#I barely even remember the good math teachers bc so many of them were grumpy old people who seemed like they really didn’t want to teach

[8-birdparagon]

Just reblogged a post about math and it got me thinking about how math is probably a subject that I should be good at, but my brain cannot handle it in the slightest. Like it’s entirely logic, I’m usually great at logic.

Idk if it’s bc of the way it was taught in my math classes or what, but at this point I genuinely cannot wrap my mind around the existence of numbers and how they work. Makes me wonder how things might’ve been different if it was something I could do.

Back in elementary school in the third grade, I was placed in an advanced math class, and at a certain point the teacher was moving too fast which made me start crying in the middle of class.

Instead of helping me catch up or slowing down or anything like that, their solution was to just move me to a less advanced class. This in fact did not help me in the slightest and while it was a slower class, I still didn’t understand any of the material.

I genuinely have no idea what I would change about how math is taught (outside of getting rid of the various teachers who are horrible at teaching), but it really does seem like there should be a better way to teach the subject

#the awful teachers are a whole other story and I hate all of them #one time in middle school I tried asking the teacher for clarification on how to work through the problem bc I didn’t understand #and you know what his response was? ‘idk how do you do it’ #LIKE WHAT?!?!?! #Several years later and I’m still extremely upset about it #no wonder I developed such an avoidance towards learning the subject when every other math teacher I had was just garbage #now that I’m thinking about it I kinda feel like I’ve been left behind and never really caught up #the public school system is such a mess and I hate it #^that middle school math teacher was the worst I have so many stories about that dude #made a girl cry once by talking about her weight #also every single girl that went to that school that I’ve talked to about him has said he was an absolute creep #like they’d go and ask him a question and he’d invite them to sit on his lap and then he would work through it with them #I barely even remember the good math teachers bc so many of them were grumpy old people who seemed like they really didn’t want to teach #I had one during my senior year of high school that tried to make math interesting but at that point it was too little too late for me #she had us do a presentation that was meant to help us see how math was in everything and we could pick any topic with math in it #and honestly that’s a really cool thing to do but being a senior who had the grades to pass that class without doing the presentation #I did not care in the slightest and it was one of the worst presentations I’ve done that I can remember #I’m sorry high school math teacher! I genuinely hope you don’t become bitter and stop caring! #the school system needs all the good teachers it can get