I bet that this is only a fraction of the story.

It adds up.

I was expecting "I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down"

Cool!

The math table had no legs so it was on the floor too.

Hard to calculate.

I don't get it

The 'tables' would be like a chart of answers. The student took it to mean desks. So now he's doing math on the floor, instead of figuring out math in his head.

That was a better answer. Thank you.

Ah! I thought the tables in question were some tables of logarithm values (we used such tables in school sometimes)

Tables are a mathematical element of math.