SPOILER!!: Professor Domingo!
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Lolita Domingo 
[FONT="Century Gothic"]"There are a few vegetables left up here if you want seconds!" she called as she reached the front of the room. Now who was next? Reaching Ethan, she nodded approvingly. He was clearly putting thought into it. As was Jasmine with her ideas of conflict and peace. Next was Simon, who also seemed to have some good ideas and sensible combinations. They were all three on the right track.
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She clapped her hands several times to get the attention of the class. "ˇAtención! Back up here, please." Lolita paused several seconds to allow them to finish their sentences. "I saw many good thought processes, and a few of you even figured out the answers by the end." Some of them had clearly memorized a textbook, though, which was not the type of critical thinking and deep understanding she was looking for. Anyone could look up answers, what she wanted to know was if they could riddle them out themselves.
"So five, as the union of the first male and female numbers, was thought to stand for love and marriage." She nodded in the direction of the several who she'd heard that idea from. "Now ten unites the properties of uniqueness, polarity, harmony, and all of space or matter because it is a combination of one, two, three, and four." This was the hint she had given them. "Therefore, ten is the number of everything and was the Pythagoreans' most revered number, since it represented the whole of the cosmos." More appreciative nods toward those who had come to this conclusion.
After a slight pause for scribbling notes, she continued. "So to summarize.." With a wave of her wand, the equations disappeared and the vibratory influences they had discussed appeared.
"Now for the task. Remember how I said Arithmancy could help us understand ourselves better? We can use these basic vibratory influences as building blocks to get other numbers. For instance, six is the product of 2 and 3, the first male and female numbers, and when the two genders combine after marriage, the 5, new life is formed. So six represented creation." And much more, but that was the most commonly used characteristic. "I would like to hear YOUR ideas on the numbers seven, eight, and nine. There are multiple answers possible, as the ancient literature has little consensus on how the Pythagoreans viewed these. Once more you may pair with someone or not, it is up to you." And she wanted to see creativity and a solid thought process here, not just textbook answers.
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He smiled when the Professor gave him an approving nod. Yes, headed in the right direction. Despite getting her assuring nod, he still felt a little wibbly-wobbly about Arithmancy, he'd have to find people to study with. He copied down the answers that the Professor wrote on the board carefully into his notebook.
He paused. Now they had to figure out seven, eight, and nine, hey? Hmm... He rested his chin on his hands. Seven could be opinion and division plus love and marriage. But what would that
even mean? He had no clue. Eight could be something to do with love and marriage plus harmony. Then nine could mean justice and order plus creation? He copied down these in his notebooks but what did this mean exactly?
Now Simon was lost...... Ehh..... Okay