Thursday, December 14, 2006

Stupid Math Substitute

Hey, I got back from school.

We had a substitute for our Algebra 1 Class.
She knew nothing.

At all.
I'm serious, she had NO idea what we were doing in class.
It WAS hilarious though.

She gave us a table. The question was to find how many combinations you could put Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies to equal 42 cents.
Apparently she already gave us the table.
We copied it.

She said we were supposed to solve for the Zero's.
Q-1, D-0, N-1, P-12 = 42 cents
I said "But it's already solved."

She said "Shut up"
Apparently she knew a lot more about addition than I did.

We learned to graph Inequalities.
Not a difficult thing to do, seeing that I already knew how, in fact I am years ahead of everyone else, me doing calculus and calculating velocity and distance, and everyone in my class knew.
The teacher didn't.

As we graphed, she just walked up and drew a random square.
I just think to myself "WTF?!"

She's like, Guys you have to draw it in a square like that picture in the example, or else you will be CONFUSED, if you don't draw your graphs on squares.
She said "Math is not random. I'm not pulling this from nowhere."
Ironically, she drew this random line.
"This is the line in the graph."
...it wasn't.
"It looks pretty with the way it's shaded."
"You see," pointing at the chalk board. "The example picture is better because the green and the yellow shading makes it sooooo clear and precise."
She said we had to learn to graph in little squares for the rest of our lives, or we couldn't do anything more advanced than drawing that linear equation.

We had a hell of a laugh session right there.
Me. Doing Calculus. She had no idea how do draw a line.

At the end of the period we had to leave.
She gave us homework. From nowhere.
Do questions 42-47, and then 48-52.
Na, I'll just do question 47.5, 'cause I'm sooo bad.
I pretended to write it down with my pen.
I picked up 3 sheets of graph paper to "Use."

On the way out I crumpled it all up and threw it in the trash.

It was HILARIOUS.
You had to be there.

2 comments:

Geoffrey said...
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Geoffrey said...

let me guess....that was me and you wanted to stom the non conformist radical from telling the truth about the substitute. w.e