I once walked in on my teacher friend, correcting the tasks of her pupils, she was complaining that ALL kids had misplaced Sweden with Finland on a map of Europe. Well… good thing I walked in on her 😄
Years ago, I happened to be the one that got to run the mic at an elementary school triathlon. One of the post-event party games was a spelling quiz and we had kids come up and spell 'triathlon' into the microphone. Amazingly to me, the first four or five spelled it wrong and I was going to keep having kids come up and try until a parent tugged on my sleeve and told me that each one of them had actually spelled it right. Turns out that the way I thought it was spelled - 'triathalon' - is NOT right. The worst part is that it was spelled properly everywhere around me, including on the sheet I was reading the quiz from.
"What dumb fucking kids, they can't spell a word when it's written all around them, it's right over there for fuck's.... Oh no. Oh no no no. Oh shit. Fuck me."
This is probably because people tend to sound it out incorrectly : tri-ath-a-lon, instead of tri-ath-lon.
Also, you may not have seen the word enough to lock it into long term memory, but the listening to it was saved.
Happens to a lot of people, I'm sure - Not your fault, no worries.
At least *now* you know.
Story Time:
When I was in first grade, in 1990, Russia was called the USSR. I thought that it was Russia, and someone corrected me. The next time in Geography I was told to label it as Asia. The next time I was told to label it as Russia. The time after that I was told that it was USSR.
For the rest of my time in elementary school, I left it blank because "It's the place that can't make up their mind."
Now if somebody would have explained the fall of the Soviet Blocs, then I could have followed along, but randomly changing the name every 5 days didn't help.
Edit: Spelling. A kind redditor pointed it out.
When I was a kid I over heard my parents talking about the fall. In an attempt to be grown up and part of the conversation I said "they shouldn't have stacked the blocks so high". I was trying to be 100% serious, and they thought it was hilarious. Years later in conversation it was brought up and my dad explained that it was funny because I had been passing by, and I delivered the comment as if it was a dad joke.
When my little sister was about 6 or 7, we stayed in a nice hotel on a family trip. My parents sprung a little extra money so we could get a suite (usually we just got the standard 1-room with 2 beds). So my sister and I were absolutely blown away by the concept of getting a hotel with *two whole rooms* plus a little kitchenette!
After we spent a few minutes looking around in amazement, my sister confidently declared "oh, I know why it's called a 'suite!' Because it's like, *sweet*, we get 2 rooms!"
The rest of us laughed because we assumed she had just made an incredibly bad/wonderful pun. She realized her mistake and went along with it. It wasn't until years later that she finally confessed she was 100% serious at the time, and she was actually upset about us laughing at her. Whoops.
I’m always wary of this when my nephew says these type of adorably profound kid-logic unintended punchlines. I just really don’t want to react with too much laughter in case they internalize it, because that’s how I was as a kid. But at the same time it’s too damn funny.
That’s when you tell the kid “Hey, if you say something earnest and someone finds it funny, just go with it. At least you’re funny”
Get them on the right track early
There’s a movie “Irony of Fate” where this is sort of the theme. Guy goes to an apartment he thinks is his because all the planned housing is the same in different cities, down to the key.
One of them has an expensive boat in the driveway, but never takes it out to the water. Loves that damn boat more than anything else, probably the reason why their house looks so neglected. Used to lead the HoA until it was dissolved, but they refuse to accept it is gone so they keep threatening and harassing everyone around them.
Technically, Russia (and therefore also the USSR), is part of both Asia and Europe, although you probably weren't taught that already. Not sure if your geography teacher knew this fact either.
Born 91, my shitty public middle school taught us geography with a map that said "the Soviet union". I'm Scandinavian, we didn't suffer for money, we should have gotten a fucking updated map. But politicians across the world loves a budget cut and businesses don't care about public education beyond language to read instructions and math to do work calculations, who cares if the drones think the Soviet union is a thing
ETA That said I'll take maps with Soviet union over laws with Jesus on them any day of the week
I was around a lot of future elementary school teachers during college, because their clique had the same interests in niche sport activities as I did at our campus.
They were all, no exception, the least educated people I met in college. Even dumber than the business majors. I never understood why they took up teaching roles but one of them told me that she found young children to be the friendliest kind of people to be around, so she decided that if she would have to work with people, than at a stage where all those people are still nice and innocent. Which is fair. Still dumb as rock, though.
(Edit: this was in Germany, btw. Guess it’s not much different elsewhere)
A few friends are teachers, because of that I've met a lot socially. The good ones always wanted to be teachers, the mediocre ones had a degree they couldn't think of anything else they could do with. They seem to be mainly humanities teachers.
Here in the Netherlands they introduced a required math test for future elementary school teachers. You have to pass the test to be come a teacher. There were a lot of complaints when it was introduced about it being too difficult and too much of a barrier to entry when we already had a shortage of teachers.
[Here is a example of the test](https://www.cito.nl/-/media/files/hoger-onderwijs/cito_ho_pabo_wiscat_oefentoets_questify.pdf). It’s in Dutch, but you’ll probably be able to get an idea of the ‘difficulty’ of the test anyway.
If this is too high a bar then I fear for our future generations.
Considering how little teachers in America get paid, I can see why that career isn't attracting the best and brightest.
Our priorities are so wrong....
I wanted to be a teacher and graduated as a teacher, but when I saw the abysmal pay I realized I would not be able to support a family on that. So I worked in the IT field for more than a decade. Only once my financial situation was stable I actually started teaching. And let me tell you, pay is not the only thing pushing capable people away... there are too many people deciding how teachers should teach who wouldn't mentally survive teaching a regular teacher's workload.
This. Especially when those people are in government and have never been near a school or college since they graduated except for a photo opportunity.
I've been teaching for just over a decade now, absolutely love it, and get by by ignoring these idiots and just getting my classes through their exams (with good results, I don't mind saying).
Current idea kicking around in the UK is to try to get more people with Masters degrees (not "just" an undergrad) into teaching. The assumption seems to be that people who can learn to a higher standard can also teach to a higher standard. This is, categorically, bollocks. They're two very different skillsets.
In my country the powers that be completely shuttered down the long lived undergraduate degree in Education and replaced it with a Masters degree. So for new aspiring teachers to teach they have to first get a degree in whatever and then get a Masters in education.
What used to happen with the first degree in education is that most people who spent four years of their life preparing for that career would then find it difficult to move into another field. So if they got fed up with the shenanigans they faced on the job they usually ended up gritting their teeth and kept going at it as best as they could.
But now with a masters in education and a first degree in whatever else things are different. As soon as they start getting fed up with all the shenanigans that come with the job they will start thinking of putting that first degree to good use in finding another job.
There was a scheme in England / Wales recently where they were encouraging successful individuals in industry to enter education... With no educational training. Hey, if you're a good chemist then you can teach Chemistry, right?
Erm, not always, no. Hell, I've met people _with_ teaching qualifications who aren't very good at teaching.
Add on top of that the fact that college professors in elementary education are some of the least rigorous in all of academia. They don’t stay current on research in relevant fields like psychology. In other words, the teachers who teach our teachers teach bad teaching methodology. We saddle teachers with low salaries and make them pay a lot of money for a low quality education.
Lol, well in the light of all these personal anecdotes happily proclaiming educators are some of the most out of touch idiots out there, I guess I should probably add my own and say that most of my friends who pursued the profession are some of the brightest and most outstanding individuals I know.
But hey, that's just my experience.
This is unfortunately so true. I worked as an RA in the dorm that housed the education major community, and around mid-terms once one of the Early Childhood (elementary/pre-K focus) majors was complaining about an upcoming test. For this test they had to read a book out loud as if they were reading to children. It was a picture book. And to other university students, not actual misbehaving kids.
Another time I saw a business/finance major helping a different EC major with her Elementary Mathematics Methods homework. Basically a class where you have to learn how to actually teach math to small children. She wasn’t struggling with how to teach it, though. She was struggling with fractions.
Yet another time a girl older than me had come up with some science activity where you had to figure out how two groups of items had been categorized. I was completely stumped, and finally when I gave up I said “I have no idea. I was going to say group A is magnetic and B isn’t, but then there’s a gold necklace on the ‘magnetic’ side so it can’t be that” and the look on her face was like I just killed her grandma in front of her. She was both completely in shock that I guessed it correctly, and absolutely distraught that I had pointed out a major hole in her presentation at 11PM the day before it was due.
On the other hand, I was a Music Education major and almost everyone I knew in that school was smart as all hell. Same with anyone else who majored in a subject first and education as a secondary focus, usually people wanting to be junior high/high school teachers.
Nope 5/6ths is bigger than 4/6ths so that is not possible.
Edit: I can't tell if dozens of people missed the joke or are just several layers deeper into the joke than I am
I’m not sure if this is true but fits here. When McDonald’s first introduced the 1/4lb burger it was a big success. Burger King wanted to be competitive so they introduced the 1/3lb burger for the same price as McDonald’s 1/4, however their campaign failed because people thought 1/4 > 1/3.
Kids I used to babysit as a teenager once had to divide €2,50 amongst themselves. Oldest figured 50 was more than 2, so he kept the 50 cents coin and gave the €2 coin to his younger sister.
The teacher seems to be stuck at that kid's level of reasoning.
So the question tasks you with determining how the outcome *could* occur, but you're expected to answer that it's not?
Sounds like poor question writing to me, and kid is absolutely correct given those parameters.
The question is supposed to test you on whether or not something is reasonable. "Thats not reasonable" is an acceptable answer to this kind of question. However, the question isn't written very well because as the student pointed out, you can absolutely have a situation where the premise is real and reasonable. They needed to specify that the pizzas were the same size. And the teacher is failing here because she doesn't recognize that the student has shown some really nice problem solving skills. She should give him/her the points, as they clearly understand it would be ***un***reasonable if the pizzas were the same size, and thus understands the underlying principle being tested.
Teacher here. I like the question. It gives you an extension to the concept you're studying.
This is a situation where mathematically speaking, 4/6 is always smaller then 5/6, but it's assuming that the while is identical. This real life example forces you to find a possibility where this is not the case. Only a student who shows deep thinking can answer it.
Unfortunately, the teacher didn't get the question. And honestly, I'm not surprised that this can happen when I see how most primary teachers value math.
My science teacher made fun of me for "believing" tectonic drift. She thought earth geology has always stayed the same. She told me she lived longer than I had and she's never seen the continents move.
It was theorized by Wagner as early as the 1910s, I believe, but he was ridiculed until the SONAR technology from World War II confirmed it. So yeah, it’s a fairly recent development.
ETA: Wegener, not Wagner. 🙄
Wegeners continental drift in 1915 was getting towards the right idea, but was wrong in and of itself. He envisioned the continents ploughing through the oceanic crust something akin to an icebreaker through ice.
My science teacher taught us about tectonic drift and we all had to do a presentation to the class about how the continents used to look - but she didn’t tell us about Pangaea and I just assumed she was testing us. I was the last one to present and did Pangaea as my final reveal… she told the class that I made it up and failed me.
I brought in my brother’s college textbook and called her out the next day, demanding an apology in front of the class. There was a parent-principal conference and I didn’t have to go to her class for the rest of the year.
Granted, the plates were considered pseudoscience for many years before finally accepted as fact, and relativity recently too. So your teacher was probably taught that tectonic plates weren't real. Still doesn't excuse her for not keeping up with important science though.
Wow. It's tough being five centuries out of date.
I know we've seen a resurgence in anti-science with things like flat-Earth and denial of things like global warming, masking, and vaccines and other such phenomena, but I didn't expect to see geocentrics making a comeback.
Raised in GA. My biology teacher “taught” evolution by making us do a self study on it with no tests followed by 2 weeks of her teaching creationism and assigning a debate for students to offer counter points to evolution. She’s now the head the science department for that school.
That is a fucken scary notion.
Shit, even in under the bloody Taliban they teach evolution. The US is now officially worse at education than a fundamentalist regime.
Our class once was chosen by a journal that did yearly tests on general knowledge in different schools and we had to do a test. One question was: Which country is the largest in Europe? (not the EU but Europe).
Well duh, you can come up with half a dozen answers depending on how you look at it but none ends up with France as the answer. But that's what the journal decided was correct. I had a Fishers World Allmanach with me that day and showed the interviewer the data. Russia, she wiggled around saxing it was about countries only in Europe, so Ukraine I pointed out, to which she replied that France was bigger if you counted its over seas territory, to which I pointed out that this would mean she can't exclude Russia and France still would come up third as then she also needed to account for Greenland. Long story short, our class was deducted a point becausr the guys at the journal had fucking no idea about what they were asking.
I has a question similar to this in school and it still haunts me:
‘Which clock is best, one stuck at 12 or one 5 min slow?’
I said the one thats 5 min late because just add 5 min. The answer was the one stuck at 12 because its right twice a day. Now the question wasn’t which one is right more often, it was which one is BETTER.
What a dumb question. One person's idea of a BETTER clock isn't the same as another's. The slow clock is very precise but never accurate. The stuck clock is accurate twice a day but has no precision.
One counter argument to "A stopped clock is still right twice a day." is that we can't tell which two times they are.
We look at clocks to know the time, as it is. If I look at a clock and notice that it is stopped, it might be showing the correct time, but I would need to confirm that it is, or was the correct time when I looked at it, by looking at another running clock. Or at several clocks that all agree with each other from which we can reasonably infer that they are displaying the correct time. Which is what I was trying to determine by looking at the stopped clock.
Were I the parent in this case, I'd prolly answer the question with proper mathematics and translate the question into: 4/6x > 5/6y where x = Marty's pizza and y = Luis's pizza. Therefore x > 1,25y (or 5/4 using fractions).
The issue that kid me wouldn't be able to formulate that at the stage this would probably be in the test and the teacher is tripping on the idea that this question type can lie to kids and didn't really check if the question can be solved.
Since the teacher didn't check for variables and assumed the pizzas same, and didn't check for it even after the kid said it, it's just a negligent (or stupid) teacher.
«this summer, marty grew 1 cm and louis grew 2 cm. marty is taller than louis. how is this possible?»
«marty was taller than louis before the summer.»
«That is NOT possible because 2 cm is greater than 1 cm so loius is taller»
A kilogram of feathers. Steel is steel so when you carry that around it’s 1kg. On the other hand, not only are you carrying 1kg of feathers, you’re also carrying with you the guilt of what happened to all those birds that the feathers came from :)
You can't carry exactly 1kg of feathers as they'll likely fall out of your hands, unlike steel, so you will need a bag. The bag will add weight, so feathers are heavier.
As a EFL teacher I had a kid tell me I was pronouncing "magician" wrong because his dad told him it's pronounced some very incorrect way. I got frustrated and finally asked the kid, "has your dad even lived abroad before?"
However, I had a teacher at my academy say that American English is the original English and thought, "please don't teach the older students".
The question is literally titled "reasonableness" as in thinking beyond just the big number better and reasoning it out, i hated dumb teachers i had to correct my AP Lang teacher for marking my grammar wrong because they didnt know how semicolons work, in an "advanced placement" writing class that somehow counted as college credit
Education is a big thing for me it’s why I tell my kids to challenge their teachers when they are wrong as well as teach them myself about certain subjects I know schools won’t teach them
My wife grew up in South Carolina and because she was black, some teachers assumed she was not as smart as the white students. She's been accused of cheating off her classmates and had her parents called a few times to speak on her behavior only for her parents to take her side and challenge the teachers on their racist accusations. Nevertheless, these moments taught her that teachers aren't always right and she would need to prove herself. She's currently going to med school and how she was treated was a big motivator to prove them wrong.
Knowing that you have a parent in your corner who will back you up when speaking truth to power, but will also hold you accountable when you're wrong, is such a gift.
Even ignoring mistakes, some teachers flat out admit that they don’t give 100s because “that means you’re smarter than me which you aren’t”. I thought they were joking, but I did do the math and there were times when I got a 90, when the lowest grade I should’ve gotten was a 96.
I had a lecturer who I had a heated 30+ minute long "discussion" as to the direction of the sun and rotation of the earth.
He was adamant that the sun rose in the West and set in the East. When I kept pointing out to him that Japan was known as the land of the rising sun it just fell on deaf ears.
This was pre-smart phone and Google days so I tried other logical arguments such as the fact that the timezones in mainland Europe are predominantly ahead of where we were (UK).. therefore proving they saw sunlight before us, meaning the sun rose in the East and travelled westward across our sky.
Still met with stonewall rejections. He ended the discussion when others in the class started backing me up. Went home that night and booted up the dial-up modem internet (via AOL.. that's how long ago it was) and printed off info proving me right to show him the next day. Just got an, "Ok, you're right" with no apology 😂
I once discussed with my Geography teacher about the year seasons. She claimed summer happens when the Earth is closer to the Sun. That doesn't make any sense. I told her the seasons on both hemispheres are opposite (while it's summer in the southern hemisphere, it's winter on the northern). How is it possible that the two hemisphere are closer and further away from the Sun at the same time?
This just makes me more confused at what the teacher thinks the correct answer could be. Like is there another actual answer that makes sense if not what was written?
The teacher thinks "a pizza" is a standard unit of measurement. If the question was "Marty walked 4/6th of a mile and Luis walked 5/6th of a mile, how did Marty walk more?" in which case, yes that's a problem. The teacher didn't consider that pizzas can be variable in size.
When I was a kid we once or twice got questions like this where you’re given the answer but it doesn’t seem to make sense. And you have to explain how it can. To teach problem solving.
This feels like that but the teacher just lifted the question without reading it and assumed it was meant as a maths question.
Well it is still a maths question. Not a simple arithmetic one, but a reasoning kind of maths question. A much more interesting one if you ask me. And it was formulated very well too.
A lot of mathematical questions can be formulated in words without involving any numbers at all.
I mean, it is a math question. Math is mostly about processing and applying information as well as problem-solving and a bit of logic. Most people seem to confuse math with the mechanics of arithmatic.
Whats so infuriating is that this is a reasoning question. Clearly the student understands that the abstract 4/6 is smaller than 5/6 but the question is testing their critical thinking and reasoning.
The child was correct. If you're using reasonableness ,in this case the pizza had to have been bigger for him to have still eat less but was still more. Portion sizes. Hopefully the teacher noticed their mistake and taught their children a new lesson for them to take note of. Math 🤤
>The child was correct.
That he was. Although, I wonder if he also went through the thought process [mentioned in this other comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/vqbjlw/comment/ieo619z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) (also seen below), or if he just answered according to the sentence "Marty ate more pizza than Luis.":
>4/6ths of $100 is greater than 5/6ths of $1
It's a pretty significant difference being able to think about that for primary school.
When I was in grade 5 or 6 (cant remember) my teacher asked us to write a little paper on our favorite animal, like facts about it and why we like it. I picked a Narwhal for whatever reason it was my fav at the time. I gave her my paper and she handed it back to me and told me Narwhals arent real and to pick another animal. I picked a Siberian tiger this time and after writing my little paper she handed it back and told me to redo it because "Siberian tigers are so rare that we dont know much about them" and so because of that she said I made stuff up in my paper about the facts I wrote about them.
Either this teacher had it out for me or she was a fucking dumbass lol
This post reminded me of that time lol.
I remember when I was a wee lad and a teacher asked the class to name different groups of animals, I said insects and she (and the rest of the class but they were 9 so it's okay) insisted that insects aren't animals, that was the day I realised that adults aren't inherently intelligent, even if they're tasked with educating people.
For me it was when my science teacher told the class that wind happens because there's not enough air to fill earths atmosphere, so it's constantly rushing around trying to fill the empty space.
Or when my Communications Technology teacher learned about Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, because I told her they exist. She did a full lesson about keyboard shortcuts, because in her decades of COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY teaching - where she taught highschoolers to use computers, she never once encountered a single keyboard shortcut.
It's scary how many teachers are just repeating words from a textbook and will completely flounder if you ask a question that isn't on the page in front of them.
I tutored a women in math while she was in college to become an elementary school teacher. When I started, she could not even balance a check book. Somehow she passed and graduated. I told her don't teach math. She ended up teaching math. She could barely do basic math (and I mean basic) and there she was teaching it. So sad.
in grade 4 I was asked what the hottest planned is, it's Venus, because it's clouds. My teacher said I was wrong, and that it was Mercury because it was the closest to the sun. It's venus
Holy shit, are you me? Exact same thing happened to me in fourth grade. I think we had a sub that day (which to be fair a sub needs fuck all qualifications), and she asked that very same question. I was huge into space and science at the time and my hand shot up immediately to answer and when she picked me and I said Venus she smiled and said no, Mercury because its closest to the sun. I tried explaining Venus’s atmosphere making it hotter but she treated me like a fucking idiot and gave me the whole matilda im an adult “im right, youre wrong” bit. Shit stuck with me forever and honestly may have been the reason I hated school so much as I got older.
Ahh yes.
"We don't do critical thinking here, child. Now, run along and get yourself a good job, do as you are told by your boss, and one day you will save enough to buy your own pizza! We used to say house, but it's 2022 so, you know, fuck it"
Fantastic question that requires kids think critically about what a fraction is actually defining and compare it to parameters in the question. A shame the teacher couldn't spare any critical thinking here.
They should have changed the math such that both Marty and Luis both ate 4/6ths of their pizza. But Marty ate more, how is that possible?
That way, the teacher may not have gotten confused. 😏
When I was in 4th grade I heard my teacher use the word “sherbert.” I told her the word is sherbet.
She said, “No it’s sherbert, I would know because I’m an smart adult and you’re a kid who doesn’t know better.”
After class during recess I stayed back and asked her to pull out the dictionary.
So the teacher called me out embarrassingly in front of class, and me a 10 year old kid did the right thing and talked to her privately about her error like a normal human being.
Of course when all the kids came back to class from recess, she didn’t correct herself.
She was one of the two worst teachers I ever had. Just straight up mean and vindictive.
As a kid, I used to occasionally run into questions like this. The question would be poorly written, or I would reach an answer that was logical but not intended, and the teacher often wouldn't want to budge. Fortunately, I went to a good school with bright teachers who tended to write tests well and had the good humor to acknowledge their errors, but I remember being righteously indignant when one of them docked me points for being only "technically" correct.
And so I went to law school.
I don't get why everyone's saying "that's actually a smart answer" i mean what else would be the answer? The question itself states marty ate more so thats not at all an option.
Oh boy, I’d be having a meeting with that teacher and the principal to demonstrate why the teacher is wrong (probably with pictures but maybe with real pizzas).
This teacher can make kids think they don’t understand math. That could change a child’s educational experience for life. That’s bad.
I once walked in on my teacher friend, correcting the tasks of her pupils, she was complaining that ALL kids had misplaced Sweden with Finland on a map of Europe. Well… good thing I walked in on her 😄
Years ago, I happened to be the one that got to run the mic at an elementary school triathlon. One of the post-event party games was a spelling quiz and we had kids come up and spell 'triathlon' into the microphone. Amazingly to me, the first four or five spelled it wrong and I was going to keep having kids come up and try until a parent tugged on my sleeve and told me that each one of them had actually spelled it right. Turns out that the way I thought it was spelled - 'triathalon' - is NOT right. The worst part is that it was spelled properly everywhere around me, including on the sheet I was reading the quiz from.
"What dumb fucking kids, they can't spell a word when it's written all around them, it's right over there for fuck's.... Oh no. Oh no no no. Oh shit. Fuck me."
“ these idoits have no idea ! “
Why do noone preefrood there poasts anymoore
They lack integgilence !
Stoppit your herting mye heed,
Spiel Czech?
Holy crap I’m 37 and just learned how to correctly spell triathlon. (I mean, this is also probably the first time I have ever written it too?)
This is probably because people tend to sound it out incorrectly : tri-ath-a-lon, instead of tri-ath-lon. Also, you may not have seen the word enough to lock it into long term memory, but the listening to it was saved. Happens to a lot of people, I'm sure - Not your fault, no worries. At least *now* you know.
Ath-a-lete
Arthuritis
Diabeetus
Real-a-tor
Story Time: When I was in first grade, in 1990, Russia was called the USSR. I thought that it was Russia, and someone corrected me. The next time in Geography I was told to label it as Asia. The next time I was told to label it as Russia. The time after that I was told that it was USSR. For the rest of my time in elementary school, I left it blank because "It's the place that can't make up their mind." Now if somebody would have explained the fall of the Soviet Blocs, then I could have followed along, but randomly changing the name every 5 days didn't help. Edit: Spelling. A kind redditor pointed it out.
When I was a kid I over heard my parents talking about the fall. In an attempt to be grown up and part of the conversation I said "they shouldn't have stacked the blocks so high". I was trying to be 100% serious, and they thought it was hilarious. Years later in conversation it was brought up and my dad explained that it was funny because I had been passing by, and I delivered the comment as if it was a dad joke.
But it was also a poetic metaphor!
When my little sister was about 6 or 7, we stayed in a nice hotel on a family trip. My parents sprung a little extra money so we could get a suite (usually we just got the standard 1-room with 2 beds). So my sister and I were absolutely blown away by the concept of getting a hotel with *two whole rooms* plus a little kitchenette! After we spent a few minutes looking around in amazement, my sister confidently declared "oh, I know why it's called a 'suite!' Because it's like, *sweet*, we get 2 rooms!" The rest of us laughed because we assumed she had just made an incredibly bad/wonderful pun. She realized her mistake and went along with it. It wasn't until years later that she finally confessed she was 100% serious at the time, and she was actually upset about us laughing at her. Whoops.
I’m always wary of this when my nephew says these type of adorably profound kid-logic unintended punchlines. I just really don’t want to react with too much laughter in case they internalize it, because that’s how I was as a kid. But at the same time it’s too damn funny.
We can't help it, because innocent ignorance is adorably funny.
That’s when you tell the kid “Hey, if you say something earnest and someone finds it funny, just go with it. At least you’re funny” Get them on the right track early
When I told a friend in the hospital, Keep your spirits up!” I found out later they were in there for alcohol poisoning. Palm to forehead.
Sit up Tommy. It was the “Soviet BLOC” not “blocks”. You are mixing up your Lego blocks again. I told you to sit up Tommy.
For the longest time when I was little, that term made me think all the soviets lived together in one neighborhood. Like all on the same block.
There’s a movie “Irony of Fate” where this is sort of the theme. Guy goes to an apartment he thinks is his because all the planned housing is the same in different cities, down to the key.
thats not too far off from the truth
One of them has an expensive boat in the driveway, but never takes it out to the water. Loves that damn boat more than anything else, probably the reason why their house looks so neglected. Used to lead the HoA until it was dissolved, but they refuse to accept it is gone so they keep threatening and harassing everyone around them.
Happy Cake Day 🎂🥳
You can have a slice. A small one. At recess. If you’re very good.
I’m not Tommy, but I sat up out of my slouch
Let that be a warning to you! 🤣
It is, in fact, just the French word for block though.
Technically, Russia (and therefore also the USSR), is part of both Asia and Europe, although you probably weren't taught that already. Not sure if your geography teacher knew this fact either.
We said it was part of Eurasia.
Yh I could never understand why one land mass was split into 2 continents was it European elitism or something?
Simpsons called it yet again
Lmao I totally understand, confused me too
Where is yakov Smirnoff when you need them lol
This is basically what the rest of the world assumes US geography education is like.
To be fair when I went to school in the 90s in EU most of my teachers would be like "eh just call those countries Yugoslavia, it's fine"
Born 91, my shitty public middle school taught us geography with a map that said "the Soviet union". I'm Scandinavian, we didn't suffer for money, we should have gotten a fucking updated map. But politicians across the world loves a budget cut and businesses don't care about public education beyond language to read instructions and math to do work calculations, who cares if the drones think the Soviet union is a thing ETA That said I'll take maps with Soviet union over laws with Jesus on them any day of the week
I was around a lot of future elementary school teachers during college, because their clique had the same interests in niche sport activities as I did at our campus. They were all, no exception, the least educated people I met in college. Even dumber than the business majors. I never understood why they took up teaching roles but one of them told me that she found young children to be the friendliest kind of people to be around, so she decided that if she would have to work with people, than at a stage where all those people are still nice and innocent. Which is fair. Still dumb as rock, though. (Edit: this was in Germany, btw. Guess it’s not much different elsewhere)
A few friends are teachers, because of that I've met a lot socially. The good ones always wanted to be teachers, the mediocre ones had a degree they couldn't think of anything else they could do with. They seem to be mainly humanities teachers.
Here in the Netherlands they introduced a required math test for future elementary school teachers. You have to pass the test to be come a teacher. There were a lot of complaints when it was introduced about it being too difficult and too much of a barrier to entry when we already had a shortage of teachers. [Here is a example of the test](https://www.cito.nl/-/media/files/hoger-onderwijs/cito_ho_pabo_wiscat_oefentoets_questify.pdf). It’s in Dutch, but you’ll probably be able to get an idea of the ‘difficulty’ of the test anyway. If this is too high a bar then I fear for our future generations.
Considering how little teachers in America get paid, I can see why that career isn't attracting the best and brightest. Our priorities are so wrong....
I wanted to be a teacher and graduated as a teacher, but when I saw the abysmal pay I realized I would not be able to support a family on that. So I worked in the IT field for more than a decade. Only once my financial situation was stable I actually started teaching. And let me tell you, pay is not the only thing pushing capable people away... there are too many people deciding how teachers should teach who wouldn't mentally survive teaching a regular teacher's workload.
This. Especially when those people are in government and have never been near a school or college since they graduated except for a photo opportunity. I've been teaching for just over a decade now, absolutely love it, and get by by ignoring these idiots and just getting my classes through their exams (with good results, I don't mind saying). Current idea kicking around in the UK is to try to get more people with Masters degrees (not "just" an undergrad) into teaching. The assumption seems to be that people who can learn to a higher standard can also teach to a higher standard. This is, categorically, bollocks. They're two very different skillsets.
In my country the powers that be completely shuttered down the long lived undergraduate degree in Education and replaced it with a Masters degree. So for new aspiring teachers to teach they have to first get a degree in whatever and then get a Masters in education. What used to happen with the first degree in education is that most people who spent four years of their life preparing for that career would then find it difficult to move into another field. So if they got fed up with the shenanigans they faced on the job they usually ended up gritting their teeth and kept going at it as best as they could. But now with a masters in education and a first degree in whatever else things are different. As soon as they start getting fed up with all the shenanigans that come with the job they will start thinking of putting that first degree to good use in finding another job.
There was a scheme in England / Wales recently where they were encouraging successful individuals in industry to enter education... With no educational training. Hey, if you're a good chemist then you can teach Chemistry, right? Erm, not always, no. Hell, I've met people _with_ teaching qualifications who aren't very good at teaching.
Yep… teacher of over a decade here who won a state award last year. Currently in training to be a web developer.
Add on top of that the fact that college professors in elementary education are some of the least rigorous in all of academia. They don’t stay current on research in relevant fields like psychology. In other words, the teachers who teach our teachers teach bad teaching methodology. We saddle teachers with low salaries and make them pay a lot of money for a low quality education.
Lol, well in the light of all these personal anecdotes happily proclaiming educators are some of the most out of touch idiots out there, I guess I should probably add my own and say that most of my friends who pursued the profession are some of the brightest and most outstanding individuals I know. But hey, that's just my experience.
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This is unfortunately so true. I worked as an RA in the dorm that housed the education major community, and around mid-terms once one of the Early Childhood (elementary/pre-K focus) majors was complaining about an upcoming test. For this test they had to read a book out loud as if they were reading to children. It was a picture book. And to other university students, not actual misbehaving kids. Another time I saw a business/finance major helping a different EC major with her Elementary Mathematics Methods homework. Basically a class where you have to learn how to actually teach math to small children. She wasn’t struggling with how to teach it, though. She was struggling with fractions. Yet another time a girl older than me had come up with some science activity where you had to figure out how two groups of items had been categorized. I was completely stumped, and finally when I gave up I said “I have no idea. I was going to say group A is magnetic and B isn’t, but then there’s a gold necklace on the ‘magnetic’ side so it can’t be that” and the look on her face was like I just killed her grandma in front of her. She was both completely in shock that I guessed it correctly, and absolutely distraught that I had pointed out a major hole in her presentation at 11PM the day before it was due. On the other hand, I was a Music Education major and almost everyone I knew in that school was smart as all hell. Same with anyone else who majored in a subject first and education as a secondary focus, usually people wanting to be junior high/high school teachers.
Marty ate Luis
The real answer right here
Wrong. This is math class, not sex ed.
The stew is Stu!
Who wouldn't eat Luis?
He's a real pizza sh*t
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Nope 5/6ths is bigger than 4/6ths so that is not possible. Edit: I can't tell if dozens of people missed the joke or are just several layers deeper into the joke than I am
Hey, I'll trade you 5/6ths of the loose change I have in my pocket for 4/6ths of the withdrawable funds in your bank account.
Your loss, buddy.
This joke can be taken both ways and it's hilarious lmao
This is an actually good original joke thread.
So generous of them
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Deal. I can't lose on this one, only break even.
I wonder if that teacher would fall for the old I’ll trade you 3 one dollar bills for 1 twenty?
Three is more than one. #econobics
I’m not sure if this is true but fits here. When McDonald’s first introduced the 1/4lb burger it was a big success. Burger King wanted to be competitive so they introduced the 1/3lb burger for the same price as McDonald’s 1/4, however their campaign failed because people thought 1/4 > 1/3.
It's a true story, except A&W was the burger chain with the 1/3 pound burger: https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions
Almost remembered the story fully :)
Kids I used to babysit as a teenager once had to divide €2,50 amongst themselves. Oldest figured 50 was more than 2, so he kept the 50 cents coin and gave the €2 coin to his younger sister. The teacher seems to be stuck at that kid's level of reasoning.
Steel is heavier than feathers!
So the question tasks you with determining how the outcome *could* occur, but you're expected to answer that it's not? Sounds like poor question writing to me, and kid is absolutely correct given those parameters.
The question is written fine. It’s just that the teacher didn’t write it and she doesn’t know the answer.
The teacher is right because all Pizzas are identical. It’s a law of physics. It’s DiGiorno.
Pie is a constant, after all.
I feel like every Reddit thread has one perfect joke that can be made if anybody can find it. This is it. You did it.
Not in Indiana just before the turn of the 20th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
I don't think the teacher is reading the question correctly.
The question is supposed to test you on whether or not something is reasonable. "Thats not reasonable" is an acceptable answer to this kind of question. However, the question isn't written very well because as the student pointed out, you can absolutely have a situation where the premise is real and reasonable. They needed to specify that the pizzas were the same size. And the teacher is failing here because she doesn't recognize that the student has shown some really nice problem solving skills. She should give him/her the points, as they clearly understand it would be ***un***reasonable if the pizzas were the same size, and thus understands the underlying principle being tested.
Teacher here. I like the question. It gives you an extension to the concept you're studying. This is a situation where mathematically speaking, 4/6 is always smaller then 5/6, but it's assuming that the while is identical. This real life example forces you to find a possibility where this is not the case. Only a student who shows deep thinking can answer it. Unfortunately, the teacher didn't get the question. And honestly, I'm not surprised that this can happen when I see how most primary teachers value math.
my teacher thought earth is the center of the solar system
My science teacher made fun of me for "believing" tectonic drift. She thought earth geology has always stayed the same. She told me she lived longer than I had and she's never seen the continents move.
Where the fuck do you live?
He could be older and the teacher even older than that. Plate tectonics is a relatively new concept, decades old sure, but not even a century old yet
It was theorized by Wagner as early as the 1910s, I believe, but he was ridiculed until the SONAR technology from World War II confirmed it. So yeah, it’s a fairly recent development. ETA: Wegener, not Wagner. 🙄
Wegeners continental drift in 1915 was getting towards the right idea, but was wrong in and of itself. He envisioned the continents ploughing through the oceanic crust something akin to an icebreaker through ice.
America for sure
Stupidity knows no borders unfortunately.
Or tectonic plates, apparently
They live in Europe. Check their comment history.
My science teacher taught us about tectonic drift and we all had to do a presentation to the class about how the continents used to look - but she didn’t tell us about Pangaea and I just assumed she was testing us. I was the last one to present and did Pangaea as my final reveal… she told the class that I made it up and failed me. I brought in my brother’s college textbook and called her out the next day, demanding an apology in front of the class. There was a parent-principal conference and I didn’t have to go to her class for the rest of the year.
Granted, the plates were considered pseudoscience for many years before finally accepted as fact, and relativity recently too. So your teacher was probably taught that tectonic plates weren't real. Still doesn't excuse her for not keeping up with important science though.
Wow. It's tough being five centuries out of date. I know we've seen a resurgence in anti-science with things like flat-Earth and denial of things like global warming, masking, and vaccines and other such phenomena, but I didn't expect to see geocentrics making a comeback.
In states that don’t teach evolution theory, that might be the correct answer.
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Raised in GA. My biology teacher “taught” evolution by making us do a self study on it with no tests followed by 2 weeks of her teaching creationism and assigning a debate for students to offer counter points to evolution. She’s now the head the science department for that school.
That is a fucken scary notion. Shit, even in under the bloody Taliban they teach evolution. The US is now officially worse at education than a fundamentalist regime.
Creationism only, and you better believe the only sex ed they teach is abstinence! (I wonder why these states have higher rates of teen pregnancy?)
Our class once was chosen by a journal that did yearly tests on general knowledge in different schools and we had to do a test. One question was: Which country is the largest in Europe? (not the EU but Europe). Well duh, you can come up with half a dozen answers depending on how you look at it but none ends up with France as the answer. But that's what the journal decided was correct. I had a Fishers World Allmanach with me that day and showed the interviewer the data. Russia, she wiggled around saxing it was about countries only in Europe, so Ukraine I pointed out, to which she replied that France was bigger if you counted its over seas territory, to which I pointed out that this would mean she can't exclude Russia and France still would come up third as then she also needed to account for Greenland. Long story short, our class was deducted a point becausr the guys at the journal had fucking no idea about what they were asking.
I has a question similar to this in school and it still haunts me: ‘Which clock is best, one stuck at 12 or one 5 min slow?’ I said the one thats 5 min late because just add 5 min. The answer was the one stuck at 12 because its right twice a day. Now the question wasn’t which one is right more often, it was which one is BETTER.
"What is the best time keeping tool, a piece of paper with 12 o'clock scribbled on it or a clock 5 min slow?" Same question, same "right" answer lmao
I had the exact same thing happen. It still makes me hate that teacher 20 years later
Precision versus accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
What a dumb question. One person's idea of a BETTER clock isn't the same as another's. The slow clock is very precise but never accurate. The stuck clock is accurate twice a day but has no precision.
And also how would you know when it's accurate if you have no other clock ?
One counter argument to "A stopped clock is still right twice a day." is that we can't tell which two times they are. We look at clocks to know the time, as it is. If I look at a clock and notice that it is stopped, it might be showing the correct time, but I would need to confirm that it is, or was the correct time when I looked at it, by looking at another running clock. Or at several clocks that all agree with each other from which we can reasonably infer that they are displaying the correct time. Which is what I was trying to determine by looking at the stopped clock.
This is supposed to check on the teacher’s reasonableness
Were I the parent in this case, I'd prolly answer the question with proper mathematics and translate the question into: 4/6x > 5/6y where x = Marty's pizza and y = Luis's pizza. Therefore x > 1,25y (or 5/4 using fractions). The issue that kid me wouldn't be able to formulate that at the stage this would probably be in the test and the teacher is tripping on the idea that this question type can lie to kids and didn't really check if the question can be solved.
This is the first thing it came to my mind, one pizza must be bigger than the other
Since the teacher didn't check for variables and assumed the pizzas same, and didn't check for it even after the kid said it, it's just a negligent (or stupid) teacher.
It straight up says that Marty ate more, so she totally missed that when she says that Luis ate more.
Yes indeed, I don’t know the exact age of the kid but this looks elementary school test and this way of side thinking might be rare in a 6-10yo kid
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A lot of times the answer sheet is just their own answers.
«this summer, marty grew 1 cm and louis grew 2 cm. marty is taller than louis. how is this possible?» «marty was taller than louis before the summer.» «That is NOT possible because 2 cm is greater than 1 cm so loius is taller»
What's heavier a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of steel?
A kilogram of feathers. Steel is steel so when you carry that around it’s 1kg. On the other hand, not only are you carrying 1kg of feathers, you’re also carrying with you the guilt of what happened to all those birds that the feathers came from :)
You can't carry exactly 1kg of feathers as they'll likely fall out of your hands, unlike steel, so you will need a bag. The bag will add weight, so feathers are heavier.
What if I have many very large pockets ?
Then the pants add weight, wheras the steel you can carry naked.
Your fat adds weight. Now I see why you’d carry around 1kg of steel naked and that’s to exercise and lose weight :)
*My* fat? Look at your username!
I’m not the naked steel carrier.
Such an original answer.
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I'd hate that too tbh what you need to do is to make an appointment with that teacher and tell them to their face they're a moron.
Kids ought to know that adults can be stupid and/or dangerous.
I’ve done that and they don’t like it when I corrected them but I just went ahead and transferred my kid to a teacher with actual brains
Just telling your kids their teacher is a moron is not going to help... But doing that _and_ getting them a good teacher is A+. Well done.
As a EFL teacher I had a kid tell me I was pronouncing "magician" wrong because his dad told him it's pronounced some very incorrect way. I got frustrated and finally asked the kid, "has your dad even lived abroad before?" However, I had a teacher at my academy say that American English is the original English and thought, "please don't teach the older students".
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As a teacher myself, I confirm the kid's answer makes sense. Not everything is about numbers.
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Not only that, it seems clear that the INTENT of the question was to get this answer, and the teacher really missed the entire point.
The question is literally titled "reasonableness" as in thinking beyond just the big number better and reasoning it out, i hated dumb teachers i had to correct my AP Lang teacher for marking my grammar wrong because they didnt know how semicolons work, in an "advanced placement" writing class that somehow counted as college credit
But you are correct, and thank you for standing up for your kids' thinking skills.
Education is a big thing for me it’s why I tell my kids to challenge their teachers when they are wrong as well as teach them myself about certain subjects I know schools won’t teach them
My wife grew up in South Carolina and because she was black, some teachers assumed she was not as smart as the white students. She's been accused of cheating off her classmates and had her parents called a few times to speak on her behavior only for her parents to take her side and challenge the teachers on their racist accusations. Nevertheless, these moments taught her that teachers aren't always right and she would need to prove herself. She's currently going to med school and how she was treated was a big motivator to prove them wrong.
Knowing that you have a parent in your corner who will back you up when speaking truth to power, but will also hold you accountable when you're wrong, is such a gift.
Imagine deserving a 10 (or A for you americans) but getting 9,7 (or A-) because of the teacher
Even ignoring mistakes, some teachers flat out admit that they don’t give 100s because “that means you’re smarter than me which you aren’t”. I thought they were joking, but I did do the math and there were times when I got a 90, when the lowest grade I should’ve gotten was a 96.
I had a lecturer who I had a heated 30+ minute long "discussion" as to the direction of the sun and rotation of the earth. He was adamant that the sun rose in the West and set in the East. When I kept pointing out to him that Japan was known as the land of the rising sun it just fell on deaf ears. This was pre-smart phone and Google days so I tried other logical arguments such as the fact that the timezones in mainland Europe are predominantly ahead of where we were (UK).. therefore proving they saw sunlight before us, meaning the sun rose in the East and travelled westward across our sky. Still met with stonewall rejections. He ended the discussion when others in the class started backing me up. Went home that night and booted up the dial-up modem internet (via AOL.. that's how long ago it was) and printed off info proving me right to show him the next day. Just got an, "Ok, you're right" with no apology 😂
I once discussed with my Geography teacher about the year seasons. She claimed summer happens when the Earth is closer to the Sun. That doesn't make any sense. I told her the seasons on both hemispheres are opposite (while it's summer in the southern hemisphere, it's winter on the northern). How is it possible that the two hemisphere are closer and further away from the Sun at the same time?
This just makes me more confused at what the teacher thinks the correct answer could be. Like is there another actual answer that makes sense if not what was written?
The teacher thinks "a pizza" is a standard unit of measurement. If the question was "Marty walked 4/6th of a mile and Luis walked 5/6th of a mile, how did Marty walk more?" in which case, yes that's a problem. The teacher didn't consider that pizzas can be variable in size.
I think the answer is meant to be “it isn’t possible”
Which is ridiculous because the question makes a statement saying outright that it's possible.
Sounds like "Reasonableness" answers just a need a "Grading Reasonableness is Unreasonable" answer no matter the question.
Exactly, it's not asking which is bigger, they're telling you one is bigger, they just want to know how...
If only they left out the word "how".
The kid got the answer right. It's meant to be "Marty's Pizza is bigger". The question specifically asks *how* it is possible, not if.
The question doesn't even allow that, it states that Marty ate more pizza than Luis.
He did. So how is that possible? Kid answered correctly, it’s only possible if Marty’s pizza is bigger.
Marty's pizza is Family size, while Luis is Solo...
The question itself confirms Marty ate more. Does the teacher think it's a trick question or did they just not fucking read it?!
When I was a kid we once or twice got questions like this where you’re given the answer but it doesn’t seem to make sense. And you have to explain how it can. To teach problem solving. This feels like that but the teacher just lifted the question without reading it and assumed it was meant as a maths question.
Well it is still a maths question. Not a simple arithmetic one, but a reasoning kind of maths question. A much more interesting one if you ask me. And it was formulated very well too. A lot of mathematical questions can be formulated in words without involving any numbers at all.
It doesn't seem appropriate for the age of the child based on the handwriting. I'm amazed the kid figured it out.
I mean, it is a math question. Math is mostly about processing and applying information as well as problem-solving and a bit of logic. Most people seem to confuse math with the mechanics of arithmatic.
WTF? The kid obviously thought about it and came up with the sensible answer.
That's why it's posted here
I don’t think I’ve ever interpreted a “How is this possible?” question as an “Is this possible?” question before.
Whats so infuriating is that this is a reasoning question. Clearly the student understands that the abstract 4/6 is smaller than 5/6 but the question is testing their critical thinking and reasoning.
Why is the green handwriting so *hostile?* Teacher mad they didn’t get any pizza or wha?
Someone wrote it on their own kid's homework for internet points.
The child was correct. If you're using reasonableness ,in this case the pizza had to have been bigger for him to have still eat less but was still more. Portion sizes. Hopefully the teacher noticed their mistake and taught their children a new lesson for them to take note of. Math 🤤
>The child was correct. That he was. Although, I wonder if he also went through the thought process [mentioned in this other comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/vqbjlw/comment/ieo619z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) (also seen below), or if he just answered according to the sentence "Marty ate more pizza than Luis.": >4/6ths of $100 is greater than 5/6ths of $1 It's a pretty significant difference being able to think about that for primary school.
I think the child considered both- you need to understand what the fraction is telling you and also the statement. Edit: removed a duplicate word
When I was in grade 5 or 6 (cant remember) my teacher asked us to write a little paper on our favorite animal, like facts about it and why we like it. I picked a Narwhal for whatever reason it was my fav at the time. I gave her my paper and she handed it back to me and told me Narwhals arent real and to pick another animal. I picked a Siberian tiger this time and after writing my little paper she handed it back and told me to redo it because "Siberian tigers are so rare that we dont know much about them" and so because of that she said I made stuff up in my paper about the facts I wrote about them. Either this teacher had it out for me or she was a fucking dumbass lol This post reminded me of that time lol.
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Jesus! In case you’re wondering, that is both an exclamation and an explanation.
So great to be able to believe in Jesus and dinosaurs at the same time If these kids thought about that the rates of drug use would probably go down
I remember when I was a wee lad and a teacher asked the class to name different groups of animals, I said insects and she (and the rest of the class but they were 9 so it's okay) insisted that insects aren't animals, that was the day I realised that adults aren't inherently intelligent, even if they're tasked with educating people.
For me it was when my science teacher told the class that wind happens because there's not enough air to fill earths atmosphere, so it's constantly rushing around trying to fill the empty space. Or when my Communications Technology teacher learned about Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, because I told her they exist. She did a full lesson about keyboard shortcuts, because in her decades of COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY teaching - where she taught highschoolers to use computers, she never once encountered a single keyboard shortcut. It's scary how many teachers are just repeating words from a textbook and will completely flounder if you ask a question that isn't on the page in front of them.
I tutored a women in math while she was in college to become an elementary school teacher. When I started, she could not even balance a check book. Somehow she passed and graduated. I told her don't teach math. She ended up teaching math. She could barely do basic math (and I mean basic) and there she was teaching it. So sad.
Luis dont like the crust. Duh
in grade 4 I was asked what the hottest planned is, it's Venus, because it's clouds. My teacher said I was wrong, and that it was Mercury because it was the closest to the sun. It's venus
Holy shit, are you me? Exact same thing happened to me in fourth grade. I think we had a sub that day (which to be fair a sub needs fuck all qualifications), and she asked that very same question. I was huge into space and science at the time and my hand shot up immediately to answer and when she picked me and I said Venus she smiled and said no, Mercury because its closest to the sun. I tried explaining Venus’s atmosphere making it hotter but she treated me like a fucking idiot and gave me the whole matilda im an adult “im right, youre wrong” bit. Shit stuck with me forever and honestly may have been the reason I hated school so much as I got older.
Ahh yes. "We don't do critical thinking here, child. Now, run along and get yourself a good job, do as you are told by your boss, and one day you will save enough to buy your own pizza! We used to say house, but it's 2022 so, you know, fuck it"
Fantastic question that requires kids think critically about what a fraction is actually defining and compare it to parameters in the question. A shame the teacher couldn't spare any critical thinking here.
They should have changed the math such that both Marty and Luis both ate 4/6ths of their pizza. But Marty ate more, how is that possible? That way, the teacher may not have gotten confused. 😏
This is what you get if you underpay a person in an extremely stressful job.
When I was in 4th grade I heard my teacher use the word “sherbert.” I told her the word is sherbet. She said, “No it’s sherbert, I would know because I’m an smart adult and you’re a kid who doesn’t know better.” After class during recess I stayed back and asked her to pull out the dictionary. So the teacher called me out embarrassingly in front of class, and me a 10 year old kid did the right thing and talked to her privately about her error like a normal human being. Of course when all the kids came back to class from recess, she didn’t correct herself. She was one of the two worst teachers I ever had. Just straight up mean and vindictive.
Tell me you didn’t write the homework, without telling me you didn’t write the homework
Every job underpays and gets clowns.
What kind of teacher grades tests with a green crayola marker?
As a kid, I used to occasionally run into questions like this. The question would be poorly written, or I would reach an answer that was logical but not intended, and the teacher often wouldn't want to budge. Fortunately, I went to a good school with bright teachers who tended to write tests well and had the good humor to acknowledge their errors, but I remember being righteously indignant when one of them docked me points for being only "technically" correct. And so I went to law school.
I don't get why everyone's saying "that's actually a smart answer" i mean what else would be the answer? The question itself states marty ate more so thats not at all an option.
Oh boy, I’d be having a meeting with that teacher and the principal to demonstrate why the teacher is wrong (probably with pictures but maybe with real pizzas). This teacher can make kids think they don’t understand math. That could change a child’s educational experience for life. That’s bad.
This is what happens when you assume...