2009-09-23, 10:25 PM
IsaacGS Wrote:my 2nd grade teacher got PISSED when I brought up negative numbers. She was all "shut up you're gonna confuse the other kids" and I'm thinking "what's confusing about negative?"
I noticed that too though, math is taught to you as a bunch of lies. They like to say "YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT DO THIS EVER!" then next year they go "Sorry, we lied. you can do it and now you have to learn it!" I understand that they're trying to simplify things but I wish they wouldn't say something is impossible when they know damn well it is. I'd even accept "You'll learn about that next year" but nooooo.
Dude, I did the same thing, only in 1st grade. A kid wrote a problem backwards, and the teacher told him he couldn't do that, so I piped up and said it would just be negative.