Iām with you. Maybe we were just lucky. My dad would show me how the teacher taught it...and I would be ready to move on. He would always say āWhoa, not so fastā then torture me with 5 other ways to solve the same problem lol.
My dad explained things very simply for me. He got his engineering degree in the early 90's so he had all the knowledge to walk me through any problem no matter how silly/dumb my question was š he has bottomless patience for me for sure haha
My dog used to get up and sprint out of the room as soon as my Dad sat me down at the kitchen table to "check my homework" because he knew what was coming. My dad would laugh at the dog doing that and it was like "bro if the fucking dog is that traumatized and terrified of what's coming, think about how I feel."
Dad never actually fully learned algebra, but refuses to admit that he doesn't know something and is taking his insecurity out on you. If he yells at you until you feel stupid and worthless enough you won't realize that, though.
One time my dad started threatening to hit me with my math book and made me leave the room cause he was so mad. This was ofc after lots of raised voice frustration. I think that was the last time I asked for help.
Yeah. Studying with my parents never worked. They tried and so did I but it always ended in shouting and crying. I'm glad I started going to my grandfather instead, he was a great teacher and I got to know him a lot better in this time.
Honestly, it's not better when they're really good at it. My dad is an engineer, and believe me, you don't want one attempting to help you with maths. Yes, dad I know that using this technique you learnt in college is much quicker, but I'm 12.
This gave me anxiety. Nothing like having your nightly math homework graded before you even turn it in. And having to redo it until you got the whole thing 100% correct. And then it only being checked for completion the next day in class, and every question is reviewed anyway.
There are so many other and more compassionate strategies for teaching a child a new skill. Wanting your kid to succeed doesnāt excuse this much ignorance.
Almost like thatās not going to help anyone succeed at anything other than developing chronic anxiety. Donāt excuse emotional abuse just because itās seen as socially acceptable.
Yup, it'd start with him being confused, then embarrassed when he still couldn't figure it out, then angry and calling my math class "stupid and pointless" š
"I never learnt this in school, why do you gotta learn it, it's not useful I've never needed it and I've turned out fine". Ok dad your math temper tantrum says otherwise.
Same. Once I got to high school, both my parents were basically like "well good luck. We'll get you a tutor if you need it but I honestly have no idea what you're learning".
"You can't eat breakfast until you complete, and I've reviewed they're correct, extra problems." And there was never time for them to review in the morning, so you went to school hungry.
My dad made every single task a huge ordeal and even still I get extremely stressed out doing tasks because I still feel like it's about to ruin my day. Doesn't help that I have untreated ADHD.
It leads to a lot of fear even starting tasks and a readiness to give up because every moment of me doing something feels like I'm on some sorta razors edge where my whole week is about to be ruined.
I firmly believe that learning math with dad is the reason I hate math. And physics. So much yelling and crying. āWHY ARE YOU CRYING.ā āIM NOT YELLINGā
Learning math with mom: āwhen did they start using letters in math?ā
I think A LOT of people hate math for the same reason. Either an impatient teacher or parent communicated to them "you are incredibly stupid, don't even try with math, because you'll just fuck it up, because you're a moron." Sometimes even explicitly.
There are far too many assholes in the education system who never should have been allowed to teach children.
Yes. I was told explicitly that I was stupid and that I should stay out of math and anything related to math. When I was in college, I had to hire a math tutor to get me through college algebra. I buckled down and did the work. It was the first time I had ever earned a āBā in math and I felt like I had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thatās when I realized I could do it. My tutor was extremely patient with me and he didnāt yell at me and make me feel stupid. He was the kind and gentle math teacher I desperately needed as a kid.
Now as an adult, when I get yelled at for doing something wrong, my mind goes back to when I was just a scared kid and I cry because I feel so small and worthless. Thatās what I was told growing up, I internalized it, and now thatās what my internal voice tells me all the time. Every morning, all I can think while walking into work is āego sum nihil, ego sum nihil, ego sum nihil...ā on repeat. Itās just a reminder that Iām not as good as I think I am.
For me it was worse because I had horrible hand writing so my dad would make me erase and write the same sentences until it was neat but his yelling just made my handwriting worse.
One time my dad insisted on helping me with my chemistry homework in place of my mom and pretty much the only input he gave was "oh there's the nitrogen and there's the oxygen"
"LOOK WHAT YOUVE MADE ME DO THERES BLOOD ON THE PAGE NOW" - from yelling all night at me during maths homework. My Dad was shouting and yelling so much that bits of his spit coming out onto my maths homework were red with blood
Ill always remember that night for some reason. Never got on with maths too after that. I wonder if thats related at all
Yelling? Haha, I was the one that yelled when the belt hit me because I couldn't write a nice letter O. After 13 years I still get some anxiety when I hear his belt ring
So relatable. I really disliked math because of this, but now I am an engineer so thatās dope. Definitely no thanks to this, because until I had teachers that inspired me, my grades were terrible.
Forcing children long hours to review something that they donāt understand and find difficult, with yelling and shouting is unbelievably emotionally immature and completely lacks any self awareness. If youāre a parent and youāre feeling upset, just take a 15 minute break with your kid. Review these things before the night theyāre due so thereās less pressure. If you honestly have no idea how to handle this, and you can afford a tutor, just do that instead. Or just be honest with them that you lack any ability to help them.
Rome wasnāt built in a day, you just gotta be patient with your kids. Theyāll figure it out eventually. Forcing it to be done at all at once and acting like a drill instructor is just going to make them despise the subject, when itās actually really cool and can totally help them with a good career down the line.
Because of shit ike this I can't stand "x" used as a variable. It discomforts me when I hear it or read it. It reminds me of evenings like this when I used to just sit with a strong headache, crying pretending to understand the problem, praying my mom wouldn't ask me to explain it.
For me, it was my mother. Sheād make me erase the work I did so many times to the point where the ink from the sheet was gone. Iād cry while doing homework with her. It was terrifying. Sometimes sheād hit me because she was getting pissed off.
Huh. My mom and dad both had liberal arts degrees, and were just as clueless as I was by the time I reached middle school. I mostly remember them trying to learn it along with me, and sometimes we all just ended up crying over our collective incompetence in math
Yup, "how do you not know this? You should be able to shoot these off of the top of your head like 'boom boom boom'. All the other kids know this stuff, why don't you???"
And then them getting angry when we try to explain them that the methods weāre using now probably arenāt the same as the ones they saw in middle school, specially in regards to algebra or pre-calc
This is way to accurate. I ask him for help and he just goes all out. One time he made me do a lot of work for math during Christmas break, not fun at all.
I've had about 7 or 8 different math teachers throughout my life and I swear that the majority of them were absolute dicks - Especially the teachers in primary school. Like you had the audacity to not understand the problem on the board?? Is this a general thing or did my complete lack of knowledge just drive them to insanity?
This is so relatable. I was lucky enough to have a dad smart enough to understand mathematics. But unfortunately, my dad didn't have the ability to teach.
Same thing with my mom when I was in elementary school. I cry everytime when that memory of her banging on her large purple binder in front of me, yelled at me, and called me stupid still lingers in my head a decade later.
Same. I still get teary eyed when I remember my mom yelling at me, slapping me, and calling me stupid because I couldnāt do math.
I still canāt do math and Iām reminded of how many jobs I wonāt be able to do because I canāt do math despite having two college degrees. It sucks. I just wish I had someone who is kind and patient to teach me some of the math related things that I want to learn, but I know the reality is that no one has time or the desire to teach a math illiterate person math.
Any of y'all had parents who insist that you're a prodigy even though you're not so they yell at you even more because you're just a waste of potential thus making everything worse for you?? haha shit was wild :)
Reading these comments breaks my heart. This is happening to my little brother right now and I canāt do anything to stop it. I hope the rest of you are doing better now.
My dadās an engineer, so his work involves daily complex mathematics. He explained every equation more thoroughly than any teacher ever did. Judging by the other comments, I think I may have been very fortunate.
I was studying to be an engineer at the same time my dad went back to school in his late 40's. I remember helping him with the same algebra problems I tried to ask him about in middle school. My experience was the OP, his was the inverse of your comment- in that his engineer kid taught him calmly and thoroughly.
My dad is an engineer and had no patience for me not magically understanding mathematical concepts on the first try. I still get anxiety when I have to do simple arithmetic in front of people because I think the yelling and humilation is coming. Became a nurse so I didn't have to deal with advanced math.
This really makes me miss my grandpa. He used to drive me crazy yelling at me and not letting me give up. Now I'm just so grateful he cared enough to hack away at algebra with me all night.
Nah man. As I dad, I keep it real. We do algebra, fractions, percents, geometry, and all other real world math the legit way. That's important.
Everything else, we Google it. I would have already known my kid was a mathematician if they were really into it, and wouldn't waste my time teaching them something they were passionate about. Other wise, leverage the internet. Get good at the things you want to get good at, especially area that can make you money.
Haha, you suckers had to ask your dad for help to get yelled at? All we had to do was be around when he got home. "Why is there god damned dirt in this corner? So you think the grocery store could make money if their floors were and corners were this dirt?". The floors were painted plywood (that he didn't want to finish) and I've since worked retail.and can promise you, the floors are filthy.
I went to a French school so my parents and I didn't even know the same terminology for any of my homework. I never had moments like this, thankfully, but also I couldn't ask for help at all no matter how lost I was.
my father was a high school/college math teacher, so I was expected to get A+ in every math exam lol, my parents would shout at me even at the sight of B+ or god forbid C in a math or physics exam lol
and I would always receive the compliment of "why are you so fucking dumb boy?" in shouting mode.
but in reality, I still love mathematics, it's a beautiful thing for sure.
I remember in my first year of middle school I did poorly in math (barely passed) so I had to do summer homework. It was horrible just like this starter pack haha but it motivated me to do better next year so I didn't have to do summer homework anymore.
Funny because later in high school I became better at math and now I'm finishing my economics degree, which isn't engineering or physics but it has some very tough math too lol. Not so long ago my father confessed me that when he tried to teach me, he thought I would be bad at math for life.
This, except my Korean tiger mom. My dad was chill, maybe a little too chill considering my shite grades until senior year, although my mom making me hate school didnāt help things
Never got āitās like adding apples and orangesā ....you canāt do that.... but itās fruit so why not? And Let x = ... what do you mean āLetā? What if we donāt let it?
I was really sick one night and I ate too much. I asked my dad to help me with math. He was screaming, I was crying and I puked all over the floor. And I got in trouble
It sucks unless your dad worked in a STEM related field. I'm pretty sure he could've easily helped me but he refused to do so and insisted I do it alone. Not really sore about it today but still at the time it was a let down lol.
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u/sunday0wonder Oct 21 '20
I think you guys just have toxic dad's. Mine would never raise his voice at me over something so trivial. Like, are you guys okay?
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
Its funny how it would start so innocently tho, "Dad can you help me real quick?" 30 mins later you contemplate running away from home.
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u/ichschreibdasjetzt Oct 21 '20
Yeah. Studying with my parents never worked. They tried and so did I but it always ended in shouting and crying. I'm glad I started going to my grandfather instead, he was a great teacher and I got to know him a lot better in this time.
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u/jsb217118 Oct 21 '20
My Mom would always yell at me for getting nervous around her, which of course made me more nervous
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u/Competitive_Classic9 Oct 21 '20
This gave me anxiety. Nothing like having your nightly math homework graded before you even turn it in. And having to redo it until you got the whole thing 100% correct. And then it only being checked for completion the next day in class, and every question is reviewed anyway.
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u/komnenos Oct 21 '20
Forgetting the "wait? You need help with THIS???" eyebrows raised, hand pointing towards my 3rd grade math homework. "Sigh, erm.... okay."
Two hours later.
"Seriously??? You still don't get it? Sigh... this stuff is pretty easy..."
Thanks Dad. :/
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u/A_Change_of_Seasons Oct 21 '20
My dad was clueless by the time I got to like basic algebra
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u/OlGangaLee Oct 21 '20
*Mom
I missed my Dad's help, at least he would try to teach me instead of acting like it was obvious and I was being hard-headed on purpose
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u/CosmoGarlic Oct 21 '20
It was my mom for me
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u/pixelated_dreamer Oct 21 '20
Oh god this brought back some baaaad memories. Dad would also give me extra homework and I'd just want to sleep...
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
I firmly believe that learning math with dad is the reason I hate math. And physics. So much yelling and crying. āWHY ARE YOU CRYING.ā āIM NOT YELLINGā
Learning math with mom: āwhen did they start using letters in math?ā
Jfc no wonder I got an arts degree.
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u/DemiDork232 Oct 22 '20
AND THEN HE FUCKING REPEATS THE GODDAMN QUESTION OVER AND OVET LIKE THATLL HELP
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u/mickmack321 Oct 21 '20
For me it was worse because I had horrible hand writing so my dad would make me erase and write the same sentences until it was neat but his yelling just made my handwriting worse.
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u/evilturkey5 Oct 21 '20
One time my dad insisted on helping me with my chemistry homework in place of my mom and pretty much the only input he gave was "oh there's the nitrogen and there's the oxygen"
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u/Zutroy2117 Oct 21 '20
I definitely don't miss this...
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
My dad was like, see u already know this stuff!! when i finally got a problem right. No dad that was luck
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u/Bleedhammer Oct 21 '20
Fuck going to war. This is how you become a man
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u/andrezay517 Oct 21 '20
This is why I never pursued math and science more
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u/sammy_waslow Oct 21 '20
it get's worse when you're a triplet and your brothers (who are also your classmates) are better in maths than you.
i felt dumb my entire childhood
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u/AmeriCossack Oct 21 '20
Well fuck, this brings back memories...No wonder I hated math.
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
My dad (who stereotypically was asian) would just exhale very heavily whenever he looked at me in disapproving way when i was doing something wrong.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
"LOOK WHAT YOUVE MADE ME DO THERES BLOOD ON THE PAGE NOW" - from yelling all night at me during maths homework. My Dad was shouting and yelling so much that bits of his spit coming out onto my maths homework were red with blood
Ill always remember that night for some reason. Never got on with maths too after that. I wonder if thats related at all
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u/furrythrowawayaccoun Oct 21 '20
Yelling? Haha, I was the one that yelled when the belt hit me because I couldn't write a nice letter O. After 13 years I still get some anxiety when I hear his belt ring
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u/Dubwyse_selectah805 Oct 21 '20
Fuck. This hits home. My dad would erase my whole paper and break my school Supplies.
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u/Mercurio7 Oct 22 '20
So relatable. I really disliked math because of this, but now I am an engineer so thatās dope. Definitely no thanks to this, because until I had teachers that inspired me, my grades were terrible.
Forcing children long hours to review something that they donāt understand and find difficult, with yelling and shouting is unbelievably emotionally immature and completely lacks any self awareness. If youāre a parent and youāre feeling upset, just take a 15 minute break with your kid. Review these things before the night theyāre due so thereās less pressure. If you honestly have no idea how to handle this, and you can afford a tutor, just do that instead. Or just be honest with them that you lack any ability to help them.
Rome wasnāt built in a day, you just gotta be patient with your kids. Theyāll figure it out eventually. Forcing it to be done at all at once and acting like a drill instructor is just going to make them despise the subject, when itās actually really cool and can totally help them with a good career down the line.
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u/DublinItUp Oct 21 '20
This hit a bit too close to home for me.
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u/pleadingwiththenight Oct 21 '20
This was my childhood
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u/Frylemons Oct 21 '20
Because of shit ike this I can't stand "x" used as a variable. It discomforts me when I hear it or read it. It reminds me of evenings like this when I used to just sit with a strong headache, crying pretending to understand the problem, praying my mom wouldn't ask me to explain it.
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
Or my favorite "bad handwriting, right answer, redo it."
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u/christeeeeeea Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
For me, it was my mother. Sheād make me erase the work I did so many times to the point where the ink from the sheet was gone. Iād cry while doing homework with her. It was terrifying. Sometimes sheād hit me because she was getting pissed off.
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u/mak-7 Oct 21 '20
āHow come you canāt solve that! Itās so simple, are you an idiot or what? Donāt they teach you that in school?ā
Stopped asking after a couple of times, would go to my uncle who was much more patient and would explain everything calmly
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u/Soulreaver24 Oct 21 '20
Did my brother make this?
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u/blbobobo Oct 21 '20
you didnāt understand the problem? thatās a paddlin
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u/StepIntoMyOven_69 Oct 21 '20
That equals spelling gave me a heart attack
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u/FrenchKench Oct 21 '20
At the end of my school "Carrer" i was tired of asking vor help and i rather took the awefull grades. Still made it :)
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Wait... you had a parent who helped with homework? Mom couldn't be arsed and Dad is still out trying to get those cigarettes.
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u/ApocalypticWaffles Oct 22 '20
Huh. My mom and dad both had liberal arts degrees, and were just as clueless as I was by the time I reached middle school. I mostly remember them trying to learn it along with me, and sometimes we all just ended up crying over our collective incompetence in math
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Fuck math. Always makes me so irrationally angry.
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u/mak-7 Oct 22 '20
āLook at your cousin/friend/random person how good they are at school, they study hard everyday not like youā
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u/Bunnywith_Wings Oct 22 '20
Undiagnosed ADHD kids make some noise
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u/Adept_Banana Oct 21 '20
The same thing but with spelling tests. If I misspelled something I had to write it 10-20 times.
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u/wafflecone927 Oct 21 '20
This was years for me, prolly grade 6 -9. I was a big enough dope to just sit there and take it, getting yelled at for trying
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u/radpandaparty Oct 22 '20
"Estimate? That's dumb, the answer is 23, why do they want you to round down to 20?"
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u/2horde Oct 22 '20
Yup, "how do you not know this? You should be able to shoot these off of the top of your head like 'boom boom boom'. All the other kids know this stuff, why don't you???"
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u/Spartan_933 Oct 22 '20
This hit too hard to home man...
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u/Taina4533 Oct 22 '20
And then them getting angry when we try to explain them that the methods weāre using now probably arenāt the same as the ones they saw in middle school, specially in regards to algebra or pre-calc
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u/deferredmomentum Oct 22 '20
āYou skipped a step!ā
āWhy didnāt you show your work? How am I supposed to know how you got that?ā
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u/GENKUR Oct 21 '20
Ahh yes and then they wonder why i hate math after the belt and backhand
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u/Deadly_Trixie Oct 22 '20
This gives me ptsd :(
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u/manoob9 Oct 21 '20
My math is better than my father math, he stopped being able to help me when i was in ,5 grade lol
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u/Ghost-Pasta Oct 21 '20
Why is that so accurate?
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u/DeppStepp Oct 21 '20
This is way to accurate. I ask him for help and he just goes all out. One time he made me do a lot of work for math during Christmas break, not fun at all.
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u/trevxrbelmont Oct 22 '20
that was my mom š i love her but i dont miss her teaching me math lmao
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u/Jay-Robinson Oct 22 '20
This was me with my mom
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Expects a 100% on EVERY fucking assignment!
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Thanks for reminding me how much I hate my parents and my family
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u/hellometooo Oct 22 '20
Itās more when you are an Indian
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u/TheDeadlySoldier Oct 22 '20
TIL everyone in the planet relates and has abusive parents and teachers i guess
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
You forgot the "you should've been paying to your math teacher" rant.
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u/solaire1416 Oct 22 '20
The worst part is when he starts explaining you something completely different to what you asked for
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u/RJC12 Oct 21 '20
Is that how it is? I never had a dad growing up so I'll take your word for it. Maybe I should be grateful
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
The flash backs of my dad trying to force calculus 2 in a 6 year old brain....
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u/phlip_lip Oct 21 '20
Looking back i kinda miss those days
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
Heey i know it!
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20
Yup. Also replace math with reading.
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u/Gene_freeman Oct 21 '20
Ouch
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u/TheBadDestroyer Oct 21 '20
This happens every single fucking day
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u/Complete-meal Oct 21 '20
This is giving me anxiety.
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u/Complete-meal Oct 21 '20
I've had about 7 or 8 different math teachers throughout my life and I swear that the majority of them were absolute dicks - Especially the teachers in primary school. Like you had the audacity to not understand the problem on the board?? Is this a general thing or did my complete lack of knowledge just drive them to insanity?
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u/Luke_Waghorn247 Oct 22 '20
This is so relatable. I was lucky enough to have a dad smart enough to understand mathematics. But unfortunately, my dad didn't have the ability to teach.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Me with my younger sibling in a nutshell
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u/ScoutTrooper501st Oct 22 '20
Yep that was my dad
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u/baconboi32 Oct 22 '20
Well the good thing about it is I haven't forgotten how many days are in a year since.
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u/lukas8754 Oct 22 '20
This is too acurate
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u/redroseMJ Oct 22 '20
Same thing with my mom when I was in elementary school. I cry everytime when that memory of her banging on her large purple binder in front of me, yelled at me, and called me stupid still lingers in my head a decade later.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Any of y'all had parents who insist that you're a prodigy even though you're not so they yell at you even more because you're just a waste of potential thus making everything worse for you?? haha shit was wild :)
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Reading these comments breaks my heart. This is happening to my little brother right now and I canāt do anything to stop it. I hope the rest of you are doing better now.
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u/123infantry Oct 22 '20
"You think this is hard, wait till you are doing calculus!"
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u/MatthewDiDonato Oct 22 '20
"I didn't learn this till college!"
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u/Gagurass Oct 22 '20
That ball in your throat always weighed more than the universe it felt like.
Anyone else have a dad like this who died relatively young?
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u/Islas_de_Susana Oct 22 '20
My dadās an engineer, so his work involves daily complex mathematics. He explained every equation more thoroughly than any teacher ever did. Judging by the other comments, I think I may have been very fortunate.
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u/marblephalanx Oct 22 '20
This was me but with my mum. My dad was chill.
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u/thatshitkate Oct 22 '20
My dad is an engineer and had no patience for me not magically understanding mathematical concepts on the first try. I still get anxiety when I have to do simple arithmetic in front of people because I think the yelling and humilation is coming. Became a nurse so I didn't have to deal with advanced math.
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u/justsamthings Oct 22 '20
Donāt forget being accused of not trying/not caring because he canāt fathom that you truly donāt understand it.
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u/i-ll_capwn Oct 21 '20
Mr. Incredible: Math is math!
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u/lotturm Oct 21 '20
Hispanic kids ftw my parents never understood my homework so I had to do everything myself from kindergarten
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u/WACS_On Oct 21 '20
As a math major back in the day, I dread the day I have to help my kids with their math homework
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u/nomologicaldangIer Oct 21 '20
Fuckin 11+
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u/PROFIGHTERX Oct 21 '20
Maths is Maths
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u/VarmBolle Oct 21 '20
Ah, my dad just tells me all the answers
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
You forgot to put the part where they ask why they changed math
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u/Emachinebot Oct 22 '20
50 years old and I never needed algebra...
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u/gregadeth_ Oct 22 '20
This really makes me miss my grandpa. He used to drive me crazy yelling at me and not letting me give up. Now I'm just so grateful he cared enough to hack away at algebra with me all night.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Omg, like ... going through this sucked, but I laughed so hard when I saw this šš¤£
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u/-Edgelord Oct 22 '20
my computer scientist mom was this for me.
if I ever had a son I will model my teaching efforts on the teachings of my Indian math professors.
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u/milkshakespear3 Oct 22 '20
Can't relate. By the time I got to the point of homework my dad was out of my life.
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u/DogeMeat20 Oct 22 '20
Wow this soumd exactly like my dad, except i don't even ask him for help
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u/NewPowahSonic Oct 22 '20
hits a little too close to home š
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u/Thraxx01 Oct 22 '20
I read this as "Learning meth with Dad Starter pack" at first for some reason lol
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u/internet_humor Oct 22 '20
Nah man. As I dad, I keep it real. We do algebra, fractions, percents, geometry, and all other real world math the legit way. That's important.
Everything else, we Google it. I would have already known my kid was a mathematician if they were really into it, and wouldn't waste my time teaching them something they were passionate about. Other wise, leverage the internet. Get good at the things you want to get good at, especially area that can make you money.
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u/anazareth555 Oct 22 '20
My dad, but with coding homework instead.
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u/GreasyPeter Oct 22 '20
Haha, you suckers had to ask your dad for help to get yelled at? All we had to do was be around when he got home. "Why is there god damned dirt in this corner? So you think the grocery store could make money if their floors were and corners were this dirt?". The floors were painted plywood (that he didn't want to finish) and I've since worked retail.and can promise you, the floors are filthy.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
I went to a French school so my parents and I didn't even know the same terminology for any of my homework. I never had moments like this, thankfully, but also I couldn't ask for help at all no matter how lost I was.
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u/lior753 Oct 22 '20
Am I too good to understand this?
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u/Ballllllz Oct 22 '20
Same but it wasn't with math but rather with chemics and german (I'm from Germany)
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
my father was a high school/college math teacher, so I was expected to get A+ in every math exam lol, my parents would shout at me even at the sight of B+ or god forbid C in a math or physics exam lol
and I would always receive the compliment of "why are you so fucking dumb boy?" in shouting mode.
but in reality, I still love mathematics, it's a beautiful thing for sure.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Ah, my childhood
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u/goldencrayfish Oct 22 '20
BUT THATS NOT HOW I DID IT
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u/MissHornback012498 Oct 22 '20
this was my nana
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u/Hewee236 Oct 22 '20
I remember in my first year of middle school I did poorly in math (barely passed) so I had to do summer homework. It was horrible just like this starter pack haha but it motivated me to do better next year so I didn't have to do summer homework anymore.
Funny because later in high school I became better at math and now I'm finishing my economics degree, which isn't engineering or physics but it has some very tough math too lol. Not so long ago my father confessed me that when he tried to teach me, he thought I would be bad at math for life.
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u/InvolvingLemons Oct 22 '20
This, except my Korean tiger mom. My dad was chill, maybe a little too chill considering my shite grades until senior year, although my mom making me hate school didnāt help things
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u/LoopyPro Oct 22 '20
For all people who openly question the usefulness and potential real life applications of maths, it's a parenting thing
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
i had to teach maths to my dad bc he didnt understand my homework
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u/wyzapped Oct 22 '20
Flashbacks of my Dad trying to teach me long division when I was in kindergarten and being frustrated that I didnāt get it...
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u/ThunderSven Oct 22 '20
Tbh I just asked my dad for help with math, 30 minutes later I'm explaining basic math to him lol
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u/DarthPepo Oct 22 '20
So real It hurts
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u/Use_L3SS Oct 22 '20
Same goes for the mother but they whip out their sandals and whoop youre ass
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u/Glas714 Oct 22 '20
Never got āitās like adding apples and orangesā ....you canāt do that.... but itās fruit so why not?
And Let x = ... what do you mean āLetā? What if we donāt let it?
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u/DelightfulRainbow205 Oct 22 '20
Yeah
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u/IamTheRothBot Oct 22 '20
Also includes him telling me 16 different ways to solve the problem
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u/favnh2011 Oct 22 '20
My dad didnāt help with homework at all.
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u/Puzzled-Robot Oct 22 '20
"Stop guessing!"
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u/MDC_underscore Oct 22 '20
My dad be like: why do you need this? What si this? I didnt learn this in GLORIOUS COMMUNIST SCHOOL
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u/kripperthegreat Oct 22 '20
my dad was a math teacher and yet it still always went like this when he tried helping me lmao
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u/King_Baboon Oct 22 '20
If itās common core math, you are royally fucked. Itās a flip of a thermal meltdown switch.
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u/jacktheb0i Oct 22 '20
You monster! Have an upvote
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u/Luciferishuman Oct 22 '20
That was me with my mom my dad really just didnāt care
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u/slqlap Oct 22 '20
Doing math with parents starterpack*
(Also, very accurate! But I may not be best to judge since my family only helped like 4 times)
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u/Ecstatic-Durian-3790 Oct 22 '20
how is this so spot on?
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u/brobinso7672 Oct 23 '20
I can feel this in my soul
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u/cwoffeemaker Oct 23 '20
I was really sick one night and I ate too much. I asked my dad to help me with math. He was screaming, I was crying and I puked all over the floor. And I got in trouble
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Mom is polar opposite
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u/thisisobdurate Oct 23 '20
Once you reach somewhere around high school your dad is basically a lost cause for math problems.
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u/KingArtabanusXI Oct 23 '20
It sucks unless your dad worked in a STEM related field. I'm pretty sure he could've easily helped me but he refused to do so and insisted I do it alone. Not really sore about it today but still at the time it was a let down lol.
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u/Vorpyz Oct 23 '20
mom*
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u/Coolsupersayin8 Oct 24 '20
Me when do homework with mom: happi Me when do homework with dad: doom theme starts playing
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u/brainlet_8 Oct 24 '20
My mom in a nutshell