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 Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 1:44 pm
 River held her paper firmly, running over numbers in her head. Even and odd numbers? They had just learned this, so it was relatively new, but luckily River excelled at math. That, and she studied the night before.
3, 9, 11 - odd
2, 6, 10 - even
Now all she had to do was add, correct? Nodding, she continued to scribble, struggling to make her handwriting as neat as possible.
3 + 9 + 11 = 23
2 + 6 + 10 = 18
And now to add both results together!
23 + 18 = 41
Was this odd or even? She narrowed her eyes briefly before grabbing a red pen she enjoyed carrying and writing, in nice, big, bold letters: Odd There! Now she was done!
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:54 am
Although this was Amory's favorite class and Thian was secretly determined to give everything the chimera liked a fair shot, so far he held no similar love for mathematics. He had tried to get behind the tidy, soothing streams of numbers and perfect theory, but it was all memorization and no innovation. The demon found it tedious.
Luckily, he already knew what even and odd numbers were, and adding was simple enough too. Thian fished his pencil out of his bag and got to work.Quote: Even20 + 8 + 4 = 32 Odd13 + 1 + 19 = 33 Addition32 + 33 = 65 The sum of the numbers I chose is odd.
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:46 pm
 Math wasn't really Xenophon's best subject--he'd always preferred history or art or language arts or something. But everyone had to learn numbers, even if numbers made adults unhappy. Certainly they made Dad unhappy when he was adding them up...
But Xenophon went along with the exercise anyway. He wrote down the first even numbers to come to his head: two, four, and eight. Added up that was...um...fourteen, right?
Then odd numbers. Um...That would be like...three, five, and eleven, right? Added up, that was nineteen.
And fourteen plus nineteen was...
...Uh...
Twenty-...three...? No, wait, thirty-three.
Which was definitely odd. Satisfied, Xenophon turned in his paper.Quote: Even: 2, 4, 8 Odd: 3, 5, 11 Even: 2 + 4 + 9 = 14 Odd: 3 + 5 + 11 = 19 Odd: 14 + 19 = 33
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:51 pm
 Choose three even numbers, three odd numbers, add them all together? Teo shook his head inwardly. He already knew the answer: the number would be odd. It was one of those things he thought about on the ride to school or while he was waiting to go to sleep at night. An even number plus an even number was always an even number, and an odd number plus an odd number was always an odd number. But add an even number to an odd number? The result, the sum, would be odd. So adding three even numbers, or one even number to two added even numbers, would be an even number. But after the first two odd numbers had been added together to form an even number, that even number had to be added to an odd number. Which made an odd number, which had to be added to the previous even number...
So he already knew the answer, even if he didn't know the specifics.
Nonetheless:
My even numbers: 28 + 36 + 42 = 106 (an even number)
My odd numbers: 27 + 39 + 45 = 111 (an odd number)
The Grand Sum: 106 + 111 = 217 (an odd number)
He sighed. Well, at least he'd picked some large numbers...
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:10 am
 Nightmare Anchriesel Response: Well, this was a strange assignment, and no mistake. No matter. Anchriesel flipped through his textbook idly, looking over page after page of formulae. He stopped when he saw some familiar symbols--cos, sin, and tan. He'd seen them before on pocket calculators--but what did they mean? He wrote down a formula associated with them. Maybe their teacher would explain it then.
sine(q) = opp/hyp
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:19 am
 Nightmare Yaviss NacEllis Response: Well, okay, it wasn't the most pointless exercise he'd ever heard of. But it certainly seemed to be a top contender for that title. Yaviss very, very carefully sighed on the inside. He couldn't be caught sighing on the inside. He flipped briefly through their textbook, looking for the first formula to pop out at him. It didn't take long--in one of the earlier chapters, he found something that would do for the assignment:
P = C (1 + r)^t
He scribbled a label underneath it, the same label he found in their book: simplified compound interest. There. Done. Math survived for another day. He scribbled his name on the top of the paper and handed it in to the Litch teacher.
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:21 pm
 Math she used in her every day life? Wyrdda frowned. She couldn't think of any math she used every day. She was a musician, not a mathematician. She didn't even do any arts or crafts! No hobby planes, or...or sewing, or whatever. She looked over at her classmates, trying to think of something she used math for...
Hm, well, there was one thing, she guessed. I play a lot of music, she wrote on her whiteboard. She held it up for their teacher to see. And chords in music are all a matter of ratios. That was math, wasn't it? Ratios or something? She didn't even know. She shrugged and doodled on her whiteboard.
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:24 pm
 Math in every day life? Uh, not exactly something someone like Oriset spent a lot of time thinking about. It wasn't really her forte, per say. She was more about the arts. "I use trigo-whatever when I walk to classes," she said. "I always try to pick the shortest route, so I use trigonometry in my head to figure out whether I should walk along the path or cut across the grass. Whatever gets me where I want to go faster."
Then she thought about something else. "I also like to draw buildings and rooms," she said. "I like to design rooms, so I spend a lot of time working at scale. Is scaling math? Or is it art?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:21 am
Nightmare Jericho
Response:
Math. Jericho was good at math. He was in the top five of his class at home - he worked hard to be good at math. He memorized formulas, he practiced, he did equations in his head -- so why... why was he happy that they weren't actually going to be doing any math today?
He glanced around at his classmates, most of them seemed relieved as well... Maybe it was just a day for relief? He wasn't sure... Either way, he wrote down the formula he'd chosen - one he'd no doubt be using a lot in the future, and then a brief explanation for it.
P = C (1 + r/n) nt
This is a compound interest equation. It lets people figure out how much interest is going to accrue on debts they owe.
He sighed, then wrote his name at the top of the sheet before passing it in to the teacher.
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:02 pm
 Nightmare Citali Response: Math wasn't to terrible of a subject. It wasn't her favorite, but it wasn't her most hated class either. It was just one of those classes that was there. Citali sighed as she got the assignment for the day. Write down an equation? Really? That's it? Sometimes she wondered why she bothered coming to class when she could be hidden in her room with a good book.
Quickly she jotted down the first equation that came to mind,
(1/3) b h = 1/3 pi r 2 h
This equation helps you find the volume of a cone. It isn't a very hard equation, but useful to know if you have cone shaped decorations in your room that you want to know the measurements for.
When she finished the assignment and turned it in, Citali sat back down at her desk and pulled her book out of her bag, and began to read until the class period was over for the day.
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:56 am
 Zeke had his notepad out -- this time it was actually his class work one instead of his plots and plans one -- and began to debate the numbers he wanted to use. As he mauled it over in his head, he then began to scribble down his picks.
Odds - 3 + 5 + 7 = 15
Evens - 2 + 6 + 10 = 18
15 + 18 = 33
After he took care of his numbers, he scrawled out Odd below the math problems.
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:00 am
 Sleepily, Mai Tai started on her assignment. She didn't really go out of her way to put a ton of thought into it because the only thoughts she had was of getting more sleep.
1, 3, 5 - odds
2, 4, 6 - evens
1+3+5=9
2+4+6=12
9+12=21
odd
There... assignment completed. She was pretty sure she did the math right, but was too tired to give it much thought. Yawning as she pulled the paper from her notebook, she left it on the corner of her desk, and rested her head on her arms.
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:21 pm
 Freddy tapped his pencil against the sheet of paper laid out before him. Math class was always a little boring to him. It was pretty easy and he tended to get done quickly, which meant a lot of free time having to sit still and be quiet so he didn't disturb anyone. He sighed, then scrawled down a few numbers. Odd 7 + 17 + 27 = 51 4 + 14 + 24 = 42 Okay, that was probably a little lazy on his part, but it still counted! He showed his work off to the side (he still couldn't keep multiple digits in his head and be totally sure of his answers), then finished the assignment. 51 + 42 = 93 = odd Finished he went to hand in his work then sat back at his desk, wondering if he should follow the example of that colorful Dryad and take a nap... [quote"nepsah"]
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:35 pm
 Wayne didn't struggle with the assignment but he did take longer than expected because he wanted to be thorough with his work. The imp freshling listed his chosen numbers and labelled them before adding them all up as instructed. Odd
1 3 7
Even
2 4 6
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21
21 is odd.
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 6:00 pm
Nightmare : Esrael
Response:
The Fallen looked over the assignment and chuckled to himself, this was by far one of the easiest math questions he had ever encountered.
"a * 0 = 0...yeah...that's super easy! Everything multiplied by 0 is 0!" He eagerly whispered under his breath. By no means would the winged boy say that math was fun or even easy, but multiplication times zero was a no brainier.
He sighed as he closed his book. At least it wasn't one of those crazy things like the forumlas for figuring out Polygons or any of that stuff that had to deal with sin and cos! He was definitely getting off easy this math class!
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