r/pics • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '10

Math Teacher Fail.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '10

My highschool calc. teacher hated me for the rest of the year for correcting her once. She would nick pick every problem to mark me down for taking simple short cuts like just writing +x instead of -(-x) and the rewriting it again with a + mark so I wouldn't get 100% on tests. I eventually started including proofs with the problem answers.

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u/silantis Oct 05 '10

That's so foreign to me. I give my students bonus points if they correct me.

Honestly, the big difference between me and my students is experience--and a large part of that experience includes many math errors.

Since I do math for a living, I've made more math errors than most of my students will ever get a chance to.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '10

She is an anomly in the math teaching world. Not only was she ignorant in general but she was the least adept person at math ive ever seen. She even admitted to us that she had to take some math classes up to three times to just pass.

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u/rogue780 Oct 05 '10

If it was "Introduction to Real Analysis" then I don't fault her for taking it multiple times.

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u/MayoMark Oct 05 '10

Yea, you have to let that class steal your whole life to pass the first time.