Math Disability - Need to Vent, Need Advice

[ADD_Pyrate_Gurl]

Yeah, I've been feeling super empowered all day. And I also found out that the play I'm working on (helping to design with the help of my fellow classmates), I actually have two jobs. Props (which I knew) and Master Electrician! I want to be a lighting designer, and as a lighting designer I need to know about the ME's job (cuz I'd be working with him/her) and so it's good to understand their job. The reason they gave me two jobs is because my school participates in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and there is no competition for Master Electricians, so they put me with props as well to give me a way to compete. So I'm 25% props and 75% Master Electrician (or should I say Mistress Electrician? )

[CheekyMonkey]

Originally Posted by ADD_Pyrate_Gurl

Yeah, I've been feeling super empowered all day. And I also found out that the play I'm working on (helping to design with the help of my fellow classmates), I actually have two jobs. Props (which I knew) and Master Electrician! I want to be a lighting designer, and as a lighting designer I need to know about the ME's job (cuz I'd be working with him/her) and so it's good to understand their job. The reason they gave me two jobs is because my school participates in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and there is no competition for Master Electricians, so they put me with props as well to give me a way to compete. So I'm 25% props and 75% Master Electrician (or should I say Mistress Electrician? )

I totally have this vision of Mistress Electrician with a cape and thunderbolts radiating from her.

[MX2012]

Sadly, some idiots do become teachers.
Congrats on your success.
There are many ways to get an education, too bad, he is such a limited thinker.

[ADD_Pyrate_Gurl]

Originally Posted by CheekyMonkey

I totally have this vision of Mistress Electrician with a cape and thunderbolts radiating from her.

Oooh! Does that mean Mistress Electrician is Thor's long lost little sister? score! Ooooh... that means I could meet Loki and give him snuggles! I swear Loki just needs some lovin's... he's not really evil, he's just sad because he found out he was adopted and because he got tired of living in Thor's shadow... sorry I digressed... sort of...

MX2012 - aye, there are a lot of really great teachers, and a lot of really stupid teachers. I've experienced both. In 5th grade (10yrs old) I've had a teacher tell me I was dumb, stupid and shouldn't even try because I'll never succeed in anything I do because I was ADD, My freshman English teacher would never try to help me if I had questions, she refused to adapt her teaching style to meet the accommodations that were required for me. But I've also had some fabulous teachers. My sophomore English teacher stayed after school with me every day to help me write an essay I was struggling with (we had been introduced to a new writing style called chunk paragraphing and it was confusing me). I got a B and a C in her class. Then I had a math teacher who couldn't speak good English despite living here for 10 years. If I asked for help, she would say in a very thick Vietnamese accent 'you smart girl. you can do it.' but then she'd sit down with the other Vietnamese students and help them while speaking in Vietnamese. I ended up dropping her class and taking it the next year, when I had a fabulous math teacher who had actually quit her job as a family court lawyer because she was sick of seeing kids dropping out of school because they said math was too hard to learn. She understood that everybody had different ways of learning (auditory, visual, tactile, etc) and she would teach to those different ways and then she would help somebody then send that person to help another student with the same problem, then come check to make sure it was taught correctly because she knew that if the student she helped could teach the concept to somebody else with the same problem, then the student she helped would remember the concept easier. Now I get to add this guy to the stupid teacher column. lol

[ADD_Pyrate_Gurl]

I had my first math test today. I was able to use my scientific calculator & I took the test in the testing center with double time. Not sure if I used the full 2 hrs 20 mins. But I was glad to have it, and my trusty handy dandy scientific calculator.

I am so glad that I didn't just give up when my teacher repeatedly tol me 'no'. And I am so greatful for the DRS Office. I think I did pretty good on my test... there was one problem I was totally stumped on how to graph, but I felt pretty confident about all my other answers.