Jen nodded as he spoke, paying special attention to the way his lips curved around every word he said. She hung onto the way he pronounced his words, hardly even able to pay attention to what they actually meant. She was only able to catch the last part of it really. Jen leaned forward as if to look through his test paper for the questions he had missed. "So, you think you're having trouble because numbers don't really have meaning to them?"
And she could understand that logic. With chemistry you had measurements and names that allowed you to visualize things better. In math, numbers were just numbers. You could use apples and oranges, but was it really ever easy to picture ten billion apples divided by a hundred million oranges? No probably not. "Might there be a way for us to think of these problems in terms of chemistry. Or even as objects." She pointed out one of the problems on his sheet.
"Like this one," she said, her voice lowering slightly, "that could easily be a chemistry problem if you think about it in the right way."