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By gutav indogop - 24/06/2011 06:47 - Switzerland

Today, one of my students corrected the problem I had solved on the board, explaining that you do multiplication before subtraction. I teach the second grade. FML

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By englishfail - This FML is from back in 2010 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML

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By IvyLeague? - 15/01/2013 02:52 - United States - Buffalo

Today, I was babysitting, and a little girl asked for help with her homework. I cheerfully began an explanation, only to freeze mid-sentence. I could not for the life of me remember how to do long-division. I'm about to graduate from Cornell University, and her little brother had to correct me. FML

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By Noname - 10/03/2009 15:46 - United States

Today, the kids I teach informed me that I had spelled my name incorrectly on the board. I looked at it and assured them that I had spelled it correctly. I'm 22 and a graduate student, they're six and mentally challenged. Guess who was right? FML

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By Mightaswelltutordogs - 21/12/2014 01:16 - United States - Gainesville

Today, I had to find simple words to explain to the idiot I was tutoring that "1/4" is not of a greater value than "1/3" just because the denominator is bigger. FML

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Maths is hard

By Anonymous - 01/04/2014 17:07 - Canada - Cranbrook

Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML

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By TeaSea - 11/02/2018 01:30

Today, I told my class I was giving them 60 seconds to do a problem. A girl replied furiously "At least give us one minute!!" I teach a high school honors math class. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/12/2009 17:35 - United States

Today, my math TA showed the class how one of her "dumb" students answered a test question. Everyone laughed as she wrote out the students answer, including myself, until I looked down at my answer sheet and saw that I submitted an identical answer. FML

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Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone!

By Anonymous - 24/09/2021 13:58

Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML

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By riahta - 06/08/2010 06:45 - United States

Today, I was playing a math game with a 4th grade boy (I'm a college graduate). I cheated during the entire game, and still lost 7 of the 9 rounds we played. FML

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By wasted time - 19/12/2013 09:09 - United States

Today, I learned, 90 horrifying minutes into a college exam, that my 85-year-old calculus teacher had spent the last three weeks teaching us the wrong chapter. FML

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Friday 24 June 2011 11:55

teacher became the student

duztx 0

Friday 24 June 2011 11:54

Way to go...

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DuLLa 7

Friday 24 June 2011 13:17

I've always disliked teachers like you.

tayza249 20

Friday 24 June 2011 13:25

BODMAS :)

RyanMacVey 17

Friday 24 June 2011 13:28

brackets, order, divide, multiply, add, subtract :D

meggs2209 0

Saturday 25 June 2011 6:34

thats so different from how we learned it! PEMDAS- parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

jimbohampton 2

Saturday 25 June 2011 6:38

What so you think the B and O stand for?

MissSunshinexox 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:32

you taught them well then :)

Spuffy747 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:40

PEMDAS

MissSunshinexox 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:46

sorry just wondering what's PEMDAS?? cox I learnt BODMAS

IloveyouJon 11

Friday 24 June 2011 13:53

parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, divide, addition, subtraction (:

MissSunshinexox 0

Friday 24 June 2011 14:12

thanks but what's the first two?

austinkiser 3

Friday 24 June 2011 14:18

line them up (ex. p =b, e=o and so on or google it

MissSunshinexox 0

Friday 24 June 2011 14:33

thank you

Inspired22 11

Friday 24 June 2011 14:47

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

Spuffy747 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:41

PEMDAS

anonymous31_fml 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:45

My 10H English teacher refused to believe me when he spelled Shakespeare on the board as "Shakespere". teachers these days...

MissSunshinexox 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:49

I totally agree, I hate teachers who dnt own up to their mistakes... seriously!

wriptidez 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:45

off day is all

PSQ91 6

Friday 24 June 2011 13:45

2+2*3=12 is that right?

geeksaresexy 18

Friday 24 June 2011 15:23

nope 8 :)

rewshrew 0

Friday 24 June 2011 13:47

BEDMAS.

madz5758 10

Friday 24 June 2011 13:57

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally!

meggs2209 0

Saturday 25 June 2011 6:36

that's how I learned it too!! don't know what this BOMDAS crap is...

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