Today, one of my students corrected the problem I had solved on the board, explaining that you do multiplication before subtraction. I teach the second grade. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, I was babysitting, and a little girl asked for help with her homework. I cheerfully began an explanation, only to freeze mid-sentence. I could not for the life of me remember how to do long-division. I'm about to graduate from Cornell University, and her little brother had to correct me. FML
Today, the kids I teach informed me that I had spelled my name incorrectly on the board. I looked at it and assured them that I had spelled it correctly. I'm 22 and a graduate student, they're six and mentally challenged. Guess who was right? 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, 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, I was helping my kid with homework after work. I tried to Google “third grade long division explained simply.” Autocomplete filled in “because I don’t understand it either,” which I read out loud without thinking. My kid stared at me and said, “So… who’s teaching who?” FML
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
Today, my math TA showed the class how one of her "dumb" students answered a test question. Everyone laughed as she wrote out the students answer, including myself, until I looked down at my answer sheet and saw that I submitted an identical answer. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, I was playing a math game with a 4th grade boy (I'm a college graduate). I cheated during the entire game, and still lost 7 of the 9 rounds we played. FML
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cookies61889 15
teacher became the student
duztx 0
Way to go...
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butteater 0
go back to school idiot.
Emi_Evermore 7
Since When Are Second Graders Learning Two Step Equations?!
sxdryv 14
bodmas
gabletz 2
why are you learning multiplication in second grade??
thetrollyoulike 6
I always hated the teachers that didn't know shit. thats what made school the worst when it came to learning.
HarrietPotter239 0
PEMDAS, bitch. PEMDAS.
fthku 13
Switzerland, bitch. Switzerland.
stupid0wl 3
I don't get all that PEMDAS / BEMDAS stuff. Why should multiplications be done before division? Or additions before substraction? Swiss-german speaking parts of Switzerland learn "Punkt vor Strich" which translates es "Dots before Dashes". Dashes are + (plus) and - (minus) Dots are · (times, "mal") and : (divided by, "durch") And the brakets - well you just understand them. Rule is "Zuerst in der Klammer" "inside the brackets first"
geeksaresexy 18
Multiplication isn't done before division, people who think that misunderstood BODMAS. It's more like B O DM AS D and M are on the same level as are A and S. It's a flawed way of teaching it and what you said makes more sense. It is the same thing though, our way is just a bit confusing to some.
OHnathanIO 4
they know the Order of Operations in second grade now?? Holy hell, the learning curve is going up faster and faster each year...
aflexa 0
maybe you should spend less time on fml and more time learning the stuff you teach
Bamvytar 0
Maybe you should trade jobs with the second grader ;)