So, at lunch today we had a conversation about math tutoring (yes- we are a little sad), because at some stage or another, we'd all tried it, with varying degrees of success. Now, usually, this conversation would have disappeared from my brain like so many other pieces of non-essential information (eg. that guy's name from the weekend....), except for the fact that, as I sit here now, in the maths lab, someone behind me is tutoring a dumb first year.
It's funny just listening to the tutor
-he is speaking reeeeeaaaaalllllllyyyy ssslllllooooowwwwllllyyyy
-he is enunciating every word
-he is saying things like "you're mixing up the inverse of a function with the reciprocal of the function" (which is pretty dumb) (And the student is nodding like "I'm pretending to know what 'reciprocal' means...")
And then I thought- I hate tutoring maths. The damn little brats won't just believe what they're taught. Like they'd be interested in a real proof of the shit they do anyway.
At least some of us have had some fun tutoring maths. That's one for the team at least.