For you Job Hunters OT, maybe

Guys, if you have a master's degree in Mathematics, please, Please PLEASE
consider putting in a resume at Fayetteville Technical Community College.
In fact, if you are job hunting and have a masters or better in any subject,
community colleges can use you. There are major advantages to working at
the community college level. You don't have to publish or perish, you can
kick out those who act like horses behinds, and the pay is much better than
at the grade/middle/high school levels.

Yes, I looked and that idjit math instructor is still there. I had it
confirmed today that he flunked over a quarter of the class I was in. I
don't know what it says to you, but to me it says that he can't teach. Oh,
John, I learned more from the internet help you gave me than I did from the
idjit.

Pam S. who really wants to learn from a good teacher and

jmcquown...

Maybe you finally got a good teacher? I'm not mathmatically inclined. My
forte is the written word. It was my misfortune to have a father with a
degree in mathematical engineering. This is not a criticism of him; more
power to him and all that :) He made me sit at the kitchen table at age
nine for *hours* trying to work out math problems so I'd get better at it.
It didn't help (and did nothing but frustrate the both of us). To this day
I can't balance my check book without using a calculator.

Jane...

I'm only just now realizing that I was very blessed in school. I had
the greatest teachers. I LOVED LOVED LOVED math and used to copy down
pages of quadratic equations to solve in my spare time, FOR FUN. I
used to do logirithms by hand, for fun. Yes, I was a sick little girl.
*grin*

And that's how I ended up in computers. I'm about as creative as a
crutch, and I probably can't write a decent thank you note, but boy do
I understand computers.

Jane
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badwilson...

That's what I said. I thought I was no good at math until I finally got
a good teacher and realized that I was perfectly fine at it. The
teacher makes all the difference.
Your dad sounds a lot like mine. My dad has a degree in aeronautical
engineering and he was so upset that I couldn't do math, he used to lock
me in my room with pages of problems and I wouldn't be allowed to come
out until I had done them. But he couldn't explain it to me either, he
would just do one problem really fast in front of me and say, "See, it's
easy. That's how you do it, now do the rest." I would cry and cry and
cry in my room and get no problems done. Every so often he would come
in and check on me and when he saw that I had no problems solved, he
would yell at me and slam the door. I got very intimidated. My mom
would try to make me feel better by telling me that it's ok, I probably
got it from her because she's no good at math either. Good lord, what a
totally FUBAR situation that was :-(