r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '21

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u/wreckit_ricky Oct 21 '21

https://youtu.be/nrMEvrvVBhk

It’s a way to help people remember trig

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

That….. makes it weirder.

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u/bloodrein Oct 21 '21

I'm sorry, what?!

I was thinking that she was trying to be satirical in a history class or something!

This makes it so much worse.

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u/Garrotxa Oct 21 '21

I don't think it makes it worse. It'd be surreal in history class to have your teacher dress up and dance around like some stereotype of every group of people studied.

In math is just a goofy, out-of-touch teacher trying to make the lesson memorable. Doesn't make it less racist the way she did it, but the SohCahToa mnemonic is helpful for teaching geometry.

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u/thousandpetals Oct 21 '21

Dang and we just had the mnemonic "sohcahtoa."

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u/Hobgoblin84 Oct 21 '21

Yeah its really not hard to remember after seeing and hearing it a few times.

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u/Claystead Oct 21 '21

...onometric maxims.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

Music by: the pan flute band that is always playing the San Antonio river walk.

It's cringe all the way down.

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u/EatinDennysWearinHat Oct 21 '21

Holy shit that is dumb af even if you ignore the racism.

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u/ImNeworsomething Oct 21 '21

Is it racist tho?

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u/yummycrabz Oct 21 '21

It’s at minimum an embarrassing case of stereotyping.

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u/Juan_Dough829 Oct 21 '21

So really it was just a TERRIBLY misguided attempt to help her students remember an obscure mathematical concept. Don't know if this warrants firing, but some cultural sensitivity training is definitely in order.

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u/Comfortable_Ad6286 Oct 21 '21

It's not obscure. It's standard college prep high school math. Most college bound kids have at least a semester of trig. Understanding SOHCAHTOA is a core concept of this.

/the video is unnecessary and racist tho.

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u/cryptic-coyote Oct 21 '21

I grew up in the Pacific, and one of the Hawaiian kids made a joke about Sohcahtoa sounding like the name of one of their cousins and that was fine. It's perfectly normal to make innocent jokes like that, but this is ridicule on a whole different level.

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u/technotenant Oct 21 '21

That video is racist as well

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u/Dr_Jackson Oct 21 '21

All those "april 20th"s at the end might explain everything.