Fourth grader uses ‘girl code’ rules she learned from her mother to answer a math question

When it came to answering a math problem about high school dating, one fourth grader wasn’t liking it and came up with a sassy answer using the power of ‘girl code.’

Nine-year-old Maddy Douglas was filling out her math homework when she came across a question involving dating patterns, The Huffington Post reports.

In the question, a group of high school students go on dates in many different pairings and Maddy had to figure out which girl dated which boy among the hypothetical group.

The problem for Maddy was that the question switched the dating patterns around between the group of boys and girls and she wasn’t having it.

Instead of passing the question, Maddy gave an epic response: “I can’t answer this problem because my mom says [according] to girl code you shouldn’t date a friend’s [ex] boyfriend,” she wrote.

Her mom, Jenn Douglas, shared the photo of Maddy’s response on Facebook with the hashtag #girlcodetrumpscommoncore.

“I asked her to skip it because I wanted to talk to her teacher about the appropriateness about it,” Douglas told BuzzFeed. “She did a little thinking of her own and showed me what she wrote. To me, her answer was too cute not to share online.”

Maddy first learned about girl code when she had a disagreement with her best friend about a boyfriend at a day camp, Douglas told BuzzFeed. Her daughter’s new boyfriend had previously been the boyfriend of her BFF.

“I explained the importance of having girlfriends in your life, but it was her choice as to how she handled the situation,” Douglas told BuzzFeed. “The next day when I picked her up, she told me her BFF and her had made up because she chose her girlfriend instead of the boyfriend.”

Ever since then, the message has stuck.

Not only did Maddy’s answer become a viral hit but her math teacher also saw the humorous side.

Douglas told The Huffington Post that her teacher laughed at the answer and told her “good point.”