"All right - do you want us to find you specifically a math orange, or will anyone who passed math in school be fine?"

"I don't think I need anyone specialized? If there's different math requirements and I've got to actually learn them they can tell mom and she can help me."

"All right, somebody'll be by this afternoon unless you say to hold off."

"Okay. Thanks!"

"You're welcome!" And she lets herself out.

Her mom insists on shoggoth history lessons for a good chunk of the day until the math tutor arrives, though Bright gets an hour's break before that so her brain's reset.

And here is one of the greens who was there when they first arrived at the house! "Hi, I'm Tavin," he says.

"Hi! I'm Bright Sorrow!"

"I hear you're curious about math screenings for the schools you're looking at! Do you already have a practice test downloaded?"

"Yeah. I think I found the right one?"

"Let's have a look." He has a look. "Yep, this is the one for your age if you're not trying to get into an accelerated or specialist program of some kind. Do you mostly just need help with the notation?"

"Yeah, and figuring out if I'm at the same math level. I was for humans, but I don't know if standards are the same?"

"I don't know either, let's find out. Since this is a placement test you shouldn't worry if you can't do everything on it, they make it a bit hard to be able to learn more about what exactly you can do." He explains all the math terms and they can see if she can solve the problems - arithmetic with fractions and decimals, plotting things on a graph, unit conversion, finding areas and volumes. There are sections of the test for "interdisciplinary applications" with simple stoichiometry and word problems about probability and money and such.

She knows fractions in halves, fourths, eighths, and sixths, but can kind of figure out thirds and fifths and tenths. Decimals are hard; she only knows those from talking about money. Plotting things on a graph is doable, but she's unfamiliar enough with the unit conversions that she gets tripped up even with a cheat sheet. She can measure volumes but has a lot of trouble calculating areas and volumes. She is bizarrely good at stoichiometry given her problems with similar math (it's relevant to alchemy, which is relevant to a lot of magic, so mom had focused on it, plus she can visualize it), and has a pretty good intuitive sense for probability but hasn't formally been taught to calculate this, and knows how American but not Amentan money works.

The test avoids being about memorization - tables of units and lists of formulae are provided, and Tavin says it's not cheating to get a chart pulled up of currency even though the test hasn't thought to provide one.

Then she'll do a bit behind standard grade level for most of this, especially if she can go really slowly to triple check her math (she is separately bad at numbers), but not dramatically so. She does figure out how to use the area and volume formulas once the basic concept's explained to her.

"And there's your score! You like chemistry?"

"There's some cool stuff you can do with chemistry? And mom has a friend who was really good at explaining it and showed me some things. Like things that catch on fire if you put them in water! Or turn fires weird colors. But the equations and all are hard."

"Yup. They're important for doing things precisely with your chemicals but they don't have the wow factor."

"Yeah, and I'm probably not gonna do anything that needs being really precise."

"No? Not your speed?"

"It's kinda hard?"

"It is! Okay, do you want help with any of the other practice tests?"

"Yeah! Thanks."

He will keep walking her through practice tests.