The bell rang and kids bustled out into the hallway. Leo Valdez pushed his way through the busy halls to get to his next class, Geometry. Everyone hated his teacher and no one even knew her name. She had replaced their teacher, Ms. Resnick, after just a week of school. She had been a favorite and it was hard to see her go, especially when he came into third period to find… her.

Geometry. The subject most hated by every student at Wilderness School. Worse than Physics, worse than P.E., worse than English and Social Studies, and that was saying something. Leo flopped down in his seat by the window and took out his notebook. He saw Piper McLean sit down calmly in her seat across the classroom. She made a "Yay! We get to die," face at Leo, which made him chuckle.

"Quiet," The teacher snapped. "Begin your entry task."

The passing bell rang. Leo tried to focus on the words on the board, but they jumped and danced in front of his eyes. "In a bIs maoI ksiIcf emaaf," the words read. Leo pressed hard against his forehead to clear up the words, but it didn't help.

"Leo Valdez, if you can't read the entry task is says 'If I am on a boat I am seasick.' You need to write the converse, inverse, and contraposative of each."

"Um…" Leo felt his ears get red. He could hear Nancy giggling. Leo looked to his paper again. 'What the heck is a contraposative?' he thought. Quickly he wrote the first thing that came into his head.

"Math. Math. Big Word. Lots of numbers. Blah Blah Blah Blah. The End!" Then slammed down his pencil. Ms. Teacher began to explain.

"Emma, please explain what you did."

Piper, across the row looked at Leo and made a Handgun. She pretended to shoot herself and die. Leo laughed and responded with "stabbing" himself with his pencil. Piper pretended to cut her nose off with a pair of safety scissors that Ms. Teacher had provided.

"Leo Valdez!" Ms. Teacher snapped. "That is enough. Just because you have dyslexia and can hardly read anything doesn't mean you can just goof off all day. Now take notes on 3-1, you can take notes on me talking if you can't read the board." More laughter, this time from all of the girls, except Piper. She knew how Leo felt.

His face red, Leo opened his math notebook and began to write.

"100 Things to do When You're bored in Math."

He leaned back to admire his work. He had colored the 100 in with the rainbow pens the councilor had given him to "help him focus."

'Wow, I should really try to think of 100.' He thought as he continued to scribble.

Warning: These are designed for unbearably boring math classes. Use if and only if your brain is starting to fall out. Side effects may occur. If you experience nausea, vomiting, explosive diarrhea, seizure, stroke, heart failure, excessive bleeding, or even death contact your doctor immediately.

1. Talk across the room with a friend by mouthing words, using hand gestures, facial expressions and/or props (such as: pencils, rulers, math books, scissors.)

2. Write Calculator words."

3. Color each square in a fun design on your graph paper. Use lots of color.

4. Make a Flip-Book Movie in the bottom right corner of your math notebook. (Instructions below)

•Draw a small paper starting on the last page.

•On the page before it copy the picture, but change it slightly. Do this until you reach the last page.

•Grab the edge of the papers with your thumb and index finger and let the pages flip. Look at the bottom corner and watch your movie.

•Annoy your neighbor with it.

•Movie should be no longer than five seconds.

5. Calculate EXACTLY how many seconds there are left in class.

•S=Seconds m=minutes

•S=60m

6. "That's What She Said" everything the teacher says and laugh out loud if it makes sense.

7. Draw dinosaurs and alligators on all of the less than and greater than signs.

8. Decorate the margins of your notebook using one or more of the following:

•Flowers

•Stick figures

•Stars

•Hearts

•Circles, Squares, rectangles, triangles ect.

•Dinosaurs

•Anything else you can think of

9. Look in the Glossary for math terms that sound inappropriate. (Example: Postulate, Biconditional…)

10. Look for shapes of animals, objects, people, letters or other shapes in the ceiling.

11. Find every way possible to equal 1134 (turn it upside down) using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, y=mx+b, square rooting and/or the distance formula.

12. Doodle in your notebook, looking up occasionally to make sure it looks like you are listening.

13. Find the end of Pi

14. Write a "100 Things to do when You're Bored in Math Class" list.

15. Go to the bathroom and carefully analyze each and every poster using the DIDLS strategy on the way there and back. Pee as slowly as possible. Also, get a long drink at the drinking fountain.

16. Count air molecules.

17. Color your jeans with a highlighter.

18. Have a picture war with a friend sitting close to you. RULES:

•The first person draws a picture

•The next person has to raw something that will "kill" that thing.

•Keep repeating step II.

•Example: I draw a cockroach. Player 2 draws a bomb. I draw water. So on and so forth.

•Be sure to not let the teacher see.

19. Pretend that you're a ninja while sneaking Goldfish crackers from your open lunch box to your mouth.

20. Take your pens apart and put them back together."

A/N: So… Ann, Emily, Meagan and I were bored in math today and came up with this list. We have been working on it all week and we just finished today. I will post 20 each day. If you have any please PRIVATE MESSAGE THEM to me. I WILL give you credit. Please still review, I love your feedback. If you catch a Geometry pun or something ironic about something I wrote review it to me and I'll give you a shout out in the next post. (Hint: There are at least three.) Please only post one to give everyone a fair try.

#6: Go watch The Office (If you're 13 or older.)

#15: DIDLS is an analyzing strategy used in AP English. Diction, Imagery, Detail, Language, and Sentence structure.

#19: We do this one every day with my Goldfish because Math is right before lunch.