3+8=6

So I was at my friends house...and his baby brother comes up to me and asks me to help me with his french homework...
Being the nice GOOD influence (NICK) I nicely obliged: So..uh...Bobby..what do you need help with?

Bobby: math.
Me: What?! i thought you needed help with french..(not that I could've helped you with that either..)
Bobby: yeeahh...anyway..help me figure out this homework problem. Whats 3+ 8?

Me: (preparing to launch into my speech)

Well...Bobby. the answer to the long-awaited and much anticipated question: whats 3 + 8? has been debated long before you were born. And heres the answer.

Ok. First, assign the answer a value of x.

x always means multiply, so take the numerator (which is actually latin for 'number eighter') and put that on the other side of the equation.

That leaves you with three on the first side.

So what times three equals eight?

The answer of course, is 6.

Bobby: Gosh..I must have done all the others wrong
Me: These problems seem awfully advanced for first grade, if you ask me.