44. I Don’t Understand the Question

That… how does that even work? What sort of logic could have possibly gone into this teacher’s mind to think a Snakes & Ladders board was a good way to teach math? Maybe it would work as a tens table, but for nine? That’s a no from me. If you do need a good trick to do quick multiplications with nines, however, you can count on your fingers.

Mathematically speaking, how would you even calculate nine times nine on that? The teacher here seems to have mistaken the gameboard for a multiplication table, which makes you wonder if they had the latter in the classroom in the first place. You really should if you’re teaching multiplication…