Get a ruler

I am four eels!!!

Never meant to make your daughter cry.

"Sorry Mrs. Johnson..."

Woooooo

http://m.imgur.com/D28Zomx

"Im sorry Mrs. Jackson I am for real"

"I'm sorry Ms. Jackson... (OOoo!) I am for REEeeeaaal..."

It identifies as a straight line

Sorry Ms. Jackson...

I'm sorry Mrs. Johnson WOOOO I NEED A RUUULERRR

Sorry Mrs. Jackson

Ooooh, I am fo reeeeaaaal

Because if it's not straight, it's a curve

Well, in mathematics that would technically be true.

I hope you still have those erasers.

Must have been married to my Physics teacher who threw white board pens at us any time we answered "blue" to what color is the sky.

Triggered.

They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon iiiis

In algebra and math in general you were right.

Maybe she wanted you to answer "a gay one" for once

Blurred

Gay lines matter.

Real lines have curves.

Triggered

I did, did I get it right?

Yes u fucking queer

All lines go both ways

and back.

Oscar

Out of curiosity, would a line on a curved surface be straight from the perspective of the surface?

Basically, each of these lines exists on a separate curved surface which is perpendicular to the paper along the lines.

Additionally, the curved surfaces have no volume along the plane of the paper, such that the lines wrap around the top and bottom infinitely but appear to be line segments by retracing the same path back and forth.

but i mean, go ahead and try to get all your paper to curve while you write on it

That's how planes fly

Last I checked, the paper that the line is to be created on is a flat plane.

flat plane

like a piece of paper?

Lobachevsky was one sexy motherfucker.

To our perspective they are curved, aren't they straight from the perspectives of their respective geometries though?

In a flat plane, like a sheet of paper for example?

Great! There has been a breech. I gotta get the SCP to contain this thread now.

Lines in curved geometries are curved. You can't just plop down a sphere within Euclidean space and declare that its great circles are also lines.

Within a singularity anything could be a straight line.

U wot m8?

I would downvote you, but that was a well-executed physics slap-down, so upvoted.

I know when I have been bested.

Well crap, my calculus teacher lied to me :(

Why not just edit your comment? You replied to yourself..?

This shows confidence.

That requires you to know the answers to the rest.

I did something like that with an assignment. In Jr. high I had to do a worksheet that asked for various aspects of several elements. Questions like who discovered it, when ect. My lab partner and I did one perfectly then for the second we did Einsteinium and said it was discovered by Einstein and a couple other random answers, then we did Californium and said it was discoverer by Tupac for the boys in the hood, then for the last it was all scribbles. We both got a 100% on it, and we were some of the only people to actually get A's because most people didn't finish the assignment.

It is easier to get away with that stuff when you actually know your stuff and get A's when you do your work properly.

It could still be interpreted as the wrong answer!

See, this is why our education system is fucked. It teaches kids to follow rules, not to be ingenuitive. It punishes kids for being creative and thinking outside the box. It does not reward kids who step up to the plate and question the rules and why things have to be the way they are.

Interestingly, the education system is also dominated by government-mandated curriculum. Makes you wonder.

I took it. AND THREW IT ON THE GROUND!

FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!

stick it to the man!

FUCK YOU AND YOUR CORPORATION

And count on the reader's brain to automatically interpret it as the right letter? Does that actually work?

æ?

As a French teacher, it annoys the hell out of me when students draw a straight line on a 'e' instead of 'é' or 'è'. Chancers!

It's in a superposition of being an a and an e until the reader sees it and collapses the wave function

My Spanish teacher called those tweener vowels and would hit us with rolled up paper with staples in it if we used them.

When don't you know?

I don't know of any subreddits, but there is a book called, "F in Exams" by Richard benson that's full of smartass test answers

/r/TechnicallyCorrect

It's kinda dead, though.

/r/Technicallycorrect

9gag

T/F doesn't work on any level, that's just a bunch of F's T doesnt have a strike through the middle.

First and second one could maybe work, but after that it's just a bunch of r's.

As a teacher, yes... that's extraordinarily creative. That student may have failed the test, but they're going to be President. That is, of course, assuming they figured it out themselves - otherwise they're a plagiarizer and are likely going to end up in prison for selling drugs. There is no middle ground.

But they failed...I don't think it was that brilliant.

Kid tried to write true and false in the same word (look at the a/r and ls/u).

Fairly certain 1895 ended in 1895 though

There should be a subreddit for these

Technically incorrect though.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6f/a2/b3/6fa2b37c7165c9cdc061b6b1f599f543.jpg

I always hated these answers. Show your work for something I did in my head always gave me this tight pressure in my chest.

and could also count up in their head

Oh, that's what it says. I thought the kid misspelled "hand".

I mean, he isn't wrong either.

In my experience, teachers hated when you just know something. Like if I'm getting lucky on 3 or 4 answers out of 10, sure I'll explain how I got there. If I'm acing all of this easy unit, come on.

While it is a perfectly acceptable answer to me as well, different teachers might be looking for different answers. Where I live we (disgustingly) teach to the test. This child would likely have both answers marked incorrect because the teacher would want to see a strategy physically modeled. This is a 1st/early 2nd level sheet, and we would be looking for the child to model base 10 blocks, draw a number line, etc. You can't understand their thinking very well if they are just telling you they did it in their head or counted on their fingers-- the child might not know how to represent the number 4 and could actually be counting 6 instead.

Here these would be acceptable answers at a kinder level in more of a whole-group conversation setting when just beginning to discuss how to solve math problems.

I'm not totally familiar with it but common core wants more (assuming that the kid is at that level). They want stuff like 4+3 is 4+4-1 or 4+2+1.

I saw better handwriting than my own, who I hadn't realized it was a child.

"I ran out of room, better write the next one smaller"

Pretty sure that's an A, not an N.

No, it's more like you draw a set of four lines and a set of three lines and put them together and get seven lines (or use your fingers like they said). This is for like kindergarten/first grade.

These kids cant be older than 7. Theres no way they're doing of addition negative numbers yet.

Honestly I've taken higher calculus courses, and even I would hesitate on this one. Like, how am I supposed to break that down into simpler components? Thats about as bare as I can think to make it without unnecessarily complicating it (or using the new common core concepts) Its clearly a test question written according to the way the lesson was taught in the book but it doesnt really correspond to how people actually think about numbers. So the only way youd know how to answer isnt if you have a firm grasp on math, but if you have a firm grasp on the specific lesson in which you're teacher covered this.

understanding ways to make 8, for example, builds number sense. my first graders suck at it. cuz they have no number sense yet.

I've seen a little of that, it seems like they are using simple numbers to teach advanced concepts that will be useful with larger numbers. Seems like a good idea but sometimes it seems like buying a plane ticket to fly around the world to get a beer out of your fridge.

If you memorized the multiplication tables you could do 2 times 3 plus 1. And kids are suppose to memorize their tables.

As a maths student, the only acceptable way to do it is to note that

4+3 = 4+S(2) = S(4+2)

and

S(4+2) = S(4+S(1)) = S(S(4+1))

and

S(S(4+1)) = S(S(4+S(0))) = S(S(S(4+0)))

and

S(S(S(4+0) = S(S(S(4))) = S(S(5)) = S(6) = 7

so

4+3 = 7

Found the person that believes that because they know math, they know fuck all about teaching math.

Bless you

I'm talking about showing work on simple shit and when you have a calculator, some us don't want to take the time to write out all the steps we had to do to get the answer

I will turn myself over to the Social Justice Officers immediately for reeducation.

I'm not on Facebook.

[removed]

but my internet still isn't working, why do i pay you?

Hmmm... Good to know for my CCNA.

The wind will blow away the wifi

"Lexicon is a word in the English lexicon."

Did you even mean for that to have double meaning cause if you did that's pretty fucking clever.

I remember when I was a kid, we learned the word "syllable" one week. So for several eeeks following, being the genius I am, whenever I got stumped on a vocabulary test and needed to use a word in a sentence, I just counted its syllables. Thus, every time I didn't know a word, my example would be, "Lexicon has three syllables. "

"I saw a nice lexicon today"

"This sentence contains the word lexicon."

They absolutely did. I was allowed to go home as soon as my homework for that week was done, and only if the grades were good.

I had lots of free time because of that. (relatively. as in, 10 hours a day as opposed to a "mere" 6 hours)

I can't believe I thought school was demanding back then.

Pretty sure 8 year olds are developed enough to draw the distinction between using and mentioning, hence other 8 year olds doing the assignment the right way.

You're too much of a rebel for the system.

Granted that my reference was in the context of analytical philosophy. However, "use vs. mention" was taught to me in English class in junior high school. Apparently, that isn't universally the case.

😑

Blasphemy!

I am the Bringer of Nylon, the Harbinger of Unnecessary Cable Management. Fear my installations! I have also earned a bulk discount at Harbor Freight.

I assure you, that's a movie.

Still?

Yes. Upon rereading I saw my mistake. I think I covered myself smoothly though

No, with Jet Li

if i could air one suggestion, make it a teensy more jerky/faster, and more angry, like an exasperated teacher....

Ranting and criticism are two different things.

I'll take the high road here.

RemindMe! 2 years "repost once everyone forgets about the other reposts"

RemindMe! 5...oh fuck!

RemindMe! 7 months 27 days before this Saggiolo.

RemindMe! 13 hours to check if this person actually reposted for karma

He never said he was an English teacher.

forced to retire*

He/she could be a teacher from another country than the US/UK/Australia (you get the idea), and not teaching English.

We all speak native English here....

Never said he was an english teacher

He never said he was an English teacher; he could have been a math teacher.

Those look like common phone errors. The last, is what happens when people change the syntax mid-type and don't update.

However, I teach English and see the differences between repeated patterns and one-off errors more than most.

And here I am just thinking that they're using real words because they were a teacher.

Thank god they're retired!

Xhe never said xhe was an English teacher.

those who can't do, teach

Dhaat niqqa never said dhaat niqqa was an English teacher.

No, the kid will go home, turn to prayer, be rewarded with a blizzard, study as hard as he can, still fail the test, but remember one answer as "applied knowledge" before the credits roll on that sweet Simpsons theme.

Surely if they know the exact question they'll spend the 2 minutes to look it up?

You don't win when the kid GETS and A. You win when the kid EARNS an A.

An important distinction, I feel.

That's assuming a lot. Say the kid doesn't care. Say you've got a class of 30 kids that don't care. Why is it the teacher's sole responsibility to make those kids care? Yeah, they should try and make it interesting as well as try and connect with the students, but at some point it stops being the teacher's fault and becomes the parent's or the student's or other surrounding factors like social problems, community environment, etc. And sometimes a kid deserves an F and it's not the teachers fault in the slightest — kids can just be stubborn like that. If teachers are told that they're failures because a handful of stubborn children refuse to learn, then that teacher is going to burn out from no fault of their own.

Source: am a student. Classmates drive me crazy sometimes.

I did things like this and then would study right after, knowing the teacher would have me redo it.

Source: Been at this a while

Except that seems like a more valuable real life skill than being able to answer a question correctly on a test.

Isn't adult life like 90% trying to figure out how to game the system to your advantage?

I had no clue who Louis Lassen was and the first google result mentioned a hamburger stand..... so forgive me.

Obviously, the first cartoon was written by Shakespeare, drawn by Da Vinci.

Yeah, I'm really confused what the answers are actually supposed to be.

It seems like this teacher atually thinks the Simpsons was the first cartoon.

1.  Telephone                           A. To America
2.  #illin                                     B.  by Louis Lassen
3.  Romeo and Juliet                C. By Leonardo Da Vinci
4.   ####n                                  D. By Shakespeare
5.  [Firs]t Cartoon                      E. in 1989
6.  The Mona Lisa                      F. From the local mu[seum?]

The answer to 3 is clearly D. Answer to 6 is clearly C.

1. Telephone            A.To America
2. #illin                      B. by Louis Lassen
4. ###n                     E. in 1989
5 [Firs]t Cartoon       F. From the local mu[seum?]

Googling it, looks like Louis Lassen is credited with inventing the hamburger. My best guess is that 1989 refers to the Simpsons, which started in 1989. Perhaps it doesn't actually say "First". Maybe it says Best or Greatest?

Also, number 3 is a bit concerning since there aren't many words that end with illin.

Also to be considered is spacing on the left side. We don't see the start of any item so we're not sure if it's "Mona Lisa" or "The Mona Lisa". We know Romeo And Juliet has 5 characters omitted which I think indicates that it's "The Mona Lisa", which means we can except about 5 or so characters taken off the beginning of each item. Okay, so...what KInd of telephone? "Rotary' is too long. Cell Phone perhaps? Cell phones were invented before 1989.

None of this makes any damn sense. Can anyone make sense of it?

......ouch

It's ok to him because homework grades don't count toward anything

Homework was 10% of my grade going through school and even into college it's remained 10%. So let's say I have 10 assignments (which is really undercutting it, I generally had a lot more but 10 is easy to work with) and of those 10 I get a 0 for one and 100 for the rest. The grade would average out to a 90 which would still be an acceptable grade and again homework is only 10% of the overall grade. If you're going this hard speaking about 'mediocracy' and whatnot when it comes to homework then I have doubts as to how much you actually understand the words you use.

That was unnecessary.

Well, I mean, you could make it 4 posts ever...

working around teachers I have to say that most of them are too tired to meme.

Glad someone caught that!

You need three backslashes to escape the code.

¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

Type it like that and it'll show up right.

you have to use 3 slashes in order to get the arm to appear:

¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

gives you:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You must've been one of my middle school teachers.

Except you spelled it wrong :X ..time to go study.

I do, simply because I have no idea how to write it like "&" that.

I do though

*Le Sigh...

Exactly what I said.

that and there's like a dozen grammar/spelling mistakes in the questions

\o

relevant username....

/r/beetlejuicing?

the test wasn't a geometry test; applying a definition of a word that suits one specific application to a separate application isn't pedantic, it's just plain wrong. Essentially you're trying to answer "these speakers are odd sounding" with "sounding is a measure of depth and has nothing to do with audio!"