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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Halloween
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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astriofou 0
This makes me want to punch babies! and Kill Leprechauns, and tell kids that Santa isn't real.
PSFanMike123 0
Wow, some one knows the BEDMAS (Brackets, Don't remember E. Equations maybe?, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction) law even before they reach high school. Bravo 2nd grader.
HerroMaylaHerro 6
you taught him well? lol
Shiden 3
you were teaching long division, weren't you? DMSB?
ImJustMe71810 0
I always learned it as PEMDAS (Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction).
drakesylvan 6
You shouldn't be teaching math, if you don't know order of operations. However, I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt if the problem included a set of "()"'s.
Lemonkitty1 1
Actually, it doesn't matter if you multiply first or divide first. You just follow the order that the operation goes in. for example; 3x4%3= 4, not a weird decimal that I'm to lazy to calculate right now. Whatever sign that comes up first is what you do. PEMDAS isn't literal. I think of it like this, P&E M&D A&S. It really doesn't matter. You probably did the problem by accident. I do it all the time. One mistake I had to show to the class made me believe I was stupid because everyone thought I was, and I failed a year of algebra because of it. Last year, I passed Algebra Top of my class with a nearly perfect percentage. It's people like the ones who called you and me stupid that hold great people back. Just because you did something wrong doesn't mean you're stupid. I don't like the people who called you stupid, to be frank. Sorry I took up all this space. Weird...
heyzus100 6
I remember when i was in first grade this damn substitute gave us some math problem and the bitch kept giving me my paper back because one problem was wrong. I told her to solve the problem on the board and then she realized her mistake. Rude ****.
GummyBearX 2
BEDMAS duh!
FarscapeSDC 9
just do what my teachers always did, claim you got it wrong on purpose to see if they could spot the mistake. They either laugh and forget about it, or believe you and you look slightly less like a fool.