glass animals

Math came easy to me in school. By grade 9, I would tune out basically everything the teacher said, only occasionally turning my ears on to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I'd help people with homework, but they were never stuck on the new thing, logarithms or trigonometry or whatnot. They were usually stuck on the middle bits, things like simplifying x 5 &#x0002F; &#x00028; x &#x0002B; x 2…