:16:02
...it's totally off-track!
:16:06
You can't understand this because you're fussing about apples. You'll
have no trouble if you'd just simply memorize that you leave
multiplication as is and switch in division.
:16:24
Isn't her sister a member of Takarazuka?
:16:27
``S.K.D.'' [a group of performers, like Takarazuka]
:16:30
Taeko got a ``D'' in math class.
:16:32
Huh, a ``D''?!
:16:33
Right, it's finally gone down to a ``D''.
:16:37
Hmmmm.
:16:42
If her score were 50 or 60%, I could simply reprimand her.
:16:44
That's true...
:16:45
Do you think Taeko ought to have an I.Q. test?
:16:50
But when she entered school, she was diagnosed as ``normal.''
:16:54
Maybe she's turned stupid.
:16:56
When Taeko was a baby, she fell downstairs from the second floor,
remember?
:17:00
Right, right, in her walker. I thought she'd killed herself that
time.
:17:03
She only got a bump, though.
:17:07
Well, that's what is affecting her now.
:17:09
Right, that's got to be it.
:17:12
Not at all--she's just incredibly weak at arithmetic.
:17:18
She must be talking in class.
:17:21
Dividing fractions is quite easy if you pay attention, of course. Even
a complete idiot can do it.
:17:26
I'm worried about her future. She is going to be in the sixth grade,
after all.
:17:32
But how can I imagine dividing two-thirds of an apple by a quarter?
:17:43
But it's got to be right--dividing two thirds of an apple means
you...
:17:55
Even now, it's still tough when I think about it, you know. Dividing
fractions.