When I was designing Mossy, I had to rip it back a number of times as I couldn’t get the calculations to work. It was after some time that I realised I had written “8 x 8 = 48″ on the top of the paper. Therefore, it didn’t take me very far. 
Then, this Monday in Maths class, the teacher wrote y = x² on the board (we were doing calculus, finding derivatives) and he went around the class asking whats ‘y’ when x is 3 (9), what’s ‘y’ when x is 4, (16)…. and I immediately thought to myself… oh gosh… please don’t ask me!!!!!
ARGH, I was the 8th student and I panicked and replied……………….
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56!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*head desk head desk head desk*
I’m no good with 7 and 8 times table. I only memorised up to 6 when I was a kid and got lazy with 7 and 8. 9 can be calculated by using your fingers.
I’ll teach you…
Hold up 10 fingers, palm facing away from you.
With 1 x 9, just put down your left pinky. You have 9 fingers left ’standing’. So the answer is 9.
With 2 x 9, put down your left ring finger (it will be the only finger that’s down, your pinky will be back up). You will have 1 finger on the left of the ring finger and 8 fingers on the right of it. So the answer is 18.
With 3 x 9, put down your left middle finger and you will have 2 fingers to the left of it and 7 to the right of it. Answer 27.
Carry on in this fashion…. 7 x 9, put down your right pointer, you get 6 to the right of your right pointer and 3 to the left of it… answer 63….
So yes… I don’t know 7 x 7, 7 x 8, 8 x 8 by heart. Ok? Sometimes 7 x 6 is also a problem for me.
Sigh.
I wonder if I can get into med school? My classmates were probably laughing in their hearts then. *Hangs head down in shame*.
