Today, I told my class I was giving them 60 seconds to do a problem. A girl replied furiously "At least give us one minute!!" I teach a high school honors math class. FML
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LucyLollipop 22
I feel your pain, OP. Someone in my high school honors English class asked the difference between fiction and nonfiction. They were serious.
RichardPencil 32
Tell her she has 60 Silver medals to do the problem and her chances of getting it right are minute.
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LucyLollipop 22
I feel your pain, OP. Someone in my high school honors English class asked the difference between fiction and nonfiction. They were serious.
ThePinkPrincess1 23
I kept mixing them up until second grade
RichardPencil 32
Tell her she has 60 Silver medals to do the problem and her chances of getting it right are minute.
Murgray D. John 12
...Mr. Chang? Is that you? Lol one my honors math class teachers said that a female student asked him the same question, in eerily the same way and scenario.
CoyoteOldOne 17
I guess understanding the measurements of time isn't a major focus of the standardized tests they make students focus on nowadays. Did you explain to the student that they should go find out what a minute was? I mean - before it's time to be a grownup? I just. I mean. Isn't this the sort of thing you're taught by the time you're maybe six or seven? Isn't the number of seconds in a minute something a person ought to absorb just because they've been alive and around other people, and had to know what time it was? Digital clocks are the norm nowadays, and they make it extremely obvious, don't they? Has your student never used a clock?
joeyl1990 28
Could she have been joking?
Taurus_ChicKa 37
I calculate that she is going to fail the class. Ladies and gentlemen, our future.
Guille Wallace 7
Some people just don't pay attention on school, eh?
Lobby_Bee 18
Is she a blonde? She sounds like a blonde. lol
Yudith 28
She was obviously asking for a Brazilian minute, which as everyone knows is 380 seconds long.
heavenlyassbutt 11
Maybe and I do say maybe she was joking.