Eliza Kieran, better known to her friends as Ivy due to her obsession over the comic book character Poison Ivy, enjoys spending her days planting in her bedroom garden, feeding her Venus flytrap, Pub, as many flies as it wants, and avoiding mathematics homework with the excuse that she’ll either do it later or just wing it. Nonetheless, ever since elementary school, Eliza displayed the same attitude toward mathematics as she would not understand the different symbols and could not compute basic arithmetic combinations. Both her parents believed that she just couldn’t do the math and found no problem with it, especially since they both had struggled in school arithmetic. However, as her grades slipped in middle school, Eliza went through an
