Chapter 17 - I Will Get Started

"Ok, so you mean that you are teaching well, but they can't get good results because they are stupid. Am I right to say that?"

"Of course."

"So, you mean that their poor results have nothing to do with you, right?"

"Yes!"

"Alright, if that's the case, why not we go on with the bet that I suggested?"

"Fine! If all of them understand your explanation, then I will resign! However, if any one of them don't, then you scram off from school!"

The class was extremely angry and worried. The conditions Mrs. Wen suggested were definitely not fair because she was a teacher and Mo Xi was just a student. If a teacher can't make any one of her students understand a concept, how could a student, make all of them understand.

"No problem."

"Principal, I'm sure you heard our bet, so you have to make sure that it holds," Mo Xi said as she turned her head to look at the Principal who just arrived together with the Head of Mathematics Department, Mrs. Lee.

"Mo Xi, how could you do such things?!" The Principal reprimanded Mo Xi angrily.

Mo Xi was just thinking that bringing the Principal here might not be enough, Mrs. Lee might be needed as well, and Jing Bo Chuan just brought her here. Jing Bo Chuan walked back to his seat and Mo Xi thanked him and gave him a thumbs-up before she turned back to face the Principal.

"Principal, I believe that a good teacher requires two quality. One, able to teach. Two, respect their students. Firstly, based on the class's results, Mrs. Wen clearly didn't teach the class well. Next, Mrs. Wen insulted all of us for being stupid, this shows that she doesn't respect any of her students. Mrs. Wen doesn't have any qualities of being a good teacher. Hence, Principal, I hope that you can agree to our bet."

"Mrs. Wen! How could you say such things to your students! However, Mo Xi, whatever you did isn't right also, how could you chase a teacher out."

"Principal, if Mrs. Wen really isn't capable of teaching, it would be better if you replace her earlier. Think about it. If you can raise the average scores of the school and more students from our school can enter universities, perhaps even a prestigious one, just by replacing a teacher, isn't it worth it? That way, more students would want to come to our school, our reputation would be even better. Furthermore, you wouldn't be wasting money to hire a teacher that can't teach. Moreover, it doesn't mean that Mrs. Wen would need to resign, you could just think of it as trying another way to help the students learn better. If I can't make them understand, then there isn't any damage to the school. The one that loses face would be me since I started the bet."

The Principal's face changed after hearing what Mo Xi said, whatever Mo Xi said was right, "Alright, I will agree to the bet."

"Very well! Principal, may I request for forty-five minutes uninterrupted lesson? Whatever methods that I used during this forty-five minute, no one should disturb us."

"Ok!"

"Then, I will get started."

Mo Xi went to the board and wrote down ten different types of questions, each covering certain concepts. She told the whole class to do the following questions while she walked around to look at how they did them. She would explain the errors to them, and she wrote down notes and key concepts in their papers. Along the way, she would use her pencil to circle the errors they made and compliment them when they correct their errors or get the concepts right. The purpose of making them do those ten questions was to look at what concepts they don't understand, find out what errors they often make and tailor the learning to each of them. Only when all of them can understand the concepts behind those question would they be able to attempt other questions. After thirty-minutes, all of them could understand all the concepts behind those ten questions and they also found out what errors they made while doing questions, such as misunderstood concepts or careless mistakes. Mo Xi then began to go through the ten questions that were prepared by Mrs. Wen, this time, she went to the board and explain those ten questions to the whole class.

In total, Mo Xi only used thirty minutes to build and secure the foundations of the class, then used fifteen minutes to teach them how to link those concepts together.

"Can you all understand my explanations?" Mo Xi asked as she placed the marker on the teacher's table.

The whole class was dumbfounded, they didn't expect that forty-five minutes passed by so quickly. In the past, they felt that the lessons were very long because they couldn't understand anything, and the lessons weren't fun. Although they still made the effort to listen, none of the things Mrs. Wen said could be comprehended. However, because Mo Xi helps them get the fundamentals right, and Mo Xi's explanation was extremely interesting that they enjoyed the whole forty-five minutes.

The whole class went crazy once again.

"Waaa! I understood everything!"

"Me too! Oh my god! I understood!"

"Yay! I'm not stupid"

"How can this happen?! You all must be lying! You all are classmates, so you guys would help her!" Mrs. Wen roared.

"He," Mo Xi snorted, "Mrs. Wen, do you belittle your students that much or are you trying to escape from the bet?"

"If you believe that they are helping me, then go ahead and test them with other questions. Ah, Mrs. Lee, you are the department head right, could you give them some questions to test them? Mrs. Wen doesn't believe that they understood the concepts."

Mrs. Lee was looking and listening to how Mo Xi explained the concepts earlier on, and she was pleasantly surprised. This made her eager to know whether Class 5 truly understood the concepts, so she agreed immediately. She went to the board and wrote down another ten questions which were of higher difficulty. She then went around to look at how they solved the questions. Every single one of Class 5 could solve the questions and they only took around ten minutes to solve them all.