn't been too sure with what she was doing at all. she was almost about done with the first work, but then Professor Hadley had assigned a new one. She sighed. This was one class she knew she would struggle in, just like the other classes.
Then Kurumi's calculations were posted i the board. She checked her calculations. Hm, perhaps she got it right?
Seeing that maybe she really did a good job, she moved on to calculate the next work as quick as she could. A sentence hm? Maybe this should be a good one.
Heather beamed at her work. She finally finished, that was really a lot of numbers to work on, really. Perhaps, Arithmancy wasn't that bad after all. It did look quite easy. Long sentence coming up next, in which Josephina totally needed a double-take on her own mental calculations. "Very nice," she complimented, clearly impressed. These kids were actually pretty decent with their basic math skills. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley Here is my setence Profeesor. Since I have a big family and we love each other. we have a saying.-
We Are Family
W-5 E-5 A-1 R-9 E-5 A-1 R-9 E-5 F-6 A-1 M-4 I-9 L-3 Y-7 = 70 Except for minor errors. "You've added the value of the word 'are' twice in that sentence, dear boy," she commented, smiling lightly and hoping to not startle him terribly much. Quote:
Originally Posted by CassiopeiaAKTF
Daichi scribbled down his answers at the front of the classroom while sometimes biting his quill. The theory had him pretty confused but when they started to do the calculations it was actually pretty easy...he hoped.
When done, the first year checked his paper again and wondered if he did the right thing. Frowning first, Daichi then shrugged his shoulders and continued the second part.
Believe in yourself
that was the second parchment, it was something his older brother always said to him when things went wrong. Daichi smiled thinking about it and bend over his parchment.
He then placed his quill back on the desk and waited to see if he did the right calculations. Staring at the next Slytherin's work, Josephina shook her head slowly. "Almost, but you've miscalculated 'Daichi' and didn't add up the final value for 'Duck'." She paused contemplatively. "Oh and make sure you add up the final total for that sentences as well," Fina said, smiling at the boy. Not a bad sentence. Quote:
Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe Tiberius narrowed his eyes in concentration as he considered Hadley's next task. Were the five words just practice or were they supposed to use them or what? Did the sums have any meaning at all?
Sighing, more frustrated than confused, he mulled over the sentence. Was it supposed to be about him? Were paragrams personal or just fun? He looked around to see if he knew anyone near him that he thought he could ask, but everyone he even recognized were seats and seats away.
It's like I'm a first year, again, he thought glumly, remembering what it was like to not know anyone. And, suddenly, there it was. His sentence!
Tongue poking out of the corner of his mouth just the tiniest bit in concentration, Tiberius did the addition and checked it over again.
Now, to find out if that bit about coincidences in the beginning was to get them to keep from assigning meaning to things, or if these paragrams did have some sort of meaning. Checking over the next boy's work, Josephina couldn't help but notice there were quite a few of the male gender in Arithmancy this term; not that it mattered terribly much but just an observation. "Nice work," Hadley said of the older Claw, as she moved on to the next. Quote:
Originally Posted by Sherri Wisteria was so confused, which didn't take much for her. She took out her ink and quill and dipped in and started scrambling words down first. Five words to describe you, hmmm
Athletic 2+8+4+5+3+8+2= 32
Caring 2+2+7+4+6+4= 25
Clumsy 2+5+8+6+7+9= 37
Loyal 5+6+9+2+5= 27
Bookworm 2+6+6+5+9+6+7+6= 47
One of my favorite wizards is Gandolf.
(663) (63) (32867483) (949273) (47) (4263653)
15+9+41+34+11+29=139
She put her quill down to recheck her work, she hoped it was right. The next student, however, didn't seem to understand this AT ALL. "Um dear... I'm not sure what number system you're using to change your letters to numbers, but you'll need to take a look over most of your changes and compare it up with the chart found in chapter two of your textbook." Because like ALL her word to number value calculations were wong. Quote:
Originally Posted by Kimalia Gosh, a whole sentence.. Kimalia didn't want to cut through this simply, " Where's the fun in that?" Kimalia rolled her eyes, perhaps she did have some Ravenclaw tendencies in wanting to overachieve. Skipping a few more spaces she wrote out her next part.
" There," Kimalia sighed. " That wasn't so bad." She set her quill back down for further grading and instructions. "You've got it," Hadley said, complimenting the next girl, wondering if it was just her or there were more students this year than last? Hmm... She shouldn't complain. Quote:
Originally Posted by MissFeenella Fee looked around to see how the others were doing and nodded to herself.This didnt sound to bad at all,she should be able to do it easily.
Taking out a piece of parchment and her quill the blonde thought about 5 words to ride down.Ohh yeeees that couldnt be that hard right?!
Oh that has gone pretty well actually.Smiling to herself Fee waited for the next instructions.Maybe Arithmancy wasnt that bad at all...Now to the next step.That shouldnt be hard anymore.Why shouldnt sentences work if the words did?Wouldnt make sense.Nodding to herself to encourage her a little bit the blonde took out a new piece of parchment and thought of a sentence. Stopping at yet another Slytherin, she frowned. "Almost, dear, almost. BUT the 'Y' in Slytherin should be a 7, not an 8...." Fina said quietly. Subtle differences that could make a difference. Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Simon hadn't actually turned up for a Arithmancy lesson since his first year and he had no idea why he had decided to turn up today maybe it was the fact that he had been in trouble with Professor Hadley at the start of the term and had wanted to come and make it up to her by trying his hardest in this lesson.
Simon looked at his notes, he was sure he was getting better, but still wasn't very good why had come today, surely he could have done something else other than be rubbish at a subject.
Simon was glad that was over hopefully he had learned something since the last time he came to a lesson, he looked around and saw Professor Hadley maybe he should see what she thought but she seemed busy so he decided to just wait for the next part of the lesson. Looking over toward a Hufflepuff that Hadley was fairly certain she'd seen him once or twice before, she looked over as he AVERAGED out his words. Blink, blink. "Um... You're supposed to add up the numbers in each word, not average all the word values together. For instance, the word ship would sum 25 if you add up each of those four digits," Hadley nodded, hoping he maybe semi-understood now. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady of the Lake Ariadne looked through her calculations once more, just to make sure she didn't do the Maths wrong. Which was entirely possible.
But it seemed right. It occured to Ariadne that she was actually enjoying this. So she decided to write the following sentence: I AM STARTING TO LIKE ARITHMANCY. Before attending to a Ravenclaw that was calling to her for assistances, Hadley glanced quickly over at a young Lioness and gave her a quick thumbs up of acknowledgement. Quote:
Originally Posted by rnbwxsprinkles Olivia stared down at her paper. She had written her last name on her paper, but that was all; she just didn't understand where on earth other people were getting these numbers from. The professor hadn't put a chart on the board and Olivia had no idea what they were all talking about when they mentioned Pathagorean. It just made her think of geometry.
She bit her lip and was surprised to feel frustrated enough to almost cry. She'd never felt this clueless before. Finally, she decided she needed to ask whether she was mocked or not. It was a moment of humiliation for asking a possibly stupid question versus a whole year of frustration for not. She rose her hand shyly. "Um... professor? I need help. I'm so confused."
She watched the professor come over and her heart thudded, certain she was being foolish had had simply miss some instruction. She was certainly prepared to be reprimanded. "In your textbooks, if you flip to chapter two, you'll see a chart in which are the numbers associated with each letter of the alphabet." Hadley explained. "So you take a word, we'll say, 'book' and figure out which numbers are associated with those letters."
She wrote it out on the girl's parchment:
B-O-O-K
2-6-6-2
2+6+6+2 =16
"As you can see, by summing each of the values of the letters, we can an answer of 16, which is the numerical value associated with the word book." She nodded, encouraging the girl to move on and write her own words. Quote:
Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh Nessie put up her hand waited her turn then said "Erm.. Proffessor I think this is right" Nessie read out read the sentence she had written from her book atloud so the proffesor and class could hear. She hopped what she was doing was right. It seemed like it was but she wasn't too sure. "Perfect," Hadley said, nodding at the next girl, another young Hufflepuff. Clearly their prefects were setting good examples. Quote:
Originally Posted by teamdobby Charlie sucked the tip of her quill whilst thinking of words that related to her. She had it.
RAVENCLAW- 9+1+4+5+5+3+3+1+5= 36
BOOKS- 2+6+6+2+1=17
GUITAR- 7+3+9+2+1+9=31
ART- 1+9+2=12
IMAGINATION- 9+4+1+7+9+5+1+2+9+6+5=58
Now for a sentence... Aha
THIS- 2+8+9+1=20
IS- 9+1=10
RATHER-9+1+2+8+5+9=34
FUN- 6+3+5= 14
Total= 20+10+34+14=78
Charlie hoped she was right. Nodding at the next girl, she smiled at her statement. "Nice job." Quote:
Originally Posted by potterobsessionist Alex wasn't really good at Arithmancy, which he was sure Profesor Hadley knew since his last year but he would give it a shot. And coming up with things that related to Alex Reed, was easy. He had no problem with talking, thinking or writing about himself.
He eyed his parchment before groaning to himself. As long as Professor Hadley didn't see what he just wrote he would be juuuust fine. He was kind of grinning triumphantly though that the sentence he'd picked (which wasn't a very happy one) had actually turned out to be easy. But why, oh whyyyy did he had to spell out Quidditch? *head!desk*
Oh well. At least he tried, pwease Professor Hadley don't throw equations at his head. What was with the lack of confidence in Slytherins this year? Staring at the boy's work, she shook her head. "Quite the opposite actually," Fina mused. "You're quite good at this." Quote:
Originally Posted by mlewis Gavin used the words he had chosen to do the second exercise.
I = 9 = 9
am = 1 + 4 = 5
a = 1
studious = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 9 + 6 + 3 + 1 = 29
quiet = 8 + 3 + 9 + 5 + 2 = 27
Ravenclaw = 9 + 1 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 5 = 36
who = 5 + 8 + 6 = 19
likes = 3 + 9 + 2 + 5 + 1 = 20
books = 2 + 6 + 6 + 2 + 1 = 17
and = 1 + 5 + 4 = 10
quills = 8 + 3 + 9 + 3 + 3 + 1 = 27
9 + 5 + 1 + 29 + 27 + 36 + 19 + 20 + 17 + 10 + 27 = 200
The sentence wasn't pretty but it conveyed who he was. Giving a thumbs up toward the next kid, Josephina made her way toward another Slytherin who seemed to having troubles...Maybe Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterloo OH DUDE.
He had an awful lot of catching up to do. Knox just didn't understand all these numbers.. way too ruddy confusing if you asked him. Frowning, the Slytherin spun in his seat, trying to catch a glimpse of somebody else's parchment. If he could just see... and maybe copy what they'd put... Hmmmm...
With a sigh, Macnair turned to his own parchment and started to write.
Much of the adding up and had been done by using his fingers, but hey, he'd done it! Whether it was right or not, he hadn't the foggiest.. and what did it all even mean? Just a load of mumble jumble letters to him. Heh.
Knox was more proud of his sentence than the Arithmancy and waved his parchment in the air happily. "What do you think Professor Hadleyyyyyyy?" But he was HAPPY about his troubles? Shaking her head, she smiled, "I think... you should double-check your calculation for that long sentence." Fina commented honestly enough. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady Well...
Five words synonymous with who he was? So, he was supposed to find out five words that described him. Sounded easy yet it was hard. Hard because he had never seriously sat down and thought over what kind of a person he was. Yes maybe one might have seen him boasting about his potentials however that was only joking around but this was serious stuff. So how he was supposed to find out which five words represented him?
Think hard Mr. Carter!
Yet first he needed parchment and a quill. So, he stole took some of Evelyn's parchment and snatched her quill once she was done with her calculations. That was done. Now to the words...
One could be Gryffindor. He knew some people did not think he was worthy of his house just because of points losses yet he still liked his house and tried to be a good lion despite everything. Next, it was his job to protect those people he valued and even others so he could add protective. Lafay called him Romeo but, no, he was not going to add that. Should he? Perhaps. Aha! Another thing, he had always tried to be just towards everyone. Aaaaand....he was devoted...to Evelyn, right? Right. Totally. So it was over. Finally. Text Cut: Parchment
Gryffindor
7+9+7+6+6+9+5+6+9
= 64
Protective
7+9+6+2+5+3+2+9+4+5
= 52
Romeo (Thank you Professor Lafay  )
9+6+4+5+6
= 30
Just
1+3+1+2
= 7
Devoted
4+5+4+6+2+5+4
= 30
Merlin! Hopefully he was done with that part. Now to work on a full sentence. Hmm what sentence could he write? Well...he could be kinda free with that part, yes? YES! Soooo...
Phew! Noooow he had surely remembered why he hated Maths so much when he had been at the Muggle school. Anyway, at least now he was done! So, throwing the quill on the desk, he let out a huge breath of relief and leaned towards Evelyn to rest his head on her shoulder. That head had his brain inside and his brain was kinda hurting now! Master of everything, eh, Carter? Raising an eyebrow at him curiously, she shook her head. "Doubtful on the statement, but that's besides the point....I think, you should double-check that calculation of your house value." Yup, yup. Do it. Quote:
Originally Posted by TwistedHearts 'Five words synonymous to who I am?' Zara thought. Looking around at the other students, there were a lot of numbers. Surely, that couldn't be five words. They must've been making sentences! Zara wondered Professor Hadley had asked them to write sentences too. 'Oh well,' she thought as she began to write down.
'Is this how it's done? Sentences? NO. I won't make it.' She thought, Zara was sure Professor Hadley hadn't asked them to. "You're doing good!" Hadley said, smiling at the girl who had taken some rather extensive notes. "Don't give up now!" She encouraged. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Nika looked down at her parchment and let out a rather loud yawn. Why must Arithmancy be so much work? It's not like she hated the subject it's just that maths isn't really her thing. Professor Hadley is very nice and all, but Nika isn't fond of Arithmancy. She dipped her quill in some ink and began drawing some doodles around the border of her parchment.
More work?!?! Great.
Nevertheless she began writing her sentences. After the first one she started to get a bit carried a way and went ahead and did two more. Arithmancy isn't that bad. Hmm... "Close, but I think you should double-check your calculations for your last two statements. Including the letter to number conversions," Fina said, commenting about the second year's work. She was sure that Nika would figure out her mistakes. Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicGlitter Ariella picked up her quill again. She loved to write, so she thought for a moment about her sentence.
~
Magic is as sparkling as the night sky.
~
MAGIC:
4+1+7+9+3 = 24
IS:
9+1 = 10
AS:
1+1 = 2
SPARKLING:
1+7+1+9+2+3+9+5+7 = 44
AS:
1+1 = 2
THE:
2+8+5 = 15
NIGHT:
5+9+7+8+2 = 31
SKY:
1+2+7 = 10
Total: 138
"Nice job," she said, as she noticed the other girl from before had continued with her work. Quote:
Originally Posted by TwistedHearts 'Awww, more work?' Zara thought. She began writing more on her parchment, now on it's second one.
After her work was done, she sighed and waited for the professor. 'Was the professor supposed to check them?' "See! I told you that you could do it!" Hadley said, smiling at the young Gryffindor with the look of a proud parent. Quote:
Originally Posted by dragon_star Yippee! More sentences!
Savannah took out more parchments and started to scribble her calculations. What sentence?? A famous quote-possible? Shakespeare? Homer? Tolkien? Savannah loves quotes. She has a little diary journal with all her favorite quotes in it. No matter who said it, when it was said, she just loves them.
Heehee. Frowning at the next girl, who insisted on reducing, she shook her head. "I said NO reducing to a single digit... And um... I think you've miscalculated anyhow." Yup, yup. Go, double-check. Do it. Quote:
Originally Posted by Macavity
One set of calculations done another set to go, Simon just needed a statement to draw the numbers from. Even though it was one thing now versus five, it turned out harder then it might seem. That was until finally an idea suddenly came to mind and he almost kicked himself for not thinking of it sooner.
Ending her current rounds back where she started with the Gryffindor Captain, Fina smiled as he seemed to have figured out the sentence thing, even if he miscalculated before. "Nice job," she commented lightly, before returning to address the rest of the class. "Most of you are figuring this out. If you've done a statement already and don't want to attempt another, just sit tight for a few more moments... We'll be continuing shortly." Hadley said, quickly before returning to her rounds. OOC: Yea, this reply took longer than expected and my shift is rounding to a close. I'll finishing replying to the rest of you IN A LITTLE WHILE and then continue on with the lesson. SOORRRYY ABOUT THAT!!! <333
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