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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Comments (154)
kims0706 10
I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that you got a second grade problem wrong, or the fact that a second grader corrected you on your math 0.0
Megan98 18
PEMDAS Pink elephants might dance awkwardly sometimes. :)
J3NNI3LYNN 9
PEMDAS
chinagirl3343 8
I hope you laughed it off with grace and didn't get mad at him/her. Learning lesson for the kids in math and how to go whoops with grace.
RedNeckFamily 7
What in the hell kinda math ate they teaching in 2nd grade now I learned how to add and subtract when I was that age
picturescrazy 24
It happens. Even my college professors will have a student correct them every now and then.
doglover100 29
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally
leanna19 10
PEMDAS
DeadPixel4 29
PEMDAS
Motafota 14
You teach BEDMAS in grade 3? I didn't even know of BEDMAS before grade 7...