Mnemolth Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Seems to me that many maths teachers are nerds, and nerds have this annoying habit of trying to be funny, and failing miserably... hey!...why is everyone looking at me?? :D But seriously nerds try too hard. Regrettable. Understandable but regrettable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fall Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Well now for the sart of grade 9, I have a maths teacher that I've never heard of or seen. He doesn't try to pull too many jokes, though when he gets angry, it's like an earthquake hitting- he's actully quite young for that characteristic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 [color=red] Hah. I am slightly blurred into closing this thread...gah. I don't really like Math, but, it is something that is certainly needed for life. So I live with it. And also, this year I do like my Math teacher, he's actually quite a good teacher, and seems kind and nice and so on. So there.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegeta rocker Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 I usually just ask them to let me sleep and not embarras them with my dazzling genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bing Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 [size=1][color=darkblue] I don't even have a math's teacher. This school year, I've had two main teachers. One was a stuttering Indian called Mr. Nanji, and the other was a hyper little lady with wide eyes, called Miss. Fyson. I didn't have to pull any jokes to make them look stupid, because they managed to do it to themselves. Math sucks. Do you know a really good way of getting a teacher annoyed. Get up, and start walking around the class, over and over again, occasionally stopping to steal something, or assault someone. Now [b]that[/b] annoys them. Ask Break, Cajones or Vercetti.[/color][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celia Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 [color=0099FF] [size=1]Well it's easy for me to make my math teacher to feel stupid because she is already stupid. She doesn't even know answers to some of the math questions and she is a Honor teacher too. I mean, omg, she should know after all these years.[/color] [/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 You have never met any of the teachers that I had for high school if you believe they will look stupid that easily. Most of my teachers would find a response that makes you look like the stupid one. That is the problem with challenging someone with better training, they know more then you do and can use it.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan L Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by master [/i] [B]your lucky are teachers arent like that here on the island we have to make the teachers look bad by thinking faster then them. [/B][/QUOTE] ...It's not really thinking faster when you prepare it before hand.. it's only thinking faster if you decide on it spontaneously and still do it better. And tricks like that aren't going to get you a good grade.. You don't get asked in an exam "Add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 in under 10 seconds", you get asked things which involve actual thinking and don't have short-cuts. So yeah.. You'll be the one who looks stupid if you think that kind of thing can get you a good grade.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 i have one thing to say...... if math teachers are soooo smart as they say they are why do they need to look up all the answers in a little answer book?? hmm?? i wonder..... stitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Stitch [/i] [B]i have one thing to say...... if math teachers are soooo smart as they say they are why do they need to look up all the answers in a little answer book?? hmm?? i wonder..... stitch [/B][/QUOTE] Two reason (that I can think of): 1) Not everything they are teaching was taught to them. 2) You spend as much time as they do away from school and you will forget things too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Macaiodh Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Stitch [/i] [B]i have one thing to say...... if math teachers are soooo smart as they say they are why do they need to look up all the answers in a little answer book?? hmm?? i wonder..... stitch [/B][/QUOTE] [color=darkblue]then they'd have to figure out all the answers for themselves plus grade everything & teach the class. waaaay to much work. & if they made a mistake, they could mark an answer wrong when it's actually right. besides, if you were a college graduate, would you want to do all that boring work again? i think not. i know you were probably being facetious, but i couldn't help playing along.[/color]:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathGuy2 Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 H? That 5050 problem should be famous to everyone with any more interest in math than enough to pass the class. If I remember correctly, [font=Symbol,Greek]S[/font]k=1,n = n(n+1)/2 - that was in my geometry book. Juuthena, you mentioned that the math teacher wanted, in effect, 100! (100 factorial [product of 1 through 100])? That would be on the order of, oh, estimating as 5!(10^10)...(90^10)(100^5), approximately...3*10^147 in scientific notation. almost 150 decimal places. I used pencil and paper and a four-function calculator. Tell that to your teacher. Er, sorry about that. Here's one for your math teacher: Prove this limerick. "Integral z-squared dz / From one to the cube root of three / Times the cosine / Of three pi over nine / Equals log* of the cube root of e." *The natural log, "ln". He/she'll only be able to do it if he/she knows (and more importantly, remembers) calculus. On to something more interesting: this is my math teacher. (On a side not, he's a retired Air Force colonel who worked at a nuclear site during the Cold War.) He does know a lot, but he obviously is not the type that others have described here. [size=1]I never realized I would be posting under this screen name until halfway through my message.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by MathGuy2 [/i] [B]H? That 5050 problem should be famous to everyone with any more interest in math than enough to pass the class. If I remember correctly, [font=Symbol,Greek]S[/font]k=1,n = n(n+1)/2 - that was in my geometry book. Juuthena, you mentioned that the math teacher wanted, in effect, 100! (100 factorial [product of 1 through 100])? That would be on the order of, oh, estimating as 5!(10^10)...(90^10)(100^5), approximately...3*10^147 in scientific notation. almost 150 decimal places. I used pencil and paper and a four-function calculator. Tell that to your teacher. Er, sorry about that. Here's one for your math teacher: Prove this limerick. "Integral z-squared dz / From one to the cube root of three / Times the cosine / Of three pi over nine / Equals log* of the cube root of e." *The natural log, "ln". He/she'll only be able to do it if he/she knows (and more importantly, remembers) calculus. On to something more interesting: this is my math teacher. (On a .[/size] [/B][/QUOTE] [color=red] Uh...erm. I didn't understand [i]anything[/i] you said up above, lol. I feel dazzled. And I feel...somewhat over-blown in my mind. :cross: [/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted February 8, 2003 Share Posted February 8, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by master [/i] [B] tell them i will bet you cant add all the #s beetween 1-100 faster then I can. answer is 5050. how I did it was I took 100 and split it in half then add 1 to a 100 then multiply 50*101=5050 or ask him what are the chance of geting to heads in a row. you say you cant tell it could land on tails all i want or it can go heads tails heads tails all your life.[/B][/QUOTE] You should try to argue that math in itself is flawed because of 3/3. 1/3=.33333 repeating, 2/3=.6666 repeating, 3/3=.99999 repeating but they say it's one. Well 3/3 should be 1, but it's not so that screws everything up, especially in higher levels of math where being off by .001 screws everything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defcon5 Posted February 8, 2003 Share Posted February 8, 2003 Yeah, my math teacher, she works the homework problems out (no idea why) and gets them wrong at least once a day. Then when we correct her she always always always says "Well I was doing them late last night" Then once she was doing this problem on the board and she asked "Ok class, whats 16 divided by 4?" I responded with 5 (yes I know this is wrong). So she goes through the problem and then can't figure out why it didn't come out right. She could not for the life of her figure out what she did wrong till one of the other kids pointed out that 16 divided by 4 is not 5. I know I really shouldn't be doing this to her since it's hard to be a teacher and I am not the greatest at math, but, I just can't help it! Don't even get me started on my Art teacher, I really pissed her off today. "Stop tapping your pencils!" I continue tapping "Stop it!" "But this is a pen!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 9Eagle7Dragon Posted February 8, 2003 Share Posted February 8, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by master [/i] [B]your lucky are teachers arent like that here on the island we have to make the teachers look bad by thinking faster then them. [/B][/QUOTE] Hell yeah, it works. Now if you can ocasionally find an easier way to do the work, get the same answer as in the book, and completly reject what the teacher taught you... You'll have em' right where you want em'. I've done it b4. Here's a sample conversation. Me: Is this right? x = 12 Teach: No, you didn't follow the instructions at all. See you have to do [i]blah blah blah blah[/i] and that's how you get... x = 12. Me: That's what I got. Teach: You didn't do it right. See, you skipped all of these steps. You got the wrong answer. Me: No, it's the same answer as the right answer. Teach: But you didn't do it right. It's wrong. Me: It's still the SAME. Teach: I still wouldn't want to walk across your bridge if you were the engineer. Me: But the bridge is still [i]standing[/i]. It can be done. Math Morons unite!!! [quote]paintball guns rule.[/quote] ROCK ON!!! I'm the living unholy patron saint of paintball!!! It kicks to know that there are those who support our cause!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A. Rod. Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 My Algebra 1 teacher was a real idiot, and I'm struggling today due to her incompetance. My friend and I made her feel stupid by asking for her college degree, and it got her real fired up, so much that she didn't want to teach at the same school the following year, but it didn't benefit me as she decided to finish out the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalon Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 My 8th grade Algebra 1 teacher taught me nothing. We had an idiot substitute for months, and when a new permanent teacher arrived, he completely started over. He also made mistakes all the time so we had to correct him. He [B]told[/B] us he was stupid. Because of this, I do not know algebra. Which means for algebra 2 and most other math classes, I am completely screwed. Now I'm in 9th grade; my advanced geometry teacher is a genius. He has found mistakes in the math book. He knows everything about every known or unknown subject. I have always hated math, but I like this teacher. There is no way known to man to make him look stupid. Frankdog knows more math than God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 [QUOTE=darkismyman]i HATE my math teacher he's the WORST![/QUOTE] [COLOR=Red]Welcome to the OtakuBoards darkismyman. Please do not bring back long dead threads. This thread was last active back in 2003. If you feel this topic still has some discussion value we prefer you begin a new thread versus resurrecting an ancient one. Your response to this thread is not quite up to par as well. I suggest you review the Rules of the site before you continue posting. We have a pretty high standard when it comes to posting quality. For those reasons I am going to have to close this thread. If you have any questions about posting here on the OtakuBoards please feel free to PM myself or any of the other moderators on the site. Thanks! -Panda [/COLOR] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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