Elly and Sandeep went into a large room with big windows. There were about twenty-five other Earthlings there. She sat down at a table near the front of the class. A large, red man came in and stood at the front. Elly stared. He was just so red! His face was red, his hair was red and his two large ears were red.

"That's Mr Pearson," whispered Sandeep, "the maths teacher."
"Ah," he said loudly, "you must be the new girl. What's your name?'
"Elly," she replied.
"Well, Elly, today the class is having a test so let's see what you know about maths."

The students in the class fell silent as the teacher handed out the test papers. They sat and worked at their papers, with puzzled looks on their faces and chewing their pencils. Elly wrote her Earth name for the first time. What a strange way of communicating she thought. Why don't they just look into your mind? But then she remembered that Earth people couldn't do that.

Elly laughed when she saw the questions. What baby stuff they learnt here! She wrote all the answers in three minutes and put her pencil down on the table. The red-faced teacher looked at her.
"Ha! No good at maths, hey?"
He walked over to her desk and picked up the test paper. He couldn't believe his eyes. He walked back to his own desk muttering.
"She must be cheating. It's impossible…only fifteen."

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