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Illustration by Camila Franklin
The Girl Who Couldn’t Do Math
by Ione, age 6, California
Once upon a time, there was a girl who was named Emma.
One day, her dad took her to school. Emma was scared of math class. She said to her dad: “I’m scared.”
Her dad said “how come you’re saying you’re scared if you haven’t tried it?”
Emma said “Okay, I’ll try it.”
Emma went to the Math Class. Her friends were there. She looked around and said “This isn’t too bad. I can try math!”
The Teacher said to the class, “What is 5 + 5?”
Emma raised her hand and she said “Four!”
The Teacher said “No, Emma, No. It’s 10.”
The bell rung. The Teacher said “Class is over, everyone.”
Emma ran outside and she talked to her friends about how embarrassed she was.
Her friends said “Don’t be embarrassed. No one was laughing at you, right? We didn’t laugh at you!”
Emma said, “You didn’t. I think I’ll be better at math tomorrow.”
She went home. Her mom said, “How was your day at school, honey?”
Emma said, “The Teacher said what’s five plus five and I just said four. But the answer was ten!”
Her mom said, “Maybe you’ll be better at math tomorrow!”
Emma went to bed.
Her mom said, “Emma, it’s not night time! It’s the afternoon!”
Emma said, “Oh yeah. Good night.”
Then her mom said, “Oh well. I guess I’ll just ask the God of Night Time to make it night time.”
The next day at Math Class, Emma was nervous.
Her teacher said “What’s 10 + 10?”
Emma raised her hand and said “Four!”
The teacher said, “Emma! Are you going to keep saying ‘four’?”
Emma had recorded a sound of the bell ringing and she played it to get out of school.
Her friends said, “Emma, why do you keep saying ‘four’?” Emma said, “I do not know.”
Emma went home and went to bed, but Emma still didn’t know how time worked and it was just the afternoon again.
Her mom said, “Again?!”
Then Emma had a terrible dream that she was turned into a “Four.”
But guess what happened in the morning?
She was turned into a “Four”!
Her mom thought she was sick so she didn’t send her to school.
But Emma sneaked into the car and started driving. It’s okay! Because she was 17.
She drove to school. The Teacher was teaching math.
When Emma tried to say hello, she just shouted “Four!”
The Teacher screamed. “Agggghhhhh!”
The Kids said, “Oh no!!”
Emma ran to the yard and said, “Agggghhhh!”
She did not know she had turned into a “Four.”
She played her recording of the bell ringing. All the kids left class.
Emma called all of her friends over to say, “How can I get back to normal?”
One of her friends said, “Well, you can talk to the scientist to get back to normal.”
And guess what? That’s what she did.
Emma was turned back into a girl and said “Yay!”
She said to the Scientist, “You look familiar. Wait… are you my teacher?”
The Scientist said “Yes. Did you learn anything?”
Emma said, “I should never say ‘four’ again!”
THE END!
