[Ain........ hmmmm, what a weirdly familiar name! Too bad he can't place where he's heard it before. That unfortunate realization will just have to come later.]

It could be something like that... or maybe they use algebra to encode their secret cult messages. Just think of all the top-secret information we could be missing out on, all because someone decided to skip their homework...

[what if those math questions the teacher writes on the board are actually coded messages for the secret cultists stationed in the classroom with them

what then noah??]