Celebs and Math

This is from a celebrity website contactmusic.com. The only thing funnier than celebrites not being able to help their very young kids with math is the fact that the writer of the article can't seem to write a paragraph with more than one sentence.

Ashton Kutcher has revealed he helps his stepdaughter Tallulah with her maths homework.

Ashton Kutcher has swapped acting for maths lessons.

The 31-year-old actor has been struggling to relearn algebra so he can help his wife Demi Moore's 15-year-old daughter Tallulah with her homework.

Writing on his Twitter webpage, the 'Spread' star said: 'Sometimes I think the only reason I took math is so I could help my kids take math.

'Assisting on some 10th grade math home work. BTW the absolute value of -4 is indeed 4. Now solving f(x)=-3x-4 when x<2. good times (sic).' Ashton isn't the only celebrity to struggle with their children's mathematics homework.

Soccer player David Beckham - who has three children, Brooklyn, 10, Romeo, seven, and four-year-old Cruz, with former Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham - has previously admitted he is unable complete his sons' schoolwork.

He said: 'Their homework is so hard these days. I sat down with Brooklyn the other day - and I was like, 'Victoria, maybe you should do the homework tonight'.'"

(Good) Student Humour

A student of another math teacher would bring apple juice in a Nalgene bottle every day. Most kids just bring in water, but hers obviously looks a little difference.

One day the teacher asked her if she had a doctors appointment after school that day, so the joke for the rest of the year was that she was carrying around something else besides apple juice. There were jokes like, "your second hour teacher wouldn't let you go the the restroom?" and such.

At the end of the school year the student gave the teacher his own bottle filled with apple juice as a gift. But the great part was that she had warmed it up in the microwave first...that's clever stuff.

Funny

I'm never sure if these things are genuine, but I thought that it was pretty funny.

Another good "overheard" from today

My parents? Yeah, right. I give my parents time-outs.
I love these kids.

Honors Level or Remedial Level Student?

Where would you hear something like this?

I was going over scatter plots with my students from last night's homework, and I was telling them that they will make another one today with wages of both females and males for the variables. One student says,
A good paying job for a man would be a truck driver or something like that and a good paying job for a woman would be a stripper or something.
You know how you want to laugh at a kid but you can't because you're afraid that you would hurt their feelings? You probably do, but if not, this would be one of those times.