I Failed Geometry

[Brigid]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1937146' date='Jul 31 2009, 08:16 PM']Geometry was the easiest math course I've ever taken.

[/quote]

you're so modest, rexi.

I thought geometry was hard...

there's a difference between being smart and being good at school. one of my friends gets down on herself because most people in our group of friends are really ridiculously good at school. she calls herself "dumb", but she's not at all. it makes me mad.

[Christie_M]

geomatry + me= fail.
i've been copying off my sister's answers





in return i "help" her with her english











one advantage of homeschooling...

[Archaeology cat]

I didn't like geometry. Except for the part about trig, that was OK.

[Dan]

I thought geometry was an automotive term. Let me explain...

The Geo was a vehicle marketed by GM.

As it was originally designed to measure fuel in litres vs gallons, it stands to reason it measured distance in meters not miles, so....

Geo-meter-y which was mispronounced so often it became geometry -- simple.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Brigid' post='1937420' date='Jul 31 2009, 11:58 PM']
you're so modest, rexi.

I thought geometry was hard... [/quote]

I wasn't meaning to brag. I don't think I had a very good teacher. He made the class too easy...


I'm sorry if what I said was rude, The Bus Station.

Edited August 1, 2009 by Resurrexi

[homeschoolmom]

When we were in college, HSdad put an eggburger from the cafeteria into a glass jar and sealed it with wax so that we could watch it disintegrate. (We sort of had a collection of "food in jars.") After about a week or so, he decided that it needed more oxygen in order to really work (apparently, not much was happening...). So, he opened it. It cleared the whole wing. Men were running like crazy. It was horrible. (He and his friends kept that jar and the rest of the food collection for years, I might add.)

He was a math major. He taught geometry.

[rachael]

um, ew?

[homeschoolmom]

That was the only anecdote I could think of linking eggs to geometry.

[The Bus Station]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1937809' date='Aug 1 2009, 07:01 AM']I wasn't meaning to brag. I don't think I had a very good teacher. He made the class too easy...


I'm sorry if what I said was rude, The Bus Station. [/quote]

It was, but I forgive you

[rachael]

geometry was the only math i was good at because i could visualize it....the others....

[homeschoolmom]

My teacher for my first semester of HS geometry was retiring at the end of the year. He no longer cared about math and so, I didn't either. Second semester, I had the baseball coach for Geometry and he was more concerned about getting rained out than proofs. He also faced the blackboard when he talked. It was not my favorite subject.

[rachael]

i was all about science, except for chemistry....because it was like math. oh, and government, yearbook, and broadcasting.

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1937851' date='Aug 1 2009, 08:37 AM']That was the only anecdote I could think of linking eggs to geometry.[/quote]


Sorry... I'm a math major. I didn't know what to say sympathetically without sounding callous so I said something obscure that I was good at to go with Rachael's awesome post.

That and I made some kick butt eggs for dinner last night and I wanted to share.

[rachael]

you didn't stink up the place afterwards, did you?

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='rachael' post='1937920' date='Aug 1 2009, 11:19 AM']you didn't stink up the place afterwards, did you? [/quote]


Unfortunately, no. I'm a clean freak so all the dishes generally get done right away, so there wasn't anything to stink.

[rachael]

i was talking about the eggs.

[Deus te Amat]

No.

[rachael]

oh

[Deus te Amat]

Jealous?

[rachael]

no