Worst Things That Could Happen During Math Class

1. You have to sit next to the kid you hate

   

   I will never forget the day my 8th-grade math teacher moved everyone's seats around the classroom and made me sit next to one of my bullies. She completely ignored our pleas not to be seated together on Monday, 3/2/2020. Our desks were toward the front of the classroom, so she probably heard Laurynn gossiping about me during the few days we were next to each other in 3rd period.

   One time, I got stuck with a bunch of silly boys who did nothing but look up memes on their phones whenever the teacher's back was turned. I do NOT need to hear about dank weed while I'm dealing with tricky integrals, thank you very much.

2. The fire alarm goes off

   

3. Calculators are not allowed

   

   I would hate to not be able to use a calculator in class.

4. You doze off, the teacher calls on you to answer the question and you don't know the answer

   One time, I fell asleep in a social studies lesson while the teacher was giving instructions on homework that was due the next day. Oops...

   This happened to me in college like 2 weeks ago, and it was really awkward.

   I was daydreaming in math, and then the teacher called on me, and I was like, Uh, what? Then I said, Oh, it's 67.

5. You sit there, dazed and confused because you have no idea what the heck is going on anymore

6. You fail a test

   

   Dad: Why did you fail a simple test?

   Me: I didn't study.

   Dad: Your punishment is to watch Dora and Barney.

   Me: NOO!

   I did this for humor. I mostly pass my tests with B's.

   I think what's more stressful is waiting for the teacher to give you your test so you can find out what grade you got.

   I almost always fail my math tests.

7. You change seats and can't sit next to your crush

   It didn't happen to me in math, but in science.

   You know what's worse? Not having one at all.

8. You forget to do the homework

   

   That happened to me, so I did it during the first hour! Hopefully, the teacher didn't see me.

9. The teacher starts ranting about behavior

   It's especially annoying when it's not even my fault. This happened just because of a few troublemakers who weren't dedicated to studying math in the first place. Thankfully, I'm in the top class now, where teachers never have to resort to this.

   That's what my gym teacher does all the time.

10. You and your friends get separated because you were talking in class

    

    I talk to my best friends in class. No wonder the teacher doesn't let me sit by them.

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    Nerds bully the ones who don't understand

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    Your best friend keeps making faces at you and you're trying not to laugh

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13. The substitute teacher is clueless

    It's a good thing. My son was clueless about what homework to give us, and it was 15 pages of math, but I told her that we must eat ice cream and make paper planes for homework. She believed it. Boom.

    That's a good thing for me because then I can look at things on my computer.

14. You get too much homework

    

    Luckily, my math class hardly ever gives us homework, as all the emphasis is on self-study. It's a much better system because we can really focus on the topics we're struggling with instead of repeating our best topics over and over again.

    There's only so much time in the day we can set aside for homework without giving up everything else. If only Biology class understood that too...

15. You forget your textbook

    

    This happened to me once, but the teacher didn't notice since I kept my backpack in front of me.

    My class always has a ton of spares.

16. You get lost in what the teacher is saying because they talk so fast for so long

    I don't get as lost anymore, but my math teacher still does this all the time.

17. A teacher comes in and shouts at the class

    

18. The teacher catches you drawing something inappropriate

19. The power goes out during a lesson

20. Your teacher yells at you for not understanding how to do complex math

    This happened to me back in spring 2016 when I was in 4th grade. My strict 4th-grade teacher yelled at me once for not being able to understand a math problem, even after it was explained to me several times, and sent me out into the hallway.

    That was one of the dumbest reasons I ever got in trouble.

21. You doze off and don't learn the material

22. You get distracted when the teacher is explaining something

23. Your chair breaks

    

    That happened to me, and I fell on the person behind me!

24. The teacher announces they need to be sick

25. Your teacher assigns homework on a lesson that hasn't been taught in class yet

    This happened to me so many times. In my statistics class, it happened OVER THE WEEKEND, and it was so confusing. I couldn't contact the teacher because she wouldn't respond to my emails!