Date: 10/16/2012 9:51:00 AM
From Authorid: 10773
Yikes! May want to bring it up with the principal, because that's no good!  |
Date: 10/16/2012 9:54:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 15228
I have a parent teacher conference on Thursday and plan on asking, but I'm sure he has a rehearsed answer for it. Teachers are never wrong.  |
Date: 10/16/2012 10:22:00 AM
From Authorid: 61966
I thought the point of homework was to make sure they had an understanding..so it should defintely be gone over in class! I hope the tutor can help but I would defintely ask the teacher about it during the conference. Ugh, Algebra is hard...I remember having a hard time staying afloat in Algebra II.  |
Date: 10/16/2012 10:47:00 AM
From Authorid: 64819
When I was in geometry, it was like that, but the teacher gave us two grades, one for completion, another that was actually a grade, but she also went over the homework to make sure we understood it.  |
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Date: 10/16/2012 10:48:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 15228
Adora, Madison says that he asks if anyone has any questions, but that's it. |
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Date: 10/16/2012 11:39:00 AM
From Authorid: 10773
That is just unbelievable. Where is the *teaching* part in this? :-\ |
Date: 10/16/2012 12:27:00 PM
From Authorid: 64819
I remember my algebra teacher didn't like me much, I had a hard time understanding math, I mean, it took me until 6th grade to do multiplication properly.
I remember telling the teacher that I didn't understand, and she explained it to me, and I still didn't understand, she explained it to me several differing ways, but I still didn't understand, I mean she tried, and I got on her nerves, she looked at me and ask me how stupid I was, that she couldn't explain it any simpler. I just quit trying that day after being so embarrassed in front of the class.
My geometry teacher had the same problem for a bit, cause I told her that I didn't understand the work, and she said that it was something I should have learned in algebra class, I shut up and didn't say anything else. The geometry teacher went and talked to the algebra teacher, and found out that I had pretty much been passed to keep me from being in her class again. The geometry teacher worked with me more after that, cause she understood that I didn't even learn the basics for her class. |
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Date: 10/16/2012 12:46:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 15228
Sailor Sun, to be fair, he does go over the lesson before he assigns the homework. |
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Date: 10/16/2012 12:49:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 15228
Adora, you sound just like my daughter. Luckily no teacher has told her she is stupid. My son-in-law is tutoring her, she grasps it at the time, but it's like she doesn't retain it...it's frustrating for both of them. I think summer Algebra is in our future. |
Date: 10/16/2012 1:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 42945
I hated Algebra...took me years it seems to grasp it..my teacher showed impatience when I would continually ask questions so in the end I stopped asking because she always made me feel stupid..along with several others in the class..to this day I shudder at that word...  |
Date: 10/16/2012 7:04:00 PM
From Authorid: 65687
I'm actually a sophomore, and my teachers for the past three years have been like that. Except this year, taking an advanced Algebra II class (since most of my class is in Geometry this year... I'm an advanced student, also third year Spanish, etc.) my teacher, is horrible. She's a great person outside of school, but in class, she's not the best. She doesn't even check our homework! She assigns it and the students who do it don't get anything, and the students who don't get the answers for nothing! The only time she checks homework is when there is a quiz she asks us to copy down one or two of our homework problems. And then its only for like "2 points" apeice. It is so aggravating that she gives away answers to students who don't do the homework, while some students stay up until late at night trying to finish that... And everyone has caught on to the pattern, so when she announces a quiz, they ONLY do the problems they know she will ask for. It's ridiculous!
P.S., A tutor is always a great way to go. I wish I had a tutor when I had been in Algebra I. Now I understand things easier because of my amazing Geometry Teacher from last year (So I was a teacher's pet... Miss Hassall loved me!  ) but I still don't understand things that are easy for other students because they easily picked it up in Algebra I. Tell her good luck and try her best from me. And if she's anything like me (hopefully not!) then EVERYTHING other students think is super easy will be extremely difficult, and anything that is supposed to be REALLY challenging will be SUPER easy! <-- That makes things difficult as a student, though I'm not sure why I have it like that. Anyway, tell her good luck, and SO many teachers are like that, so get used to it, but make sure she understands it before approving level changes or level passes!  |
