Your Weirdest TeacherThe strangest teacher at my school used to practice his lessons at night. We'd watch through the classroom windows as he did his entire lesson, complete with questions to the class and telling off misbehaving students.
Were your teachers as strange? Of course they were...
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chthonic, Wed 9 Nov 2005, 13:43)
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Maths InnuendoMy maths teacher in years 9, 10 and 11 was a fantastic teacher, but had an odd tendency to insert innuendos into everything. She made odd fanfare noises when a solution was reached, or sometimes funny squeaks when a difficulty arose. She spent several minutes talking about how mensuration sounds a bit like menstruation but female teachers were not embarrassed by that (we were, though). There are other incidents which I can't remember, but the one that stands out was discussing a question about linear programming.
Linear programming is almost, but not quite as dull as it sounds. Basically it involves plotting inequalities on graphs to determine where the optimum values needed in the question are. Often the questions involve shops having to stock no more than x quantity of something, but no less than y, and no more than 1.5 x the amount of something else. This requires plotting the variables on axes.
The question we discussed was about a chicken farm having to maintain the correct balance of hens and cockerels:
"most of you plotted c on the x axis, but some of you preferred vertical cocks - AS IT WERE"
(, Wed 16 Nov 2005, 22:33, Reply)
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