/sci/ - Science & Math

Before I deleted facebook, a friend-of-family, friend-of-friends type acquaintance who went on to take a teaching qualification started moaning about having to be numerate (something like "When would I ever have to do long division? I'm going to teach English").

1st is just stupid teacher

2nd is teacher enforcing education board so everyone develops similarly

3rd is the skill of using calculators which is very important reguardless of whether you can do it in your head

>>5944956
Fast forward to high school biology
>be freshman
>start learning about evolution
>15 minutes in, two juniors start arguing
>NO THATS WRONG
>I GOT MAH PROOFS IT'S IN MY BACKPACK I'LL SHOW YOU
>pulls out a bible
>a fucking bible
>doesn't even read from it, she just shoves the closed book into a guys face
>this is her actual argument
>teacher eventually tells them to calm down
Later, at the end of the class
>teacher asks kids what they think
>one kid says "it's just a theory, right?"
>other kids nod and say "yeah, it's just a theory"

1st is a teacher teaching facts. Nothing wrong here.

2nd is a librarian genuinely caring about his customers. He doesn't want you to read dumb shit.

3rd is a teacher doing her job. When the lesson consists of learning how to use a calculator, then use the fucking calculator. Of course you learned doing it in your head in 1st grade. Everybody knows and that's not what the lesson was about.

>>5944981
>enforcing education board so everyone develops similarly
not a good thing.
glad I went to a selective state school before "equality" lumps all the smart kids in with the retards

>>5944981
>the skill of using calculators
>skill

>>5945003
>humans aren't animals

wat is kingdom animalia

>>5945003
>facts
>people aren't animals
hang on, I'm gonna go try my hand at photosynthesis

>>5945024
Post results

>>5944997
Chemistry class
>Doing study island quizzes
>people start asking me questions out loud, without any concern of the teacher hearing
>"Anon what charge does an electron have?"
>"Anon what atomic mass does a neutron have?"
>"Anon how many protons does a nitrogen atom have?"
>we learned all of this at least 2 times in 2 different grade levels before highschool
>there is a huge poster of the periodic table of elements covering an entire wall of the classroom
>the entire wall

>>5945024
We're protists dumbo.

I had a great teacher for 3rd grade who recognized my talent. My father was working for the Cleveite corporation before it was bought out by Gould. They were developing the first synthetic ceramic piezoelectric materials.(1972-73?) I prepared a report on that for weeks. Important to me because I was a very poor student. The day I dragged all my stuff into school the teacher was out and we had a substitute.
When I was making my presentation she told me to check my privilege; my father being an engineer wouldn't help me. As I was describing piezoelectric effect and how they work she interrupted and told the class that it was not possible; electricity only comes for generators. I mentioned static from blankets and lightning. she told me not to get smart with her.
In the end I pulled out the first piezoelectric cigarette anyone had ever seen.it had the clevite logo on the side and i kept it for years to light model rocket fuses. I described it's design to the class and flicked it. She sent me to the principles office for "starting a fire in class"
Happy ending:
After I talked to the principle and waited a while the substitute went into his office. later I was told to go back to class. For the rest of the day the older kid's shop teacher "taught" the class but all everyone did was complain to him what a crazy bitch she was.
Mr. Green came back the next day and I got an "A"

>>5945029
inb4 dick caught in ceiling fan

>>5944956
>starting Sorcerer's Stone in 2nd grade
Step your game up.

>>5944981
Actually I think 2 is just ignorance. I don't think she believed a 2nd grader could be at that reading level.

>>5945003
OP here,
Harry Potter is admittedly riddled with deus ex machinas and filled with an obnoxious fanbase, but as a kid it was a pretty good book.

Now, regarding the calculator incident- I was probably in the wrong then.

>>5944956
Quit screwing around on 4chan Jesse, we have to cook

>high school
>old physics teacher leaves
>advanced physics is now taught by a football coach
>4 weeks into the class, he still has problems setting up displacement problems if they aren't simple Pythagorean theorem

The joys of an Arkansas education. I can only imagine how easy the basic physics class was...

>>5945055
I thought you told me to apply myself.

>>5945054

Due to a scheduling difficulty i took normal physics and I felt bad because the teacher was amazing and personally showed me how to use calculus in physics when he wasn't teaching the students who don't give a shit.

On the bright side hes now teaching honors physics.

>>5945054
Related story-
>high school physics 1
>teacher is underqualified as shit
>spends 45 mins reading the chapter he's going to teach today, then spends another 45 minutes (horribly) trying to explain it. (1.5 hour periods)
>frequently asks students to explain things for him
anyways
>we have a quiz one day (made by another teacher, answer key made by him)
>one problem deals with the potential gravitational energy of a coin at the bottom of a well
>there are 4 choices, including 0 and -0.14J (impossibru)
>entire class chooses 0
>teacher insists -0.14J
>he says its at the BOTTOM of the well, so it has to be NEGATIVE
>one guy throws a fit
>teacher asks "why does it matter so much?"
>ourgrade.jpg

>>5945067
Jesse, there is no more room for error, not with these people.
After everything I have done, for my family, I'm not going to let you screw it up for me like I know you will.

Also, magnets.

>>5945084
>there are 4 choices, including 0 and -0.14J (impossibru)
>entire class chooses 0
>teacher insists -0.14J

It is -0.14J you bunch of fucking inbreds.

>>5944997
>it says here that you used the term theory as if it meant hypothesis, could you further explain this?

>>5945096

>>5945007
Ability*

>>5945084
>potential gravitational energy
Isn't that modulo a constant? i.e. why would -0.14J be impossible?
*confused*

>>5945104
It has 0 height.

>>5945096
E=m*g*h
if m_coin=1.4 gram, g=10m/s^2 and well 10m deep h=-10
E=-0.14J

>>5945114
>0 height
I bet you also believe that object on top of Mt. Everest has the same potential energy as same one near the bottom, just because they are at same distance from physical ground.

>>5945096
Let's measure potential energy from the bottom of the well. Oh look, now it's 0 J. This is all unclear (at least the way he posted it) wording.

>Exam in first grade
>basic shit
>label hands and feet as both left or right
>get exam back
>hands correct
>feet not
>teacher insists that the left foot is the right and the right foot is the left

>>5945129
This can't be real. I refuse to believe it.

>>5945120
>>5945116
>>5945104
>>5945096

The question referred to the coin being 0m from the bottom of the well.

Sorry for the unclear wording, this all happened a fairly long time ago and my memory is shady.

>>5945127
>dig a deeper well
>create more energy
Seriously though, it's a shitty problem.

>>5945135

The worst was that I accepted it and got it wrong next year in another test.

>>5945133
You have to define a zero point or else potential energy is meaningless.

>>5945142
I dun goof'd

I apologize.

>precalculus
>reviewing half-lives
>teacher says "I don't believe in carbon dating myself, but we're doing these anyways because they're good math examples"

I hope she was just saying that to appeal to tards.

>>5945037
>"Anon what atomic mass does a neutron have?"

Top lel
Nigga you stupid

>>5945157

>>5945165
bamp

>>5945165
This meme was never funny.

>Junior year of high school, astronomy class
>Teacher is a young woman who recently finished her bachelor's degree, can't command respect from her students at all
>Has us use this planetarium software (Starry Night) to find answers to questions like "How many miles to the moon?" (not even kidding)
>Most of it is simply reading numbers off the screen and writing it down on a worksheet
>I know all the answers because I've been telescoping for a few years at this point
>Do the worksheet, then sit and read while everybody works on the computers
>She asks me why I'm not doing anything, show her my completed worksheet
>She bitches me out and makes me redo the whole thing using the planetarium software

Direct quote from her, while trying to align a GoTo mount and choosing from a list of alignment stars on the hand control: "Capella? I've never heard of that one."

Fucking burned me up that she was teaching that class. I even overheard some girl saying that she used to think astronomy was kind of cool but no longer had any interest in it after realizing how "boring" it was. All because they couldn't find anybody who knew what they were doing to teach the class.

1st grade
> (small private Christian school)
>See that friend gets an answer wrong on his spelling test
>Correct it
>Tell friend what I did for him
>He starts crying and teacher yells at me
>WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
>I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP T__T

High School, Sophomore year
>Skip class ~3 days a week and still make A's on all the tests
>Kids keep asking how I do it
>I HAD TO SPEND THREE HOURS STUDYING LAST NIGHT AND YOU COME IN AFTER NOT HAVING BEEN HERE FOR A WEEK AND ACE IT. WHAT THE FUCK MAN?
>Kinda don't how to respond

Same year, Euclidean Geometry
>Always finishing work before everyone else in class
>Always falling asleep because of it
>Teacher gets mad, keeps bitching to me about sleeping
>One day just stand up in the middle of class
>ANON WHY ARE YOU STANDING
>Well, this is about the only way I can prevent myself from going to sleep, so..
>Oh, well, okay.
>wut
>OKAY CLASS, TAKE OUT YOUR HOMEWORK
>Didn't do it
>Stand silently
>Teacher flips her shit and I get suspended for 5 days for disrespect
>Kicked out of the class and have to repeat the next year

Senior year
>Didn't sign up for AP Lit
>In normal class
>Every discussion we have I take over
>"Anon, we're going to move to the AP class, you're a little too smart for this one."
>"Oh, cool."
>First day in AP Lit
>Excited because WHOO NEW CLASS, WITH PEOPLE I KNOW AND LIKE, WHOO
>Start talking to people
>Teacher asks me to quiet down
>ohokay
>Next day, day 2 in AP Lit
>Ask why there's a pinata on her wall
>Teacher flips her shit due to previous day of disruption
>WHAT DOES A PINATA HAVE TO DO WITH THE BOOK WE'RE READING?
>blank stare
>YOU KNOW WHAT blahblahbitchbitch
>Get kicked out of the class and have to finish on a computer
>But why can't I just go back to the other class?!
>BECAUSE YOU'RE A CONSTANT DISRUPTION.
>BUT THE OTHER TEACHER LOVED ME
>Principal had no fucking idea the actual story, just hated me because I was always getting into trouble

>be 4yo
>class is reading aloud
>I'm reading in my head
>refuse to read aloud with everyone else because my mother taught me to read like an adult
>get put in the retard class because teacher though I couldn't read.


>be 7
>learning about sound waves and vibrations
>write up science experiment report
>tuning fork vibrates causing the air to vibrate and stimulate your ear drums - Correct
>flicking a plastic ruler makes it hit the table and vibrate, causing the air to do the same etc... -Incorrect
According to the teacher, the slapping noise was from the ruler vibrating against air... stupid bitch.

>be 10
>have to spend 2 weeks pestering my teachers to enter me in for the Higher exam papers for science/maths/English
>they finally give in
>get top grades
>they still tell me it was pointless because my place at my next school was secure

>be 16
>be in statistics
>everyone struggling with one question
>friend writes out a huge equation
>complete mess
>enters into his calculator
>smiles as if he has solved it
>look at the answer he wrote down
>"3/Syntax error"
mfw

>go to catholic kindergarten
>xmas tiem
>stupid kindergarten ladies tell the children to be nice so santa will bring them gifts
>stand up and call out 'there is no santa, it's our parents who bring us the gifts anyway'
>kindergarten lady seizes my arm and says 'shhh anon, the other kids aren't supposed to know this, they are not like you'

>>5945249
oral dictation is an important skill nigger.

>>5945249
>>"3/Syntax error"

>>5945256
Yeah because the teacher never speaks to a 4 year old any other time at school other than when they're reading aloud with 15 other kids. That's the perfect fucking time.

>>5945255
Why does a catholic kindergarten promote "Santa Clause" and the capitalistic corruption of christmas? Aren't the religionfags supposed to teach the original meaning of christmas as the birth of their saviour?

>>5945249
Oh I have another one.

>be 5
>French girl transfers to school
>talk to her in French in the playground
>explain things to her when she doesn't understand
>get told off for not speaking English to her 100% of the time
>mfw I transferred from an independent school to a state run school
>mfw no one at that school spoke French other than me
That girl transferred away after 2 months.

In Grade 10 I had the most retarded history teacher. We started learning about World War I, fine, this is what all classes do. Then we skipped right ahead to World War II. This is where things started to get a bit fishy. So we finish working on World War II, and we move onto racism and social issues. Not part of the History at all. We had to learn words like
>Prejudice
>Racism
>tolerance
>Stereotypes
We had to do a report on these words. I made a compilation of racist moments on South Park, then made up some bullshit about why racism is wrong.

Then we moved onto World War I, finally. By this point I just didn't care about her or her class, so I moved to the other History class (waaaaay better) with another guy in my class. Apparently us moving made her cry, lol.

So I moved to the other class and got top marks.

Also, she thought that the Holocaust was in World War I.

>>5945268
Me again, not really education related, but still funny.
>be Hindu
>go to Anglican school
>get given a letter asking my parents if they would like me to be confirmed
>tell the teacher that I don't wish to waste paper and that my parents will not sign it
>get detention for 'chatting back'
>get detention when my parents recycled the letter
>get detention for saying 'I told you so'
>get detention for telling the teacher my parent's won't sign the detention letters because the reasons make no sense.

>>5945277
Oh, I also got detention for asking why I should bother converting to Christianity when everyone was already a Hindu.

It was funny because I was more respectful than the actual Christian kids who went to the school. The choir would have Bible fights with stacks of bibles, flinging them across the room at each other and playing cricket with them.

>>5945270
it's even worse. they actually tried to make us believe in a genderless baby jesus flying around through the air on xmas eve distributing the presents together with santa. of course they also taught us 'the original story' simultaneously. btw most brainless catholics really dig that crappy consumerism. the damned vatican has got its own bank, you know.

>>5945283
>The choir would have Bible fights with stacks of bibles
>flinging them across the room at each other and playing cricket with them.

>>5945249

>3/syntax error

My sides.

>>5945180
>hardly does anything
>doesn't apply himself
>is a general dick

That's you, anon. Those people weren't even being stupid. You were.

>>5945283
>get detention for getting so many detentions

also
>The choir would have Bible fights with stacks of bibles, flinging them across the room at each other and playing cricket with them.

My fucking sides

>Too aspergery/ADHD to function in a classroom, let's put him with all the learning difficulties retards. He can't even add numbers together.
>O-oh, he can do math in his head quickly and he has a high reading age, but he's still a troublemaker on merit of not paying attention to our shitacular teaching.
Enter middle school
>Well, he's clearly getting severely bullied, but rather than help him we'll give him punishments for fighting back.
>W-wait, did he just jump from being average to being one of the top in the year?
>Well, he's clever but he's by no means a genius. These exercises are easily challenging enough for him.
High school
>No retardation on the part of teachers but the damage was already done.
University
>Better results than any of my peers from prior schools and yet still feel underchallenged.

If I have kids I'm not sending them to comprehensive schools.

My high school physical science teacher told us that the reason alligators are able to sit at the bottom of the water is because they eat rocks to weigh themselves down.

I had a teacher that wouldn't give me bad grades, no matter what I did wrong.

In her French class for 3 years, my friend and I would always annoy the class and never answer any question right. We'd sit at the back and throw crap at people sitting at the front. Whenever we'd have to answer a question, we make a stupid answer, in french.
Say, if the question was
>anon, what do you like to wear on the weekend?
I'd answer with
>Black jackboots, brown shirt and a red armband.
In french, of course.

Most of the time we'd just play loud music to annoy everyone or play halo on the school's laptops. With every report I got, it was always a good word, even though I never did the class work or homework.

I fucked around in the debating team aswell, and somehow we always won.