bookrandom Chapter 50 Teaching Mathematics
Chapter 50 Teaching Mathematics
“Everyone come here. As you can see, our Rainbow Phoenix Chickens are laying more and more eggs, but none of our chicks can count.”
"You think you wouldn't even notice if the Rainbow Phoenix Chicken's eggs were stolen or a few were missing one day!"
"So today, Priest Brother will teach you math, so that you'll be able to calculate how many Rainbow Phoenix Chickens and Rainbow Phoenix Eggs there are in the future!"
The cubs, who had initially looked bewildered, immediately became serious upon hearing Lin Baiyan's words.
The young chickens take the eggs of the Rainbow Phoenix Chicken very seriously!
These days, ever since taking on the task of caring for the Rainbow Phoenix Chickens, Wolf Cloud has been going to Rabbit Forest every day to collect food for the chickens, while Wolf Wood is busy changing their water.
Upon hearing that someone might unknowingly take away their colorful phoenix eggs, Little Wolfwood unconsciously bared his small teeth fiercely.
"No, I want to learn..." What was that priest brother saying again?
The young man kindly reminded Xiaolangmu, "Mathematics."
"Oh right, it's math." Little Wolfwood nodded.
Wolf Cloud glanced at the goofy Wolf Wood with disdain, but unconsciously became serious as the priest brother made sense.
The other cubs also looked very serious.
The priest brother said that after the Rainbow Phoenix Chicken lays its eggs, we must make them something delicious, so we can't let it go to waste!
But... what is mathematics?
One of the cubs asked this crucial question.
Lin Baiyan looked at the cubs with satisfaction at how cooperative they were, and explained to them, "It's the ability to calculate."
"You want to teach them calculation skills?" At this moment, Lang Cang's voice suddenly came out from behind Lin Baiyan, startling the young man!
"Meow meow~"
The two orcs, one tall and one short, began to stare at each other.
Lin Baiyan was frightened again and transformed into his beast form...
This time, however, the young man was clearly more "composed" than before, though his fur stood on end, his tail was held high, and he unconsciously let out a threatening growl.
Lang Cang looked away guiltily; he did seem to have really frightened the young man.
He coughed lightly, trying to make his voice sound normal, "I didn't mean to..."
Lin Baiyan saw that it was Lang Cang and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. He sat down on the grass without transforming into human form. He pressed one front paw between his two hind paws and waved the other paw wildly in the air.
"Meow! Meow!" Can you please not suddenly pop up like that next time? You can scare people to death!
Wolf Cang couldn't understand cat language, but judging from the kitten's indignant expression, he roughly knew what it wanted to say.
Lang Cang touched his nose. "I'll be more careful next time."
He quickly changed the subject, "I just heard that you're going to teach them how to calculate."
The young man went around behind the rock, transformed into human form, and came out, his round cat-like eyes unconsciously glaring at Lang Cang.
Lin Baiyan raised her chin, looking a little arrogant, "That's right, I plan to teach the cubs to count, so they won't be easily fooled in the future."
Young people's thinking sometimes overlaps with that of parents in China, except that they have lower requirements for talent. They don't expect their children to be outstanding, but at least they can't be illiterate!
Ever since the young man taught every orc in the tribe how to start a fire, Wolf Cang knew that he was different from the priests he had met before.
Those orcs only wanted to hold knowledge firmly in their own hands, and they wished their orcs were even more ignorant, so that they could control them and obtain more food for themselves.
However, Lin Baiyan was very generous, sometimes even to an excessive degree. Lang Cang sometimes wondered if the young man didn't realize how precious the things he was saying were.
He unconsciously wanted to remind Lin Baiyan again, "The knowledge you're talking about is very valuable. Are you really willing to pass it on to the cubs?"
The young man nodded matter-of-factly. "Of course, it's not just the cubs; if the adult beastmen want to learn, they can learn together too."
However, the adult beastmen have too many things to do every day, and the young man is afraid that forcing them to study will cause some of the beastmen to resent it.
It's not snow season yet. Once the snow season arrives and everyone has more free time, he thinks it's time to put these things on the agenda.
We could build a small classroom inside the cave. We don't expect everyone to be a math genius, but at least they should learn to count and do simple addition and subtraction.
Let the cubs get used to it first; they'll be more receptive to it then.
Lang Cang nodded thoughtfully, "Can I learn with them?"
Lin Baiyan looked at him with some surprise, "You want the cubs to come along?"
Lang Cang smiled and said, "Well, or you can teach me privately whenever you have time."
His mother and father were priests in the tribe and also had some basic calculation skills, although he used knots and stones to do the calculations.
In fact, this is the most common calculation method on the Orc continent, but it is extremely tedious and complicated, and very difficult to learn.
He felt that this was the kind of calculation method Lin Baiyan was going to teach.
However, he learned it in a carefree and irresponsible way back then, and didn't really grasp much of it.
Looking back now, I realize how ungrateful I was. By the time he wanted to learn, his parents were already gone…
Lang Cang's dark eyes dimmed somewhat.
Lin Baiyan thought this would work too. After all, he and Lang Cang slept relatively close together, making it easier to teach him, and besides…
Although their tribe was small and dilapidated, Lang Cang was at least a tribal chief, representing the image of their tribe. He couldn't possibly be a complete illiterate in the future, or he would become a typical example.
Moreover, if Lang Cang takes the lead in learning, the effect should be much better.
“Sure, I’ll teach you when I have time,” Lin Baiyan readily agreed.
After agreeing on the matter with Lang Cang, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he sat down with the cubs and looked up at the young man, saying, "Let's begin, Teacher Bai Yan."
The young man couldn't help but chuckle when he saw the wolf cubs mingling among them. He then picked up a sharp stone from the ground and wrote the Arabic numerals 1 to 5 on the stone slab.
He picked up a long wooden stick and tapped the stone slab. "Today we're going to learn about numbers."
"... "
In fact, as long as someone isn't completely stupid, they can recognize numbers relatively quickly.
After Lin Baiyan finished teaching using the colorful phoenix egg as an example, he also taught addition and subtraction within five.
Because the content was limited, the little ones absorbed it very well.
Lang Cang's expression became very strange after he started teaching this year.
What's this?
Shouldn't we use knots and stones?
Lang Cang looked at the symbols on the large stone slab, a hint of shock gradually appearing in his eyes.
He looked up at Lin Baiyan's teaching figure, his expression shifting in a complex way. He might have found the hope his parents had spoken of…