Math Class

As I prepared for math this morning (and by "prepared" I mean got my notebook out to write notes in) I thought to myself, I need something to wake me up because I'm tired. So I sat patiently waiting for something to wake me up. That was stupid. Who waits for something to wake them up? I was tired.



Something did happen which was amazing. As Mr Teacher was telling us students how to put an equation into our very over priced calculators, we all followed with intensity. He then said, "and by putting that all into the calculator we get a graph with nothing on it". Thank you for making me to all that work just so nothing happens. Now what happened next you might read and go "Jon, that happens and people make mistakes." Just keep reading on thank you. I heard this response "actually my graph has something on it". Mr. Teacher quickly snapped back with, "did you put parenthesis around the exponent?" "Oh no hehe". Simple mistake right? Wrong. Our last class was spent by students trying to correct Mr. Teacher with their answers coming from their calculators. Every time they would try to correct him he would ask if they had put the equation in correctly. Every time was the same story, "oh no I forgot to put that in". Ok, so by this time in our lives of math here at Chemeketa we should learn that when Mr. Teacher says this is the answer that we should get on our calculators, then thats probably the right answer. When you get something different then every other person in the class including the teacher, maybe fight the urge to speak up boldly and proudly like you found a mistake and you have the correct answer, and spare yourself the embarrassment of getting shot out of the sky and falling face first. No matter how many times it happens, people don't think to check how they put the equation into their calculator and they speak to quickly. Also I'm pretty sure every calculator in that class (which are Texas Instruments) have the same software on them. So I'm pretty sure if you have a different answer then everyone else you put the equation in wrong. Thank you for you attempt though! I love it.
-Jon