106 Teacher Wang’s Little Math Class
Wang Heng never liked fighting unprepared battles.
This Saturday, before Ye Xun arrived, he had already bought a full set of high school liberal arts math supplementary materials, as well as two sets of mock exam papers. From these questions, he selected twelve problems that were moderately difficult and covered a lot of knowledge points.
Test the waters first, then teach according to the student’s aptitude. Although he had never really been a tutor before, he could look up the strategies of his predecessors in this field online.
After making full preparations, Wang Heng met Ye Xun, who had come by subway, at the coffee shop near the school gate. The seats they took were right next to the location of the last mixer, a table for two by the window.
Ye Xun wasn’t wearing her school uniform, but a shirt, skirt, and knee-high socks similar to their first meeting. Her hair, which had been cut much shorter, was also styled differently. Her bangs were parted to the sides, revealing a smooth forehead; a small braid was tied on top, making her look particularly playful and cute.
However, Wang Heng only glanced at her, greeted her, and didn’t look much more. No matter what emotional fluctuations the girl’s appearance brought, at least on the surface, he couldn’t reveal a flaw so easily.
He spread the problems he had selected in front of the girl and said, “Do these first. Let me see your foundation.”
“Is it these circled problems?”
“Yes, just these.”
“Understood.” Ye Xun nodded, picked up her pen, and faced them as if facing a formidable enemy.
Then she silently worked on the problems, and Wang Heng silently watched from the opposite side.
After more than half an hour, seven of the twelve problems were solved, and the remaining five were only started but couldn’t be continued. Seeing this, Wang Heng pressed down on the pen in her hand and took the test papers.
“Hmm, half wrong,” Wang Heng commented. “I can see that you’ve seen these knowledge points before, but when they’re put into a problem, you can’t get around them.”
The girl said helplessly, “Yeah, I haven’t done many problems like this before.”
Wang Heng: “In math, the most important thing is logical thinking. But since you’re not going to delve into mathematics as a major, just getting a high score on the exam doesn’t need to be that troublesome. You just need to master all those routines. Simply put, it’s grinding problems.”
“Grinding problems?” Ye Xun’s voice trembled, and her face turned a shade paler.
Wang Heng explained, “When your proficiency is high, you’ll naturally know what to do when you encounter similar routines, and your accuracy and speed will both improve. And as long as you pick the right problems, you won’t need to grind too many.”
Ye Xun asked tentatively, “What exactly do you mean by ‘not too many’?”
Wang Heng: “Roughly speaking, two papers a day is about right. The key is not the number of problems, but to thoroughly understand every problem. It’s best to keep a notebook for wrong questions, copy down the problems you got wrong, including how you got them wrong and what the correct thinking is… The more important the problem, the more detailed you should try to be.”
Ye Xun thought for a moment and was a little worried. “But I have to study not only math, but also other subjects.”
Wang Heng counted on his fingers. “Besides math, you have to take exams in Chinese, English, and Comprehensive Liberal Arts. Among these three, your Chinese foundation is definitely not bad, plus Comprehensive Liberal Arts just requires memorization. As long as you understand the ideas in the textbook and memorize various knowledge points, it’s fine. For this, I believe in your memory. Then English, it should be even less difficult for you…”
Ye Xun asked curiously, “How do you know my English level is okay?”
Because in the first timeline, your livelihood depended on English—of course Wang Heng wouldn’t say that. He had plenty of reasons.
“Because the private school you attended before was probably the kind that aimed for studying abroad, right? In such a school, your English level definitely wouldn’t be bad.”
The girl nodded. “That’s true…”
“Alright, less idle talk. I’ll try to connect the knowledge points and explain them to you first. High school math has more than a hundred knowledge points, and when they make test questions, they will connect multiple knowledge points, so you must know them by heart.”
As he spoke, Wang Heng stood up and opened the supplementary materials. To point out the key points, he needed to look at the same material as Ye Xun. But during this process, he always maintained a distance from the girl.
Through the practice of the first timeline, he was quite proficient in many small tricks in relationships between men and women. Based on practical experience, when girls interact with boys, they usually have a self-protective awareness of a safe distance. If a boy is too close, it will make the girl feel unsafe.
But if a boy has a suitable excuse and closes the distance very ‘reasonably’, then over time, the girl will often get used to it. The result is that not only is the safe distance shortened, but the intimacy also increases.
What Wang Heng had to do at this moment was to consciously avoid this. So when he was explaining the knowledge points, he stood nearly a meter away from Ye Xun. He had to stretch his arm and use a pen to point to the content on the supplementary materials.
After explaining like this for a few minutes, Ye Xun turned to look at him and asked in confusion, “Is there something wrong with me?”
Wang Heng: “What?”
Ye Xun asked more clearly, “Why are you standing so far away?”
Wang Heng: “I have social anxiety.”
Ye Xun’s eyes lit up, not knowing what she associated it with, and nodded repeatedly. “I understand. Genius hackers in movies are all like you!”
Wang Heng: “…If you say so. Anyway, digest what I just said and finish these exercises. Then… uh, I have to take a call. You do the problems first.”
Feeling his phone vibrating in his pocket, Wang Heng subconsciously walked into the restroom not far away.
Taking out his phone, he saw that the caller ID was Lu Qi.
He answered the call, said “Hello,” and heard the mature woman on the other end tease, “How was your sleep-in today?”
“It was okay. By the way, Sister Lu, I should have told you yesterday that I’m not going to the company today…”
Lu Qi interrupted, “Yes, you said you weren’t going to the company. What about tomorrow? You should be coming over, right?”
“If there are no accidents, I should…” Wang Heng asked carefully, “Sister Lu, do you have something important to ask me?”
Lu Qi pondered for a long while and said, “Indeed, there is something very important, but it has nothing to do with work.”
Wang Heng: “Then, what does it have to do with?”
Lu Qi took a deep breath. “Money. I just saw that Bitcoin has risen to nearly three thousand yuan per coin. Aren’t we selling yet?”
“Oh, you mean that,” Wang Heng breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. “Trust me, it’s not time yet.”
Lu Qi: “I just calculated. If we sell now, the 100,000 I invested in you at the beginning will become 360,000…”
This time, it was Wang Heng’s turn to interrupt her.
“Sister Lu, relax. Leave it to me, okay?”
