- Summer's almost over.
- And the school year is fast approaching.
- To show solidarity with some of our student viewers.
- We're gonna relive everyone's least favorite part
of elementary school.
- It's Ladylike, and we're testing our timetables.
- Math in general just gives me gas.
- I've never been good at math.
I don't remember learning my timetables at all.
It's like I got blackout drunk in third grade,
and just forgot the whole year.
- I never really was great at math.
I was always more of a language person.
I do remember learning basic division, basic multiplication,
and I just remember hating it.
- I think I was a pretty good student.
I've always been very hard on myself
in terms of getting A's.
The fact that math was not my strong suit,
made me very sad as an eight year old.
- I was pretty indifferent about math,
but actually really liked these time tests
I love them.
- Love them?
What the hell? - I love them.
I thought they were fun, they were fun
- Oh, you were a nerd.
- Because it, yes!
I was 100% a nerd.
- It's really, really important for girls
to be excited about math,
and I think it's really important for people to recognize
what stumbling blocks that they may have early on,
so that they don't develop this lifelong, hatred, phobia
blackoutness of all things math.
Because I think I internalized very young
that like 'Oh I'm not that good at this'.
- So I just sort of.
- You leaned in.
- I leaned in, yeah.
Math is great, but if you're not good at math,
they're not gonna set you on an ice flow
and shove you out to sea, I don't think.
- I hope not.
- They may have changed the rules, I don't know.
(ringing bell)
- Okay teacher Ken.
- Oh boy.
- Wow, this is really taking me back.
- So much nervous excitement, oh I love these pencils too.
- [Woman] One, two, three.
(papers rustling)
- Oh (bleep)
- My God my penmanship.
- I'm slowing down now.
- Me too.
- I honestly feel like I have a mental block right now,
I don't remember.
- God mother (bleep) dammit.
- Aye no!
Darn, get away!
- 20 divided by four.
- What's 20 divided by four?
Five - Five.
- See this is how you knew she was a teacher's pet,
cause she won't even let me copy her.
- Well no because!
That's my credit, it's taking my credit!
- Oh my credit.
- Fucking dumb sack of (bleep).
Okay I'm done.
- I'm finished.
- Should I go check my answers?
- It must be really fun to be finished.
- When I'm looking at the problem, I can do it,
but when you ask me mentally, I'm like.
- Darn!
Do not. - I'm not.
- You were trying to look!
- I'm not doing anything.
- Look at your own paper!
- Thought you finished.
- Naw.
- Also the thing is just because you're done
doesn't mean that you're correct.
(ringing bell)
- Whatever.
- Wait a minute, what if we?
- [Kristin] No cause it looks like it's.
- Now he's gonna correct them, okay.
- He's gonna grade them.
- That was not fun.
- That was stressful.
- When you have a division problem
that you haven't memorized,
I honestly don't remember how to do that.
- In school you're always getting graded
on your smarts and intelligence,
and this is not either of those things.
- [Fred] Who you over here grading my quiz.
- Yeah who died and made you
King (bleep) the (bleep) mountain?
- Don't be sad because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Yeah, I'm sad because it's over,
and also sad that it happened.
(laughter)
- Oh!
- Wait how many of these did I get wrong?
- What are these X's?
- First of all I didn't even come close to finishing.
Second of all, I got two wrong.
So I got 10 out of 50, which is an F,
and the teacher was a jerk.
He wrote a (bleep) frowny face.
- A frown, that is rude!
- I got 47 out of 50.
That's because for some of these,
I just wrote the number I last looked at,
instead of the actual answer.
- I got 38 out of 50, most of which I just didn't answer.
Three into 24, three, why would that be three?
(laughter)
- I did well.
- Really, what did you get?
- I got 50 out of 50.
So I got 100%.
- Nope.
- Not really.
(ringing bell)
- [Ken] Go.
- What grade is this supposed to be?
- This is second grade.
- This is every stress nightmare I've ever had.
- Everything sucks.
- I'm done.
- I finished the first row.
- Kristin, you are fast.
- I am driven by a motivation of not looking bad.
- I'm gonna go back and check because I was notorious
for adding instead of multiplying when I got to frenzied.
I also just haven't physically written in a long time.
I only type and text things now.
- Look, we're in this together.
(bell rings)
- Hey pencil down.
Pencil, teacher! (laughs)
That little smirk on your face.
- I approve of that one. (laughs)
(Kristin laughing)
Wait she's asking people! (laughing)
- Freddy is kind of an unstoppable force.
One way or another, she's gonna get the damn thing done.
(laughs loudly)
Freddy I'm proud of you.
- I don't think I got them all right.
(laughter)
- No one said that she couldn't run and go ask people.
Did you say that in the rules Jen?
- You didn't say that in the rules.
- You did not say that, maybe think of that next time.
- It's nice to know that you can not be great at math,
and still be successful.
A lot of this is just memorization,
and if you have a bad memory,
you're a little bit screwed, but that's okay.
- 47 out of 50, I got an A this time.
- Got that A!
- You got a 50 out of 50, A plus.
Oh you just had to add that plus.
- You just had to add that plus.
- You just had to.
This is all a setup.
- You might as well had written this plus in blood.
- A 30 out of 50, (bleep) you, you wrote good try on this?
(Chantel laughing)
Little Jerk.
You got 100% again, whatever Chantel.
You did good, I think you worked really hard.
I appreciate all that you did.
- I do feel happy and pleased that I stood up for myself,
which resulted in an A.
- I don't think that this is a gage about what kind of
a successful human you are.
- I respect anyone that's still working through school,
because it's tough.
- Maybe don't run out of your classroom if the time is up.
- Naw I think you should.
When someone says you're out of time, you run like hell,
until you get it done anyway. - You run like hell.
- Honestly I was surprised
that my memory served me this well.
That's literally all it is,
it's not that I'm good or bad at math,
it's just that my memory served me well.
- Believe in yourself.
- Yeah believe in yourself,
but understand that this (bleep) doesn't really matter.
- Good luck in school this year everybody.
Hopefully you'll get great at grades.
- Be merry and bright.
- God bless.
- In every season.
- What matters is that you become a good person,
who can think for themselves,
and you know I don't know, drink your milk.
(laughter)