Today, my new calculus teacher taught everything using nothing but soccer terms and analogies, just so the resident idiot meatheads would understand. I didn't learn a thing. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I learned, 90 horrifying minutes into a college exam, that my 85-year-old calculus teacher had spent the last three weeks teaching us the wrong chapter. FML
Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML
Today, a professor approached me in the hall to ask if, since I'm a math major, I could tutor one of her communications majors in a required Calculus course. Apparently the volunteer tutor the school provides "is a complete dumbass." I'm the school's volunteer tutor. FML
Today, my math teacher decided to use my acne as an example of symmetry in front of the whole class. FML
Today, as I went into my calculus class, the teacher announced that someone had received a negative grade on the test we were getting back. I laughed and said, "Which f*cker managed to get a negative?" Turns out I'm the dumbass. FML
Today, I have a final for my precalculus class. After hours of studying this week, I felt pretty optimistic. Until I got to class and realized that I'd forgotten my calculator. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, my math teacher told me to learn how to say "welcome to wal-mart". FML
Today, I had to find simple words to explain to the idiot I was tutoring that "1/4" is not of a greater value than "1/3" just because the denominator is bigger. FML
Today, my professor snapped and told me that I know nothing, that everything I've ever learned is wrong, and that all of my former teachers should be shot. FML
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Creshto 1
Does that mean you're less intelligent than the idiot meatheads?
flashback.miss 28
okay, just because one student has trouble understanding doesn't mean the whole class should have to be subject to that. maybe you could volunteer as a tutor or refer to a math help center>
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Mahendra1 9
The teacher's job is to ensure the majority of the class understands the subject matter. Seems like the teacher's doing his job well in this case and you're just bitter because for once you're the person being left behind struggling and you don't like it.
greentacoeater 1
So what. Would you be sorry if the op had been a sports person that didn't get it normally? Props to the teacher for taking on all students, and it sounds like you didn't talk to your teacher about your concerns. The responsibility is on you if are having problems.
fivetimeslonger 24
I want to know how a bunch of "idiot meatheads" are in a calculus course. You usually have to progress to that level and it isn't required in most of the US for graduation (for high school.. Or even college for that matter). Unless, of course, you're in a more prestigious school, or private school; in which case I would ask how are you in a class with "idiot meatheads" and an instructor who teaches with soccer jargon in the first place.
thecrazymancan 17
How the hell does one teach calculus using soccer analogies? In fact, come to think of it: how does one teach calculus using any kind of analogies? Calculus is supposed to be about rates of change. How can you make any kind of analogy for a rate of change? I mean I can understand how you could apply it to something, like doing some soccer related example problems, but making analogies about? 0_0
Shade1982 21
That's actually a pretty well-known technique. It's hard for some people to understand some things, so you try to relate the material to them using something they like. They will pay more attention and are more likely to remember it...
iwadasn 33
Analogies only work if you're familiar with what something's being compared to. If OP has never played or watched soccer, then how is she supposed to learn calculus through soccer analogies?
NodakN8V 25
Can't fix stupid
Philr_fml 3
You can't call someone who plays soccer a meathead
xsilentxninjax 10
I played soccer in school, and was most definitely NOT involved in drugs.... I find that a bit insulting that the teacher assumed that students who were involved in soccer were also involved with drugs.
SexyMexi21 23
Okay so just because you don't understand soccer terms your calling everyone else a meat head. well your dumber than dumb and you deserved that op