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10 Post author: James_Miller 09 October 2013 07:19PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 11 October 2013 09:31:32PM 3 points [-]

3rd grade is multiplication tables territory. That's deadly boring even when you haven't mastered it yet.

Not for me. I got into a competition with the other smarty pantses in the class to see who could get passed to 12x12 first. We all stayed after school one day in a round robin competition being quizzed by the teacher.