Two days later, in the garden of the Second Hall of the Supervisory Office.
Jiang Yueyang stood in front of a blackboard, with Kong Jijiu and others, some academic officials from the Imperial Academy, and officials who came to study spontaneously sitting below him.
Yesterday, as soon as Emperor Yuan came out of court, he talked to them about learning Arabic numerals.
Today, Jiang Yueyang officially started classes.
She first bowed to everyone and said, "Your Majesty has ordered me to teach you Arabic numerals, and I will do my best.
I have always been very straightforward, so if I say something inappropriate in the future, I hope you will tolerate it."
Everyone remained silent, which was considered as their agreement.
Then, she continued in a serious tone, “Although I have never been a teacher, and you are all more knowledgeable and older than me, in this classroom, no matter your official rank or age, you must respect me as a teacher.
If anyone takes advantage of my young age, speaks disrespectfully to me, or has an inappropriate attitude, I will report the truth to Your Majesty and ask for punishment.
In addition, you and I both have a lot of work to do, so I hope you will study hard and graduate soon. "
Seeing that she had finished speaking, everyone stood up and bowed to the emperor, "We will respect our teacher and study hard."
Jiang Yueyang was secretly delighted when she saw this, but she remained calm and raised her hand to signal them to sit down.
Then she took out a piece of chalk and wrote the Arabic numerals from 0 to 9 on the blackboard.
"Counting from left to right, the first one is 0, the second one is 1, and so on." Jiang Yueyang said and glanced at everyone, "Everyone, do you need me to read it with you?"
Everyone: "...No, we can all read it."
Jiang Yueyang nodded, "Okay, now you guys should remember the ten Arabic numerals from 0 to 9. The first person who remembers these ten numbers will not be assigned homework today."
As she spoke, she turned the hourglass on the table upside down and said, "In a quarter of an hour, I will test you one by one."
As soon as he finished speaking, the British man who came to learn Arabic numerals spontaneously raised his hand.
Seeing this, Jiang Yueyang asked, "Duke Ying, is there anything else you don't understand?"
The Duke of England stood up and replied, "No, I just want to ask, before you test us, if we remember all ten numbers, can we apply for the test in advance?"
"Can."
After receiving the answer, the Duke of England bowed and sat down.
Everyone wrote down the Arabic numerals from 0 to 9 and silently memorized their appearance in their minds.
After a while, Kong Jijiu and Jiang Shangshu stood up together.
"Who will come first?" Jiang Yueyang asked.
Minister Jiang gestured with his hand for Kong Jijiu to come first, and Kong Jijiu was not polite to him.
Afterwards, Jiang Yueyang asked everyone to put away the Arabic numerals they had copied down and erased the numbers on the blackboard.
After she wiped the words on the blackboard, she wrote another number "5" and asked, "Kong Jijiu, how do you read this number?"
"five."
Seeing that he got the answer right, Jiang Yueyang picked up the pen and wrote another "8", and Kong Jijiu still got the answer right.
Finally, Jiang Yueyang shuffled the ten numbers and asked him to read them again.
Kong Jijiu successfully passed the test and became the first person today to remember the ten Arabic numerals from 0 to 9.
When the hourglass had run out of time, everyone present had memorized the ten numbers.
Jiang Yueyang continued to teach. She wrote the numbers 0 to 9 on the blackboard again and said, "When learning Arabic numerals, the most important thing is these ten numbers. As long as you learn these ten numbers, you don't need to learn the rest."
Everyone looked puzzled.
Jiang Yueyang smiled slightly and didn't rush to explain to them. Instead, she wrote 10 and 11 on the blackboard.
She pointed to 10 with a ruler and said, "This number is ten."
The ruler slowly pointed to 11, "So, what is this number? Does anyone know?"
A certain Imperial College official raised his hand and answered hesitantly, "Eleven?"
Jiang Yueyang gave him an approving smile, "Yes, this number is exactly eleven. The counting rule of Arabic numerals is very simple, add one when it reaches ten. Just like after 0 to 9, the next number is 10, which represents a ten and zero ones. And 11 is a ten and a one. In fact, this is similar to using an abacus."
After hearing this, everyone showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.
Jiang Yueyang then wrote down numbers such as 12 and 13 on the blackboard, explaining as she wrote.
At this time, the Duke of England, who had been silent all this time, raised his hand again, "Master Xiao Jiang, according to this rule, 20 is two tens and zero ones, and 21 is two tens and a pair?"
Jiang Yueyang nodded, "That's right."
In this way, after Jiang Yueyang taught them to recognize numbers from 0 to 30, he assigned them homework to write from 0 to 100.
After assigning the homework, she announced the end of the get out of class and said that the daily class time was limited to 25 minutes after the court session. Those who asked for leave for something or were absent without asking for leave would be punished.
The next day, Jiang Yueyang nodded with great satisfaction after reviewing their homework.
They all wrote from 0 to 100 smoothly. As expected of high-ranking officials who were Jinshi graduates, they all had very good brains.
It's so rare that they can learn so well from her rough teaching method!
Jiang Yueyang cleared his throat and said, "You all completed your homework very well, and no one made any mistakes.
In addition, I would like to praise Kong Jijiu. According to my promise yesterday, he did not need to hand in his homework today, but he still completed it very well.
Kong Jijiu is so eager to learn, we should all learn from him. Come, let's applaud him together!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she was the first to raise her hands and applaud. Everyone followed suit and applauded, holding back smiles on their faces.
Warm applause broke out, Kong Jijiu blushed and wanted to dig a hole to crawl into.
For the first time, he realized that applause could sometimes make people feel ashamed!
Is this a reward?
Why does he feel it is a punishment?
After the applause, Jiang Yueyang started today's class.
She wrote the two symbols "+" and "-" on the blackboard. "Today, I will teach you the addition and subtraction of Arabic numerals. These two symbols, one is the plus sign..."
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