Reasons why I will never be a teacher.

[madbaker]

I've been helping several of my classmates with Macro-economics. It's a tough subject.

What I can't - I mean literally, can't understand is how someone who has gone through college doesn't understand basic algebra. Or even basic multiplication.
So I don't understand how to explain around that.

Comments

[tshuma]

Algebra I understand, not because I think it is hard, but because I have watched several different friends in college struggle with it repeatedly. It isn't hard to me, but I accept that it can be a hard subject to others. (Linear algebra and vector calculus appears to be where my brain stops functioning at 100%.)

But multiplication, man? I got nothing.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

This isn't a slam on anyone. Just that I can't empathize and can't really explain to someone who doesn't understand the concepts. Good teachers can and must; I'm not one.

[tshuma]

Yeah. I mean, I kind of remember how to teach multiplication, but it goes so far back in my mathematical learning that I'm not sure I could really pull it out past the multiplication is repetitive addition examples.