is it just me, or are all math teachers evil

[Mass_Liberal]

Every single one in 9 years of education has been ill-willed, nasty, illogical, mean-spirited, or just plain stupid. Has this been your experience?

1st grade: evil, wore too much eye makeup, ripped up the only good piece of art I have ever made.
2nd grade- nasty on acct. of her husband dying in the middle of the year. Can't blame her for that one
3rd Grade- shudder shudder, can't even talk about it. Too many repressed memories
4th grade-meh boooorrrring
5th grade- a woman who lectured us on how poor she was while buying purebred dogs for thousands of dollars
6th grade- evil woman who screamed at students for not understanding with annoying sayings like " It ain't brain surgery, it isn't ROCKET SCIENCE!!
7th grade- completely incompetent, the smart kids in the class could run mathmatecial rings around him. HE WAS STUPID!!!
8th grade- the evil eye, a bit facist.
9th grade- also stupid, in addition gives too much work, and gives test on things we havent covered

ARRRRRGG (turns into Hulk)

[JohnKleeb]

1. Split

7th grade math teacher: Asshole and looked like Mario and yelled a lot at the class
8th grade math teacher: Mean old lady, couldnt stop yelling at the class
9th grade math teacher: Nice guy, didnt make math enjoyable but he was a good guy
10th grade math teacher: Nice lady who was pretty young, and you could get along with easily, although the class was tough
11th grade math teacher: undecided, shes ok I guess

[gyopsy]

2. Pretty much

They're non-stop business. They never tell jokes in class. They give out twice as much HW as the other teachers.

And if they are somewhat nice, they're usually very quirky. I had a math teacher who had 14 cats and was proud of it once.

It's not their fault. Math is boring and doing it every day MAKES a person boring. And there's not much you can do to make Predicate Logic problems seem any more interesting anyway.

To be fair, my math teachers in college have been a little better than my HS math teachers.

[JohnKleeb]

Obviously you never met my Algebra teacher

She cracked jokes and loved picking playfully on this one kid, and they would heh talk about clubbing together.

[wtmusic]

3. Damn, am I the only one who had a good math teacher?

Math is definitely not boring if it's presented well.

[Kamika]

4. not true

I used to think so, but in HS I had the nicest teacher ever..

She'd spend over 2 hours with me after school just explaining stuff to my slow math head. And I'm fairly sure she bent the rules abit when she graded my tests, because lord knows I tried. I probably have her to thank for my hs diploma.


But if the question would have been "is all Math evil?".. that's a big YES

[Cleita]

5. Every single one of them except one guy

who was so hot, I could barely concentrate on those evil quadratic equations. Too bad he was engaged to be married.

[JackSwift]

6. No. My daddy is a retired math teacher

and he is definitely not evil.

And if you think that 9th grade stuff is overloaded, just wait till you get to second year algebra (durn Arabs!) and trigonometry.


But your English looks good for a 9th grader.

[JohnKleeb]

7. Algebra II good god and Trigo

oh god. Well lucky for me, I am taking Algebra II as a Senior and Trigo in college. Yep I am a grade behind in math, no shame.

[SadEagle]

9. And do note...

That real mathematicians call that stuff 'elementary' or 'classical' algebra, as opposed modern/abstract algebra which is what they usually mean when they use the term.

Oh, and most of the math professor's at the university I attend are totally cool, and have some great senses of humor.

[Mass_Liberal]

11. tank oo

hey! yur Jack Swift! i've herd soo mooch aboot you, eh?

p.s perhaps not all math teachers. I'd venture the vast majority, though

[Syrinx]

8. I had one math teacher I liked

Mr. Tyree, he was an oldish, black man, and a bit of a nut. When you get a question right, he would say "Tell the truth, and stay in the church." And if you missed, he would say "I'm going to have to beat your bukom bottom." I don't know what "bukom" means. :shrug:

And he kept incredibly detailed diaries, kind of like Bob Graham:

7:05 put on socks

7:06 put on shoes

7:07 kiss wife

etc... Yeah, we snooped in his diary....

[Indiana_Dem]

10. hahah tell me about it!

I just wrote in a public forum last week about the bush administration and Tuesday I received a rebuttal public forum attacking me and my views and it was written by my high school algebra teacher!!!!! AAARRRGGGG!!!

[sasquatch]

12. Math is a skill that you're born with

Some people have good math skills but lack in common sense, history and culture. They are very lazy most of the time and only see the world in black and white. The world is most definatly not black and white so that upsets them. So they take that out on everyone else. Most math teachers I knew weren't the sharpest pencils in the drawer when it came to life and creating family's. So they bitched moaned and took it out on evryone else. I went to a school that thought if you weren't good at math they thought you weren't good at anything else. So when they saw that I suck at math they thought I sucked at everything else. So they asked my dad if they wanted to stick me in in remedial reading although the test said I didn't need it. Just to be safe he said "yes" so I got stigmatized as a underperforming student. Remedial reading is basicaly a scam to milk the goverment out of money because they never help the kids get better so the kids stay in the system. Hence forth you get job security and to hell with the kids because they don't have any future. I know some kids do need those classes but a majority of them don't. For those of you that are offended by what I just said, saugen sie meinen groben dicken deutchen hahn.

[LastKnight]

16. not necessarily

while i do believe remedial programs dont do much good, i dont agree with the fact that some people are born with math skills and others arent, i used to suck at math until i had a certian teacher(the only teacher i actuially liked and learned something from). that was just last year now im still going in my math classes and know how to do 90% of the assignments before the rest of the class, the skills can be developed, its not all innate.

also alot of math didnt make sense to me untill i started physics, suddenly all the 'what am i ever going to use this for' crap became relevant to me, and now i learn it, cause i find physics interesting, but straight math still kinda bores me

-LK

[AnnabelLee]

13. I never liked any of my math teachers

although I don't think any of them were evil. My 7th grade math teacher had posed for Playboy before she became a teacher, & some of the boys in the class used to leave a copy of the magazine on her desk once in a while. She'd walk into the room & we'd all be sitting there innocently as she picked up the magazine & put it in a drawer without saying a word or looking at us.

My 9th grade math teacher always seemed a little intimidating to me. When I was in 10th grade, his wife filed for divorce, & he committed suicide. I thought it was very sad; I had always dreaded math class & associated my teachers with that dread, never realizing that they have feelings just like all of us.:-(

[Mass_Liberal]

14. A TILF

magnificent. We have one of those

[AnnabelLee]

15. Umm, what's a TILF?

:shrug:

[JohnKleeb]

17. Teacher I like to Fuck

ala MILF.

[AnnabelLee]

21. Ahhhh, I should have known that

Thanks.:hi:

[Darth_Ole]

19. I have to disagree.

I used to be pitiful in math. Especially in 8th grade even though I had a good, intelligent teacher. (She was a hilarious, well-natured lady. And a Democrat, too).

And in Freshman and Sophomore years in HS I had two great teachers. My freshman year my teacher was a good-humored, charming, Southerner. He really looked like a "Bubba". And my sophomore Pre-Cal teacher was different. She was cold, osteire, and damn tough. But she taught the stuff well and that's when some of that advanced math really clicked for me. And for that I'm grateful.

(Of course, I've had a lot of really sucky teachers in the past, too. Don't even ask me about my 8th grade Humanities teacher.)

[Mass_Liberal]

20. you should count yourself lucky

VERY lucky.

[aQuArius]

18. I enjoyed math

I never had a problem with math, in fact I really enjoyed most of my math teachers. Math made sense to me and I did really well. By the way, I'm new here and love reading all your posts!

[Mass_Liberal]

25. WELCOME!!!

good to have you here :hi:

[aQuArius]

26. Thanks...

:) :dem:

[JVS]

22. It's you.

Math teachers are great. The best teachers I've seen have been math teachers.

[SmileyBoy]

23. Yes, completely, but with the exception of one.

My high school geometry and algebra teacher was one of the coolest guys in the world. Very helpful and friendly. He was able to communicate with the students very well.

I've had nothing but crap math teachers besides that.

[goobergunch]

24. My calculus teacher protests the School of the Americas annually

He actually had a "teach-in" on it a couple weeks ago.

My pre-calc teacher says he's an elf.

I've always liked my math teachers.

[AlFrankenFan]

27. Pretty much

Except this year my teacher for Geometry is really nice. My Algebra teacher and Pre-Algebra teachers were nasty. So were my math teachers in 4th and 5th grade. Overall, it's kind of spilt.

[Booberdawg]

28. It's you, sorry to say

Maybe some conbination of freeper to help you get back on your feet. But not even *I* do that anymore.

[Syn_Dem]

29. Ack

Math is evil, I recently got demoted from Advanced Algebra to Algebra II...thank god. I was getting killed in that class.