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Miss daisy said it was time for us to clear off our desks and see how much we knew about arithmetic.

Ugh !

" If I gave you fifty-eight apples and Plincipal Klutz took twenty-eight of them away, " Miss Daisy asked, " How many apples would you have left ? A.J. ? "

" Who cares how many apples you would have left ? " I said.
" I hate apples. If you ask me, you and Principal Klutz can take all the apples away and it wouldn't bother me one bit. "

" You woud have thirty apples, " said that girl Andrea Young in the front of the class.
She had big smile on her face, like she had just opened all her birthday presents. Andrea Young thinks she's so smart.

" I hate arithmetic, " I announced.

" You know what ? " Miss Daisy said.
" I hate arithmetic too ! "

" You do ? " we all said.

" Sure ! I don't even know what you get if you multiply four times four. "

" You don't ?" 

" I have no idea, " Miss Daisy said, scratching her head and winkling up her forehead like she was trying to figure it out.

" Maybe one of you kids can explain it to me ? "

Boy, Miss Daisy was really dump ! Even I know what you get when you multiply four times four.

But that smarty-pants-I-know-everything-girl Andrea Young beat me to it and got called on first.

" If you put four crayons in a row, " she told Miss Daisy as she put a bunch of crayons on the top of her desk, " and you make four rows of four crayons, you'll have sixteen crayons. See ? "

Then she counted the crayons from one to sixteen.

Miss daisy looked at the crayons on Andrea's desk.
She had a puzzled look on her face.

" I'm not sure I understand, " she said.

" Can somebody else explain it to me ? "

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