The types of students you deal with as a private tutor
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Another ex-tutor here and this so incredibly accurate. You're only missing the genuinely sweet, hardworking B student trying their best whose perfectionist parents are slowly giving them a complex
Me, but I also have shitty organizational skills and don’t know how to study 💀 not all that sweet but I’m trying 👍
This. Its so heartbreaking you almost want to scream at their parents “can you just give him a fuckin break?”
"Why be 2nd in class when you can be 1st?" Has haunted every single action I perform. Perfection is the only acceptable form of existence and anything less is not 100% of your effort. As long as you try your hardest is all that matters, but if its not an A+ you didn't try as hard as possible. The paradox of human perfection.
@@mattostovitz1098 same situation with me. I'm objectively a "genius" or whatever the fuck so people always expected me to do the best and anything else was unacceptable. I got so fed up with it I just gave up in 6th grade and did so poorly for 3 years that everyone just gave up. honestly fuck everyone for putting that pressure on me and im glad I did what I did cuz now I'm graduated and using my intellect to be happy for myself instead of other people
@@mattostovitz1098 damn that sucks. My parents were always happy with me if I it looked like I tried a decent amount. I never gave it my best because I think life is more important than 100% effort into school. As well as the fact that me going 80% was more than enough to get me into my local university.
That student who shouldn’t have made it this far is WAY too accurate
I don't even remember how many times I have thought to myself "how did this individual finish middleschool, let alone highschool"
Not a private tutor, but I'm currently at Uni and thinking the same thing about someone.
@@nafrost2787 having worked as a math tutor at my university i can definitely agree with that statement. There were times I would help break down the problem to be simple and they still wouldn't understand what to do when it was at middle school level at that point lol.
I especially hated when the sports students would come near exam time, and pretty much ask to be tutored from the very beginning of what is before the exams subject, because they didn't understand any class material nor devoted any time to studying till then.
Read at leisure, below is more of a story than a simple comment, lol.
I went to a high school like this, my second high school when my family moved cities. It was a cliche, rough inner-city school (first time ever having to go through a metal detector and having security go through my belongings each day...). A lot of the students were just...bad. I don't know, not sure if that's fair. Between dysfunctional homes, homes where the parents never advanced much themselves and haven't become the thing they want their child to be to inspire hope, poverty, violence and gangs...the stress comes out as inattentiveness or disruptive in class. Not excusing it though as it ticked me the hell off as well as a student wanting to learn.
I would end up losing about four teachers that year, most being very nice, first year teachers. First one was the art teacher, who was experienced, but quit over repeated homophobic comments, which seriously pissed me off. The man knew his stuff and I'm terrible at art but was looking forward to his tutelage. We got a very sweet substitute (who didn't know about art, she just pretty much babysat us) but then she got in a car accident and the role was never filled. I passed that hour usually in the library few others entered.
Second to leave was my math teacher, whom rumor said she tried to break up a classroom fight and was hit with a chair, putting her in the hospital...and she quit. Same math class ended up losing the replacement teacher when he spent more time on the phone calling up various women rather than teaching (his crowning moment being when he said he felt "god" had put more women than men on Earth for men to be with more than one woman. I mean, if you're polyamorous, I suppose that's alright, but consent needs to be had between all parties to agree to that arrangement, otherwise, you're just a cheating piece of shit...which he was 🙄 . And class isn't the place to be arranging booty calls!)
And last teacher was for Journalism, which my prior school didn't have a class for and I was really interested in learning about. But he would spend more time having to constantly tell people to stop talking, and someone had the fucking audacity to report him for not teaching when he had enough and just sat down. But the principal knew this school had some awful students and I'm certain he quit as opposed to being fired.
While we did eventually get a third and final Algebra teacher who stayed on until the end of the year (after going months each time with no teacher), the art and journalism spots were never filled. We had a sub and then my schedule was changed altogether to remove it and take on something else.
There was almost a fifth teacher who left. Our English teacher tested our reading level at the start of the year. During a frequent moment of people also talking constantly, she yelled that nobody had any right (aside from myself) to not be paying attention as everyone else was reading on a 6th grade level. She actually did quit temporarily but someone in class managed to coax her back. My 3.2 GPA was the highest of my year, making me the valedictorian (I refuse to see myself as one and do not have that written on my resume). Of 150-ish seniors...52 of us passed. All who gave a speech, including myself, gave our biggest thanks to the English teacher who didn't give up.
But I hold zero faults to those who did. That school was horrible. Now it's updated its name to be a college prep school but unless they're being selective on who can apply, all they did is slap on a new coat of paint on a shit sandwich.
Some schools prioritize the projects that students have to submit, so the students usually end up not caring much for exams as they can pass the school year by submitting the projects the teachers assigned anyway, that's how highschool students who can barely even read a sentence exists, heck, thats how I, someone so fucking dumb at math that a 6th grader could laugh at me, got to highshool
“Good job on the units” was extremely funny
Hilarious, 100% agree, 100 laughs that is, laughs is the unit.............I'm not good at math.
@@chrisjohnson3967 🥴
Physics in a nutshell
I feel so bad for “the ones who shouldn’t have made it this far.” Because there’s obviously been teachers who have totally ignored them all throughout their schooling, so now their parents need to hire private tutors
yeah i'm just lift my hand slowly over here cuz that shit hit hard. being personally disliked by teachers for being autistic didnt help too
Ultimately you should rely on your own education, should someone be there for you in the early stages yeah, but that aint always the case and having your own backup net is amazing.
Well, i was once in this grup simply because, my classmates were a part of "we have a tutor so we are bored on lessons" and were not letting the teacher do even 10 minutes of lesson.
P.S. it was english classes and i am a polish citizen.
Not necessarily at all
@@annaagapova3583 What do you mean?
Oh boy. "The one with insane parents." Yep, that was my mother. She pulled me out of school because the math teacher was teaching us exponents. My mother had never seen them before, so she concluded it was all a sham and that I should have better education. Began homeschooling me where she basically had me read from the book and teach myself while she mowed grass. I am very lucky to have not grown up dumb as shit. Became a programmer.
wtf
Unlucky
What?
Lol the funniest part is she probably just doesn’t remember exponents 😂😂😂😂
That's actually insane 😳
You know what's worse than having one of these students per hour you're tutoring?
Having all these students in one class for two hours at once.
The moment I started tutoring I instantly gained so much respect for teachers. It’s clearly such a hard job.
@@captainsnake8515 Abso-friggen-lutely. Likewise.
What's annoying about a smart kid lol
(as long as they aren't trying to insult others' intelligence)
@@user_2793 in a group setting, they like to show off their intelligence. So when you want to teach someone who isn't quite getting it, they pipe in with an answer and the struggling student feels foolish because they cannot solve a problem this other person solves easily. Bad for motivation, especially when they interrupt. And of course, this one person feels bored because they are not challenged, but as a tutor you need to go slow for all the others who are struggling in certain areas.
@@TheDunnDusted aren't they also typically unmotivated (technically not socially motivated, as motivation is not just being persistent at everything) themself? now I want to see how much a classroom full of smart people can ruin a teachers or tutors day.
As someone who has to tutor people in math, I can confirm the 0x5 part is 110% accurate.
Yep. That sinking feeling in your stomach like no…it can’t be true…surely they’re about to laugh and say “brain fart!”…… but they don’t
You are lying right? that cant be true... i don't want to believe it
@@abigairey9543 Bro I have seen things in classrooms that I cannot repeat because it would give everyone nightmares. Worst part is, they don't even realize that this is the bare minimum they should know. They act entitled for some reason because they got into a college without ever knowing that 3x3 is not 6.
@@abigairey9543 I can confirm it is true. I once had an A Level student who spent about 10 minutes calculating something like 1-0+1-1+1,getting it wrong 2 or 3 times before getting the right answer.
When I tutored at university I had a student not able to compute 0.1 + 0.9. They anxiously tried to input it into a calculator... then confidently told me the answer was 0.8. I politely told them to try again while burying my my agitation deep within my soul. Then, they showed me the calculator, which read out 0.7. At that point I couldn't hold it in. I got out of my seat, gave them a pat on the back, excused myself to the bathroom. Instead of the bathroom, I marched far from the campus, into the university parking lot, and screamed at the sun for an embarrassingly long while :]
You missed the student who skipped every class the entire semester and shows up the day before their final to learn everything in the 1-2 hours they signed up for tutoring. Sometimes failure is a more effective tutor.. (College Tutor)
I remember sitting with my supervisor as she explained “you are going to fail this test however we are still going to have this tutor(me) to help you study in the hope that you come back next semester for tutoring”
@@Dino14345 basically. The students I was tutoring realized they weren't going to pass the final when I was listing off concepts to go over and kept getting closer and closer to the beginning of the semester. When they realized they didn't know anything, they were like, you know what, we're going to fail anyways and left early
Reminds me of the ones I got for essays in college.
Student: I need to write an essay on *random subject/event/person/concept*
Me: OK, when's the essay due?
Student: *Looks at phone* 10 minutes.
Supervisor: Do what you can.
@@RooftopRose079 that sounds truly horrendous. I wonder if students like these who turn to tutoring are expecting miracles to happen when they've got to know they are beyond late enough to salvage the grade
Oh that’s me
Sadly, I am the student of the “the ones who shouldn’t have made it this far.” I've been in so many situations where I was the only one who got the weakest grade, stuff made me tear up a few times when I was younger. But more importantly, I feel embarrassed and generally bad for the people who teach me Math. Tho, there was one tutor, just a few years older than me, she was amazing at math, and always encourage me, "as long your doing best, I'm proud of you" Man, such a small thing with such huge impact for me.
Same thing happens with me but i already got so depressed about it that i don't care about the teacher saying that i can't draw a circle as good as his anymore
And i just do the work i am asked to do then i go back to thinking about things i like.
OP, your English is excellent, remember that you have strengths even if you have weaknesses. :)
You seem to be a hard working person so, I'm sure when you have discovered your excellence, you can train it well and succeed. Fighting!! No one is good at nothing. Also, that is a very thoughtful teacher. My teacher would be annoyed when I did something wrong and thinks that everyone should be as smart as the smartest student in the class. Anyways best wishes for you and your teacher.
Same, my teachers either show too much expectations of me and too much disappointment. Literally shakes me and it has effected me to the point that I can't do basic tasks bcz I get paralyzed with fear.
Their judgements has restricted me to not make a move unless it's perfect. So painful bcz I have missed out on opportunities where I could have made friends or learned awesome skills.
However now I m growing out of those comments and learning to love what I do. Guys there is light at the end of the road.
You forgot the student who has serious math anxiety and has a full blown panic attack whenever they're even slightly pressured or confused.
Me me me me
@@swee_zaidelol same 😁
VINDICATION!! I'M FREEEEEEEeeeeeeee
That's me. A few times, I wrote with a red pen all lesson long because I imagined it was blood. That's how I felt in high school math class. Genuine trauma 🤣
Why the f*ck am I able to differentiate but not solve simple logic problems😭😭😭 when I'm not able to solve the problems my tutor gives me I explode
As a Chinese-speaking Eng literature tutor I can tell you the psycho parent + kid that absolutely doesn’t need tutoring is one of the most horrifying combination. I’ve seen a 5th grade who has more vocab than me and uses semicolons correctly. And his parent thinks he’s behind because he hasn’t started learning essay-writing 2 years in advance.
I always wonder how much of this is the Gaokao scaring the crap outta parents. I've talked with some of my Chinese professors about it and that thing is terrifying...
@@Madwonk It’s the one thing that decides one’s entire future in China. University entrance is almost purely based on Gaokao. Many job offers are only given to prestigious university graduates. People literally judge your value on which University you went to. Bad/no University = instantly inferior. I’m not exaggerating. Now imagine the sheer number of students competing each year for the few top universities in such a colossal country. High schools become literal grind machines. I can confidently say that my year 7 in China was more stressful than my year 12 in Australia.
@@Tarthoc holy smokes i never knew about this. Yeah i had a professor from india and he went through an intense high school(or i guess pre-uni eductation). He was doing physics and thermodynamics in high school and had to do these intense exams. Im not sure if its the same in india or if it was just the specific school he went to.
@@drewdawg4203 same in India
The worst part is that some of these genius kids don't even realize how great they are because their parents make them feel like it's the bare minimum
As someone planning to take up volunteer math tutoring this is terrifying. Thanks Zach.
Its not that bad. It depends who is seeking the tutoring. My experience is if the tutoring is sought by the student, it usually goes well. If its sought by the parent, avoid.
Don't volunteer. Get paid.
If you can do from physics, much more people tutor math than physics. And people are very different sometimes I got people who were listening and wanted to learn
@@brawdys yeah, people who want to learn are much easier to teach to than people who don't. I'd take a donkey willing over someone who's smart but doesn't care about learning.
Also make sure that if they are unsure they ask and don't try to force through.
Though you might end up having to be a therapist trying to undo 20 years of parents and the school system not helping the kid be autonomous by asking help when stuck and instead throw the baby in the pool till it swims.
I tutored in college and I can vouch for the Not prepared / how did they make it this far lol.
As DWB stated it's usually not that bad. In my experience it is only terrible when it is around the week of the exam where a few students ( usually the sport jocks) come in and ask to be tutored basically from the very beginning
Me: what don't you understand so we can review it
Them: this part
Me: to understand that part you need to know how to do that thing. Once you got that...
Them: yeah I don't know how to do that thing either
Me thoughts: that was literally this months entire class *sigh*.
And then their is occasionally the person who can't do simple arithmetic once you break down the question for them and hope they solve it lol.
The screaming dysfunctional family is terrifying 😂 At least the student actually pretended to be happy to see the tutor though
Of course he's happy he gets to see a actual father figure
@@idiotgaming6376 veeeeery weird comment....
I was tutoring this kid once who whenever I didn't see him at the table when I walked in, this exact situation would happen.
Omg, they were the best part! “Did the B stand for you Being dumb as f@&k?!”
Gods, I was the kid who argued with his parents. I had mostly good grades, but my family is feisty, and hopefully not too dysfunctional.
With undiagnosed dyscalculia and ordinal synesthesia I was definitely the one who math tutors wondered how I got so far in school.
Fr I don't even know my times tables except if it's 11, 1 or 10
I’m really bad at mental math, but I’m really good at math in school as long as I have a calculator
I always had problems with mental gymnastics at math. All types of questions like "timmy bikes to school how much time does it take if..." were always my problem. I had this tutor that wasnt very patient with me and he got irritated very quickly when i couldnt understand his explanation. Im very scared of nervous people or just screaming because i had an abusive father so those lessons only made me nervous and when im nervous i cant think. Best thing is the dude had only positive opinions from previous students.
Never tried tutors again.
@@michelleobamafootcream9292 this is me. I always got As in anything math related. but don't ask me to mental math crap.
@@ggundercover3681 I feel like I'm the opposite; like im not bad at calculator maths but I prefer mental stuff
I used to work as a math tutor at my university’s peer tutoring center and this made me soooooo glad I didn’t have to deal with parents.
I’d say the main types of students I had were:
1) The one who doesn’t show up
2) The bright student with a dumb professor
3) The one who’s clearly stoned
4) The one who thinks you’re their advisor
5) The regular who is always prepared (my favorite)
6) The regular who is never prepared (my least favorite)
1, 3 and 6 are often the same lmao
When I did college I also had 7) the student who signed up for your session thinking you'd help them in a different class/subject than the ones you offer
@@slithra227 oh yeah I had a kid come in for economics help, surprisingly I was able to help since his issue was with using an equation that was provided, but I don’t know shit about economics.
@@slithra227 My tutoring profile explicitly states that I have experience in Unreal Engine and C++ and yet I get requests about Unity and programming languages that aren't C++. I've also had requests for HTML and CSS even though web languages are not mentioned in my profile
@@thomasjensen5042 mine was exchange students coming in thinking I worked in English as a second language (I taught public speaking as one of my subjects)
How about the one with the rich parents from another country who got their kid admitted to this top 20 graduate business school because they were willing to pay full price and probably know a Senator or State department aide, but the kid should not have got this far at all, and also argues with his girlfriend loudly in the hall before he comes into your office, then tells you omg he's discovered this amazing concept in finance called present value (that he literally should have learned in high school econ). Oddly specific experience I know, but trust me more common than you think.
You alright man 💀
Frighteningly specific there
VERY SPECIFIC
I know exactly whatchu talkin about.
That is very specific. Bad day?
“So what are we learning?”
“Math.”
“NO FUCKING SHIT.”
I think there was an x or sum☠️
NO FUCKING SHIT we watched the same video??!
@@chromiyum6849 your remarks are unoriginal and stupid.
No shit Sherlock.
I'm not kidding that I encountered this type of shit before.
As a former tutor this brought back some memories. Also, a lot of overlap here with being in charge of student interns.
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@@knobility5286 and you just had to ruin it huh
I did private tutoring. This was way too accurate especially about the parents. The only thing missing was those parents who reach out a week before finals saying that if their kid doesn’t make an A they’ll fail the class, so they expect you to magically teach their kid the whole class in a span of a week. And if their kid doesn’t get an A, they’ll want a refund for being “scammed”
As a biology professor I see this all the time, though the issue usually stems from the students not having learned the prior material. They always remember what the mitochondria does though….to my chagrin.
It's the powerhouse
@@064razor of the cell
Meme power
holy shit that makes a ton of sense now
it produces ATP!
No idea what my old maths tutor thought of me, but i was definitely the anxious type. Terrified of doing anything wrong, or embarrassing myself by getting the answers wrong lmao
Crazy how far I’ve come, currently studying A level maths and kind of enjoying it, aiming for an A*, and banking on it to have a shot at Cambridge! If i make it in, it’ll be partially thanks to my old tutor
(Not that I will get in, but it’s worth a try if if got the grades)
How’s the Cambridge stuff fairing? Remember that for all university colleges like Cambridge they tend to look more for things that you’ve done ‘extra’ like Global Perspectives rather than grades so dw about it too much! (Grades definitely set a good example though 😂)
University maths is far more abstract and rigorous than A level, not just harder. Try to find someone to talk to who can give you a good idea of what it is like. Great to push yourself, just try to make sure what you aim at matches your interests.
Reminds me of my friend who went around telling all the maths teachers how much she hated the subject when we were in year 8.
She got into Cambridge for maths in summer (trinity college)
Now if riemann's hypothesis is true we gotta give half of the money to Zach
technically it just hasn't been rigorously proven yet. it has been "verified" that all the zeta primes lie on the critical line with real part 1/2 and many theories even assume the hypothesis being true
edit: i thought of a good analogy for it, riemann hypothesis is currently in a position like fermat's last theorem was, the numbers had been computed and no counter example had been found, but it took centuries, galois theory and taniyama-shimura before it was proved. similarly maybe we have to still look around for a bridge between complex analysis and number theory which would help us prove Riemann
@@ingenuity23 We haven't verified that "all" of them lie there, just the ones we found so far. We could find a new one outside in the future, you never know.
But it has been rigorously proven especially when you take the drag coefficient of alpha squared and factor in omega gamma. After that many theories become fact as the information provided fills the gaps in the critical 5:x(475)/896)>703A{35-465} equation.
@@darthvaydor6716 bro stop talking bs you aren’t smart, no one cares 8 yr old copied off internet
@@darthvaydor6716 it can not have been proven, or the problem would be solved. Right now it's unsolved.
I had a student who literally didn’t know what a 90 degree rotation was. It wasn’t like she couldn’t do the calculation, she just physically didn’t know how much a 90 degree rotation was. The funny part was that she was normally pretty good at math.
Maybe they were only fluent in radians?
@@Spyblox007 pi/2
@@Spyblox007 yeah they just forgot to switch their brains to degree mode
@@mrocto329 that’s why it’s essential to emmerse your students in both using degrees when measuring angular momenta and radians for pretty much every other measurement including frequencies, phase shifts, rotational dampers, and the 2 dimensional angular space inhabiting the 2-sphere. Once they understand that time is the only context where degrees are useful it’ll be natural for them to convert between the 2 by just reading a clock.
@@Spyblox007 she*
You forgot the kid who just arrived in the US and can’t speak or understand you so you have to speak with him using math.
That's what I really like about math. Can read it in any language
@@yds6268 If you already understand the math that seems fine. But how do you convey new concepts if you don't speak the same language?
@@danielsjohnson proofs
@@TheBestcommentor if you can learn entirely by just reading proofs you do not need a tutor lol. also you are a fucking robot.
@@danielsjohnson I think it depends on the concept you're trying to teach. I could imagine some being easy than others just based on what could realistically be communicated through diagrams and such
Here is the answer to the question 3:00
Coefficient of Friction (μ): The value of 0.3 will primarily affect the traction of the bike on the surface, influencing acceleration and maximum speed. This coefficient applies regardless of the shape of the tires, but in a real-world scenario, the shape of the tires (triangular and heptagonal) would create a highly irregular and impractical ride, leading to inefficiencies in power transfer and likely reducing speed significantly. For simplicity, we'll overlook the detailed dynamics these shapes would cause and assume a uniform circular tire model for calculations.
Distance from a Black Hole: Being 923 km away from the event horizon of a black hole introduces a fascinating context but without specifying the mass of the black hole, it's challenging to calculate the gravitational effects accurately. Nevertheless, the gravitational influence at such a distance, unless it's an extremely massive black hole, might not be vastly different from being in a low-gravity environment for the purposes of our simplified model. We'll proceed without considering relativistic effects or significant gravitational anomalies, focusing instead on the mechanics of biking.
Leg Strength Disparity: Having one leg π times stronger than the other would create a highly asymmetrical pedaling force. In a realistic scenario, this would lead to inefficient biking, potentially causing the bike to veer or requiring Bob to adjust his balance constantly. However, for the sake of calculation, we'll consider that Bob can still maintain an average effective force on the bike pedals, albeit with an unusual rhythm.
Rainbow Road from Mario Kart: The length of Rainbow Road varies across different Mario Kart versions, but for the sake of a baseline calculation, let's assume a version of the track that's approximately 2 km long. The track is known for its lack of guardrails, sharp turns, and jumps, factors which in a real-world scenario would significantly affect speed and safety. However, we'll abstract from these details and focus on average speed.
Given these considerations, let's make a very simplified calculation. Assuming Bob can maintain an average speed, the key factor would be the power he can exert through pedaling. The friction and tire shape would primarily affect acceleration phases, but without detailed physics simulations, we'll approximate using average biking speeds.
Typical biking speeds range from 15-25 km/h on flat terrain for casual to moderately fit individuals. Given Bob's unique circumstances (including the leg strength disparity and the highly unconventional bike design), maintaining an average speed at the lower end of this spectrum would be optimistic.
Let's calculate the time it would take Bob to complete a 2 km track at an average speed of 15 km/h, ignoring the additional complexities introduced by the scenario's unique factors.
Under the simplified assumptions, it would take Bob approximately 480 seconds, or 8 minutes, to complete the Rainbow Road track at an average speed of 15 km/h. This calculation doesn't take into account the numerous complexities and unusual conditions of your scenario, but it provides a baseline estimate based on conventional biking speeds and a simplified approach to the physics involved.
And they said maths doesn't have real world applications
This is how physicists and engineers solve problems 😂 spherical cows go!
(I'm speaking as someone who's taken many many physics classes myself)
What
ChatGPT
The 1:50 is so real. Especially if you tutor algebra 1. I genuinely cannot fathom how high schoolers can’t do multiplication and addition.
I HAVE A LEARNING DISABILITY 🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️
As someone doing calculus, I can’t do that fucking shit either bro🙏😭
@MikeyEatAcid I ALSO HAVE DYSCALCULIA 😭😭😭 it's really frustrating because I know how it works but every time I try to comprehend it in my mind it just falls through and I forget!!!! I can memorise bio units in an hour I just can't do numbers !!!
I died at the triangular wheels problem
That's the kinda thing that sets you up for a government job.
That would be a genuinely good calc 2 problem. Find out how fast you would go on triangular wheels assuming you were given the angular rotation speed and no slip.
You would have to do a path integral for the points of the triangle and get an average speed. But this is like a bonus problem.
@@boggless2771 I think we found the government employee
@@boggless2771 ur speaking bullshit and making us believe these are words right
@@boggless2771 that's actually quite interesting but idk how to deal with the heptagonal wheel with the triangular wheel simultaneously
As a private tutor this is the most accurate shit I've ever seen!
I was tutored once and please tell me there is another type who just learns? Because otherwise I am worried as to which one I was
@@rory8182 There is, but it's quite rare :D
@@prod.gimmetheaux4841 that response does not fill me with hope
@@rory8182 Don't worry, There could be a whole video about types of private tutors... And I am sure I would be featured in it! ;D
@@rory8182 i mean, given the amount of resources you can find on the internet on your own, the actually curious ones wouldn't need a tutor
The arguing family is 100% accurate.
For the first one, I think there's a disconnect from expectations of parents towards traditional trained tutors, which is to advance the child in something they are good at, and the reality of most tutors today being students or recent graduates, who are only helping with hings the kids are not good at, whether it's homework, teats, vocab study, etc.
Traditional tutors are like a higher level class outside of school 🤔
2:55
This is impossible to solve as the size of the black hole is not given, nor is the version of rainbow road being played.
No solution/infinite solutions🤣
Jesus the fucking helicopter parents man used to get on my nerves. Especially as an online tutor during the pandemic when parents were wfh.
I tutored at a college for a couple years. The college had a GED program in the room next to mine. If I wasn't busy sometimes I would help out the GED students that were having a particularly difficult time. One day this little old lady in a wheelchair came in, and I come to find out she was basically starting her education from square one. She was barely literate, and wanted me to teach her math. When I say square one I mean it. I had to teach her basic addition and subtraction. It really threw me off because I normally taught college level math. It was difficult for her but she got pretty good at it. She had an extremely difficult time with multiplication though, and I can't remember if we even made it to division while I still worked there. I don't know if she ever got her GED or not, but I thought the fact that she still wanted to make a genuine effort in at least attempting to very admirable. One funny side note is apparently I was one of the very few people she was nice and friendly to. I guess with the overwhelming majority of people she was grumpy and short tempered. It really shocked me because I didn't find that out until after having several sessions with her. the GED program teacher who told me about his experiences with her was equally shocked by mine.
that's cool, but what's GED?
@@alihorda Basically the equivalent of a high school diploma for those who couldn't/didn't complete high school.
To have taught somebody like that must have been really special because it shows how potential fulfillment gained through such a pursuit is embedded in the process. As younger students pursue their education sometimes their process is an ends to the means of later life security and success. The angle of justification as to why their time is being spent learning concepts and doing work hinges on a projection of the fears and desires that are to to be potentially realized in their future.
It is cool that you put yourself out there to teach her.
Reading your explanation of her difficulties with math makes me reconsider how I should treat the timeline of my own mathematical difficulties (the stuff I don't get).
I’m not reading that
@@HogriderForLife_ cool
I think you forgot the one who just wants you to give them all the answers :P
Lmao
In my experience that is most students…
I had one online student explicitly state that he just wanted me to do it for him and he would copy it. It's like they put 0 thought into what the industry would be like. I mean seriously, why bother taking classes to get a degree if you're not putting 100% of effort into every class, especially because classes aren't cheap
Logical problems like 0 * 5 are actually things students with A’s mess up on. A lot of the time schools focus so much on teaching in a way that prioritizes memorization that they don’t learn how to use their brain to piece things together. This is why a lot of kids struggle on word problems but not when they are given the set up straight up. I know a kid with an A who prioritized memory and they would make similar basic mistakes on little things in the equation. Kids aren’t dumb they just weren’t taught how to use the brain they were born with effectively. And of course grades in school are not a good indicator for intelligence.
The ironic thing about your comment is that 0 x whatever-other-number should be one of the easiest things to memorize.
@@crazypeopleonsunday7864 Eh yeah thats kinda obvious but it does go into other areas.
If a person just uses muscle memory, the second they forget something, they might not be able to do it intuitively easily. We all know 3^3=27, but if you forgot your muscle memory, it can take a white to remember what a exponent even is, and to do 3x3x3.
@@crazypeopleonsunday7864 na, because think about it - almost all times-table/multiplication charts skip zero and start from one instead. they might've just never seen a 0x anything multiplication written anywhere before.
This is me, I legitimately struggle on addition and multiplication yet I am learning precalc/calc a year ahead of everyone else. Maths is just memory.
3:19 bro deadass Solved that While Missing multiple variables
At the end of the day theres only 2 types the ones there by there own will and those forced
“How do you have friends? I have a dog that barely likes me, so let’s make it make sense” is something I have literally questioned about too many people too many times
Those are all reasonably accurate. I mainly tutor college students, so I might add a couple of extras.
1. The student who is extremely curious. This student is usually great to work with, since they want to learn the subject. They easily get distracted though and will often ask questions beyond what is needed for the class. If you are not careful, it is easy to accidentally teach ahead or to give this student information beyond what they wanted to cover. (For example, one of my introductory physics students often asked a lot about how problems would change with air resistance, how they would change in a black hole, ect.).
2. The student who never shows up. This student is always desperate for last minute sessions to cram for an upcoming test. Even when you schedule a session on short notice, they always seem to double book themselves or they seem to no call no show.
3. The adult learner/grad student. These students are in difficult classes or are here because they are genuinely curious about the subject (and they aren't worried about their grade). They are like the curious student but they ask questions pertaining to their research or work. They are hard to get a consistent schedule with, since they are usually very busy. After a few sessions, they usually learn enough to get started with a topic, and are able to continue on their own the rest of the way.
4. The student who wants you to do their work for them. These students will happily provide homework problems. When attempting these problems, they will immediately answer every question with "I don't know" or "How do you do it", no matter how simple the question is. When you break a question up into small steps, they will drag their feet every step of the way. They are different from the student who shouldn't be this far in school, since they will not guess or make any attempts to answer the questions or help with the smaller parts, no matter how simple. These students frustrate me the most. Thankfully I have only had one or two students like this in all my years of tutoring.
5. The friendly student. This student will ask about your day and will try to have conversations about things besides tutoring. This isn't to stall. They genuinely care. If you talk to much about social stuff you won't get any work done. If you socialize a little bit at the start or end of a session, the student will usually focus throughout the rest of the session. The best way to tutor these students is to learn about their interests and to relate the math/physics problems back to their interests. For example, one of my students is a musician. When we talked about waves in physics, I brought a guitar and demonstrated harmonics on the guitar strings. They were able to grasp the subject much more quickly afterwards, and we had extra time to talk about music at the end of the session.
6. The student who is too formal. This student doesn't know how formal to be, so they will treat you like a teacher or professor. They will write every message like a formal email. They will dress up in business casual clothes for online tutoring. They will always use titles like "sir" or "Mr. Lastname" when addressing you.
7. The cheater. This student will explicitly ask you to take an online test or to do their homework for them. Some will even offer to pay large amounts of money for you to do so. Usually if you refuse the student will realize you are a tutor, not someone who is cheating for them. Sometimes students will try tricking you into cheating by meeting during an online test or a quiz and having you help with the problems (this is for online tutoring). The times this has happened, I ask them explicitly if they are taking a test currently. Sometimes old tests are provided are practice tests. If I still suspect they are taking a current test and are cheating, I will end the session and reach out to the professor to confirm. I have zero tolerance, since it isn't fair to the other students and I could get in a lot of trouble if I help a student cheat. Don't be this student.
There might be more, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I should add, my current students are great. I stop working with the no call/no shows and cheaters quickly.
this is great stuff for someone such as myself who wants to tutor on the side soon. It seems so daunting at times
@@drewdawg4203 Depending on where you tutor, the trickiest thing is finding students initially. Once you get over the initial hurdle, it becomes a lot easier. The only other advice I have to offer is to have a cancellation policy clearly stated in advance. For less than 24h notice or for no call no shows, I reserve the right to charge for an hour. I don't charge if the student gives a good reason for cancelling or missing, but I also have the policy in place to make sure students show up. Some college students sleep through sessions or forget about them otherwise.
This is so accurate it's like someone's documented my own experience tutoring in college :P
I will add for anyone interested in tutoring, be very careful of the cheater category and I agree with not working with them at all once you realize. I once got accused of telling a student it's okay to plagiarize when I had literally spent half the session telling them why they CAN'T copy someone else's work!
Ooh yay good to know that I (the first one) am usually good to teach lol
@@clarascats1365 lol same
I’m a chemistry tutor and it’s pretty similar. The ones I think you missed:
1. The one who can’t get above a barely-passing grade, no matter how hard they try. They’re the ones who work hard, ask questions and are genuinely sweet students trying their best. But somehow, no matter how much they seem to learn in the lessons, the moment they attempt a test or homework question they’re back to square one.
2. The one who asks good questions. They ask about stuff beyond the syllabus because it just occurred to them and they’re curious, and as a tutor you have to balance answering their questions to encourage their curiosity, against keeping them on the syllabus material so as not to confuse or overcomplicate their revision. Luckily I used to be one of these so I’m pretty good at handling them - and, to be honest, I love working with students like this.
3. The student who knows absolutely nothing about the most basic topics while having a pretty good grasp on some of the really complicated stuff. They’re the ones that make you want to jump out of a window.
would love to see a “types of private tutors”. as a private tutor, i’ve encounters all of these scenarios but have never once responded anything like this 😂
Haha that’s so spot on 😂
Don’t forget about the student who wants to talk about everything except the work lol
When I was explaining a math problem to a fellow student in the last years of highschool I used an imaginary number and she straight up didn't believe me imaginary numbers were a thing, despite dealing with them for a couple of months just a year before that conversation took place.
ouch, i felt that one
Who doesn’t know about eleventeen and thirty-twelve
I mean after all, they are just imaginary.
One of my students kept denying the existence of thrembo, the integer between 6 and 7. Kids these days.
@@subtopewdipie4159 he is talking about iota not these bs english numbers
‘Capital O’ I just fucking can’t 😂😂😂
I remember one time when I was working for my university's IT desk, a student on the phone asked me "is that a capital zero?" when I was reading off their ID number for them
I think i nearly put all my math teachers on the brink on despair, only to be diagnosed with discalculia in my last year of high school 👁️👄👁️
Why do half the people in this comment section say they have discalculia
@@primo4915 it’s really not an uncommon condition so it makes sense
@@primo4915 Because we all needed tutoring in math
@@primo4915 a lot of people who are relating to this video (since it’s about math tutor students) have discalulia and are thus commenting about their experiences with math tutors. So it seems like a disproportionate amount of people with discalculia. In any other video these same people probably wouldn’t bring it up because it would be irrelevant but for this specific video topic it’s relevant
Had to have a tutor for latin and greek when I was like 16-17. I was the kind of student who didn't study cuz I couldn't care less and also I had poor trust in my tutor and teachers in general. I still clearly remember him saying "for next time study this part and ONLY this part" and I studied a bunch of other stuff too cuz I was convinced it was a trap and he was going to ask me a bunch of questions about stuff I didn't remember... what a great time it was
That final quick smile and chipper, "I sure am!" Oof! Feels too close to home.
I propose 23.18 dollars for that paper towel.
To bad i can bring 25.70 to the table
My friend tutored a guy over zoom who was on vacation during during one of their sessions and was just packing up and talking to friends most of the time - didn’t have his notebook. Another time he was in the car with friends, however he did have his notebook. The only reason he was going to tutoring was because he was on a sports team for the school which required students to go to tutoring if their grades were a D or below.
This is insanely accurate. Adapting to these differences when tutoring is half the challenge within itself!
4:57 cool wall
The missing units part is ACCURATE. I was so annoyed because I would’ve gotten really good marks, but I forgot to add the “$”, “cm” or “units”.
i once lost marks for putting .0 instead of .00
@@Gabriel_JudgeofHell nothing unusual about loosing points for incorrect number of sigfigs.
@@nikitademodov3446 wasn't a physics or chem test, sigfigs was never mentioned
@@Gabriel_JudgeofHell Yes. I don't like it either but even in simple maths some units (like angles) are expected to be rounded.
Man, I had a friend who would get the full grade but lost 20% of it just due to the missing units😂
“What’s zero times five?”
Honestly, that’s most of my students and sometimes it takes some willpower to not scream at them (or just, you know, tell them the answer). It takes patience to work with adult college students (as in, haven’t been to school in 10+ years). A lot of patience.
I work as a tutor at my college. I feel your pain. I had one within the last two weeks go something like this:
2x + 1 = 35
2x = 34
x = 17
But once they got to this point, they kept going. I noticed at about the same time that they had "1x = 17" written on their paper, and that they'd just put "17 / 1" into their calculator.
Lost a little bit of hope in humanity that day.
@@ChaosBeing 😬I just had a student who’s come in every day this quarter for pre-college algebra do the same thing…
I’m definitely the incompetent one in math 😭 In high school I would stay an hour after with the teacher, had a private tutor and still barely made a C
I got high grades in other classes but math was just an alien language to me 😅
Bro, sounds like you shouldn't be a tutor.
@@preslavgetov1330 Nah, I’m over exaggerating with my reaction to it, I do have the patience for it. I mean honestly, it’s super cool being able to help these people from all different walks of life and hear their stories, I’ve got one student who’s in his fifties and trying to relearn elementary school level math so he can start cooking classes, he’s already got a food truck and he loves fixing up old cars. I’ve got another student who’s an Iraq refugee, English is her second language, and she’s this adorable older woman who always needs the concepts explained to her at least five times to understand them, but she’s so cute. I’ve got another student who’s a hairdresser whose hands have been failing her recently so she’s going back to school for the first time in ten years to switch professions. I really do love helping these people and I have so much respect for them having the determination and the motivation to start up school again, it can just be a little bewildering at times how something that seems so simple to me can be so completely above their understanding.
My intro chemistry class in college had an exam question where we had to divide two numbers with the same base but different exponents (without a calculator). If you're only marginally smooth-brained, you'd realize that all you have to do is subtract the exponents and you're done. The professors ended up giving everyone the points for that question because the majority didn't know how to do the calculation (and some people wrote ERROR because that's what the calculator said when attempting it).
I can only imagine what tutors go through.
Sounds about right.
Index laws often seem to slip through the cracks when it comes to education.
Sometimes I daydream about becoming a teacher, but I'm afraid to face the reality of just how dumb a lot of people can be.
@@buttermilkkitty it’s hardly a “law,” the idea is perfectly understandable
@@absolutezero6190 ??? They’re called Index Laws, that’s their name. It doesn’t have anything to do with the clarity of the concept.
5:23 "are you ready for some math?" "No i need therapy"
Currently employed as a tutor. Love the job but this is TOO accurate. Only student missing are the sweet hearts who are pretty average but the most non-irritating people to deal with. These ones come with a drawing made for you or something and always remain respectful because they know you're the boss. Makes me have ten times more patience when I'm trying to teach them.
The one who should not have gotten this far in school is basically me. My tutor had a very rough time. I think she probably wanted to kill me at some point.
Well did you pass?
Cause thats what matters
That family fighting hit a little too close to home for me. It's not that I'm not smart, I just didn't ever really have to try in school. So study habits? What are those? Anyhow, caused a lot of friction between me and my step-father.
Problem was, he also was my teacher.
I never needed to develop learning strategies until I entered class 11. Was a rough ride and continued through college/university
So you were lazy
@@zepar6076 Never said that. I wasn't lazy, I just didn't need to learn them because I did well without.
Hi, I'm the professor that goes off-book. Most of my students enjoy this; it means they pick up interesting facts, anecdotes, a bit of history as to why math is so weird, and sometimes get a laugh. Every once in a while I take a question a little too far. The last one was...three or four years ago. Trigonometry. We'd had countless exercises in figuring out right triangles based on lengths and angles but apparently trying to find the distance between the sun and Venus during maximum elongation is too much for students to see the right triangle inherent in the problem. And no I didn't write the problem like that!
Later in the class I had a word problem about my two nephews fighting over a little red wagon with a rope tied to it. That one redeemed me.
While going of the book dont affect the understanding of topics by confusing students its absolutely fine.
If you're that kid who shouldn't have gotten so far with such massive gaps in your knowledge, please don't be ashamed. It was the job of the adults around you to ensure that didn't happen and they failed you. It doesn't mean you're a bad student or even that you're bad at math! You just need slow, steady remedial work to build a proper foundation. Don't give up on yourself, even if it feels like everyone around you already has. ♥️
"studying is boring, ima goof around all day and not pay attention to class"
"waa the education system failed me"
@@hiredfiredtiredIf someone doesnt know the basics, the education system DID fail them. It should be a teacher's job to keep students that are below the age of 8 engaged in their lesson and learn. I do agree that after primary, some students start losing focus, but even then, it's mainly the teacher's fault that many(not all) young students dont do good. And, if a student finds the basics difficult, then no matter how enjoyable or good a teacher at a high school is, that subject will still be hard and boring for an adult student, andthe cycle continues. Im speaking from personal experience here, thankfully I was able to recover and have been an A* student ever since high school.
@@hewad378a teacher can't possibly teach everyone individually. Some kifs are just not raised well and others a hassel to teach.
@@hiredfiredtired Still the fault of the education system. If the student didn't learn the necessary material, then the system should not let them progress to where they are.
@@albertrichard3659 yeah, thats why i advocate for more liberal use of holding back someone a grade
When I was an exchange student in the US I had to do community service and as part of it I did volunteer tutoring on Spanish (since its my first language) , I helped 2 people, one came from a latino family and actually spoke fluent spanish (although with a strong Caribbean accent), I never knew exactly why he was there and we basically just chatted in Spanish, the other one was a Japanese guy that barely knew how to speak it but already spoke French, Japanese and English, and apparently he had to speak a 4th language decently fluently before finishing high school, but as I understand it was not because of his parents pressure but because of his own will
As a tutor for my school's engineering department, I can confirm every single student listed above exists. The only discrepancy between real life and this video is that none of the students look the same.
EDIT: I didn't see the last two vignettes LOL.
"How do you have friends?"
"My parents can afford you. DUH."
Dude I had students who had teachers that went 'off book' I was teaching these 7th graders how to multiply matrices
Welcome to your first math lesson. Let's start with calculating all three roots of the integral of this quadratic function.
Guilty
I am not that bad at math, but sometimes in tutoring I just forget the most basic concepts of math (because I'm tired mostly). one time we were doing integrals the whole hour, so I had to primitivate a lot. at one point I had to primitivate 4, which is easy as fuck. But my mind just went completely blank. My tutor helped me by saying 'what would you have to differentiate to get 4?' I still had no idea. It took me a few minutes and then he had to tell me the answer.
😂😂 The subtle "holy shit..." here at 2:07 sent me LMAO cause it really put into perspective how clueless the student is
I was the one that should not have gotten that far in school except I have a learning disorder, autism, adhd, distracted by bullys, and my struggle to see a math problem and only see numbers half the time. Boy I’m so glad I’m done with school and not able to remember most of the big maths.
I know the feeling. I have autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and nonverbal learning disorder. I was bullied too.
I'm the one who is bad at math, but still tries. One time at my old school, I went afterschool to get help in geometry. My teacher had a couple of the smarter students come in to help tutor us for volunteer hours (we were required to have 100 of them to graduate) and one of the tutors helped me with what I needed help on. The other had to deal with the girl who had a very loud mental breakdown. When she left, my tutor had mentioned that he was glad to not have had to deal with her. I honestly can't agree more- I have mental breakdowns and anxiety attacks myself, but I'm able to hide it and calm myself down because I hate causing a scene in public.
sadly the educational system and some strict parents put more importance on grades than on mental health. i hope she gets the help she needs! im also bad at math but im working hard to catch up
i had a lot of panic attacks in high school, especially in math class. i can control myself now because obviously no one with anxiety likes causing a scene, but i feel for that poor girl.
@@username8644 Maybe something happened that pushed her over the brink, so to speak? I'm not sure if I've ever experienced an anxiety attack, but at least in my case these kinds of breakdowns usually kind of built up over time or can be summoned at the drop of a hat when very specific things go wrong. In the first case, just imagine that you've had a really bad day. You've been holding yourself together all day, but at this point you're hanging on by a thread. And now, suddenly, you drop a glass of water and it shatters. Usually, you wouldn't cry about that, you'd just clean it up and get a new one, but because this is just the last one in a long line of things to go wrong that day you can't help, but break down into tears because you're not just crying over the glass, but about everything that went wrong that day and possibly even everything that went wrong in your life ever. Does that make sense to you? In the second case, it would be different in the way that the bad emotions/thoughts have been accumulating not over the span of a day, but over a long time. However, since they're connected to a certain topic or certain situations or certain thoughts or whatever, they're usually in the background where you either ignore them or don't even notice them most of the time. In this case, it only takes something like thinking about them or being reminded of them either for too long or when you're already stressed out about something and suddenly you're breaking down, crying and/or hyperventilating, even though you were fine half an hour ago.
This is mostly based on my own experiences because I don't know anything about the girl in question, but I hope this helps you understand why somebody trying to teach her geometry might have been enough to cause her to have an anxiety attack.
I would've absolutely murdered to have had a tutor growing up, lol. I did decent in most subjects, excelled in English and Litetature, and everything came crashing down in math or math-adjacent sciences, like Physics. I used to watch these commercials for something called Sylvan Learning Center and would feel so damn depressed my mom couldn't afford that.
Schools always have to rush things to prepare for the standardized tests at the end of the year and so when I inevitably failed to understand something in class, the next day, something new would be piled on top of the prior lesson and then it would keep going until I had little idea of how to do what were being taught. I always took notes, but it was like looking at Greek. I just wanted someone who could work with me more personally and we could go back to the start of the lesson and walk through things slower so I could grasp it.
As for asking the teacher for clarification...most always had this attitude of "Please, god, I know I asked if anyone had questions but PLEASE don't actually ask me anything!" Math teachers especially always seemed so impatient. Also, they look at your bad grades and think you're a lazy or careless student when that just wasn't true. I was quiet in class, I hardly talked. And like I said, I took notes (though I had bad vision. If I asked to come up front to write things down, there was a general air of annoyance, even from the teacher, or I'd have nowhere to sit and would have to sit on the floor, staring straight up at the wall, which then everything looks like the Star Wars scrolling and what's at the top is hard to read). Always that undercurrent of annoyance from the teacher when needing more time to write. Maybe they should stop putting the visually impaired student(s) at the back of the class, perhaps?
For those who actually had parents who paid for them to be tutored, how terrible to squander such a privileged opportunity...
Same, we could never afford tutoring and I wasn't able to learn math and physics on my own (no problem with all the other subjects). I still became successfull in life but it's the reason I never graduated "high school" (different school system in my country)
Weren't there any volunteer math tutors around? What a shame for you.
@@cend2362 Not that I know of. My school didn't have any and the town I lived in was on the smaller side.
Most of the learning centers are scams. They hire random tutors they pay 6 dollars an hour, then charge you like 50 dollars an hour.
@@NestedQuantifier I'm sure there are some but I wouldn't say most. Given the passionate comments here, I'd say there are loads of those who want to truly offer great assistance (even at learning centers), they just have awful clients.
Currently an English tutor here and all of these are absolutely accurate. One thing I might add is the new addition specifically for online classes:
The ghost - The student(s) who are present but never respond. They just log in to the class and leave their laptops running or fall asleep. This has got to be the most frustrating to teach.
@@braynaguilar8567 I have two students who are like that too. My company’s policy is to inform the parents but they don’t care about it at all. It makes me wonder why they’re just throwing away money for their kids who aren’t even participating 🤷🏻♀️
1:48 "Student who shouldn't have made it this far" I know this is blown out of proportion for comedic effect but as someone who only got diagnosed with dyscalculia at 23 there's some kind of severe problem in the global school system :/
I have dyscalculia too. I was diagnosed in January of this year (2022)
Abt to try and get diagnosed and I feel like crying ever time I meet the tutor
I don't think that shooullddd impair your ability to remember anything times 0 is 0 though? Maybe I'm taking this too literally (autism + dyscalculia is a fun combo I'll tell you what) but idk I don't resonate much with that example because it's less math and more memory related. I just remember anything times 0 is 0. Factoring is where I mess up the most
@@lambybunny7173 personally no trouble remembering simple things like that I just remember struggling to memorize the multiplying table (still forget some aspects of it) and especially struggling to memorize math formulas for algebra.
Currently looking into if I might have ADHD on top of that because I have an executive dysfunction so that might factor in. That's just my personal experience.
I apologize if some of the terminologies are wrong english is not my first language and I don't use mathematic terms in my day to day life currently.
@@lambybunny7173 I got diagnosed with it my last year in college. How I made it that far failing literally every math class on the way is BAFFLING to me. It was only with a prof who was willing to give me extra time and read problems out to me that I got an A in a math class. Numbers confuse my brain and make it so I can't read right, before I knew that I wasn't able to do math at all. Now I can work around it well enough to tutor elementary math! But before that prof sat me down and explained to me what she saw I never realized that I just. Even now I can't do anything more complicated than pre-algebra.
What about the tutor that solves the hw questions for the student that barely tries.
As long as I get paid, I'll do a students homework and take my sweet time doing it lol that's their ethical dilemma not mine
Brought back some memories, especially the kids talking to their parents.
Here's another one: The one with the pet that distracts during the lesson. E.g. a cat uses the cat box mid lesson. 😆
As a tutor, this was extremely relatable.
I shouldn't have gotten through school lmao. Some math things literally could not compute in my mind. No matter how you would explain it, my brain could not make it click.
As a maths tutor for 6 years, I’ve had all of these, very accurate 😂 the only one I’d add is the student who says “yeah yeah I get it” and then can’t even do the first part of a problem right like come on just tell me if you don’t understand pleeaassee 🙏
4:41 actually that would be a pretty normal thing for parents to do with each other
"The one who should not have gotten this far" that works in my company as well I had one women 60 years old in Finance she have litterly never used excel ever. How is that even possible?
An other women she didn't know how to restart her computer. An old guy he didn't know how to close down a browser window.... I'm like press the X upper right... these people have good pay.
In my experience there is exactly one type of student. That student is the, “the exam is in two days and I haven’t even bought the text book yet” student.
I once had a student who was in a Calculus 1 course in uni and he genuinely had never heard of the quadratic formula… I wrote the formula down and he said he’s never seen it before. A *calculus* student
*Just a reminder to some fellow students and educators!* Typically the behaviors of the second student is an indication of issues outside of academics, usually a large indicator of not-the-best to poor mental health conditions. While it can be incredibly frustrating at times, keeping this in mind to help better approach them both as a student and as a human being can be incredibly encouraging and helpful for them/us! ♡
Also, yes, I understand this video is just a silly bit! :)
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Haha! Great video. I’m a math tutor and this is spot on. The craziest one for me was the kid who came to his tutoring sessions high several times. I learned that he smoked to relieve the jitters he got from his ADD medication. I didn’t know what to do with that.
I'm never going back to maths tutoring. Started hating it the moment I realised students just don't care
I mean to be fair, they don’t have much of a reason to care. Like at least 90% of people will just never have to use any of the math they learn past 9th grade outside of school.
@@CanaanPoE keep dreaming
I mean, wtf did you expect. Seriously
@@CanaanPoE it's important for keeping up your basic mathematical literacy that you'll require in most office jobs. And being good at stem subjects shows employers you're a fast learner and have a good work ethic
@canaan I would say 10th but yeah I agree
I remember my parents hiring a private tutor for me in college because I kept failing my math classes (though the very first time our math teacher was very incompetent). I spent most of my time doing the exercices that I barely did because I was spending most of my time doing my programming homeworks so with a private tutor I was forced to spend more time on math and I had someone to explain to me. In college, if you want to be good at math, you need to do all the exercices the teacher gives because you can't have a sheet to remember your formulas compared to high school.
I have a Math degree and we literally could bring our books to class for the exams. You either know how to do it or you don't and learning during the hour test isn't gonna help you much.
But you do have to do all the exercises because the teacher isn't going to go over everything that will be on the test.
Were I went being told open your book was a death sentence, that was going to be a 4 h exam and making a mistake in any calculation meant that you wouldn't finish the exam on time
@@erskisdam Our teachers had the philosophy that any real world problem you would have access to your book, so the only reason you would be denied it is to provide a simple hoop to jump through and they weren't teaching dolphins.
> exercices
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I failed Calc 2 because the book was useless and the teacher would spend every class going over a problem on the board that "has nothing to do with the homework but whatever." The two kids in class who could program calculators in there sleep were rapt, the rest of us were literally asleep. I never even thought about trying to get help from a tutor, because concepts like that hadn't really been taught to me (I was homeschooled for most of my regular school education) and I'd basically been brainwashed into the idea that I Should Be Able To Do It Myself.
I appreciate how you turn the past trauma into something productive
5:07 i lost it on gummy vitamins XD
Same lmfao
Bro that shit had me ROFL
The man is honestly underrated and no this is not a bot comment just genuine feeling
Edit I ain't a freaking bot comment bc all I see is bot comments like this but I actually think he deserves more than 249k
Holy shit it’s a bot comment! Only a bot would deny it.
That's something a bot would say...
Nice try, comment bot.
I'm not I promise 😂
@@mason4615 embrace it
I had a private tutor back when I was in the fourth grade. He was a total prick. Always used to bitch slap me whenever I got something wrong. And always used to have me wash my face and stay an extra twenty minutes for the redness in my eyes(cause of all the crying) to go away.
What the absolute £μ©€????? What an @$$ hole... I'm sorry he did this to you cause that is *never* okay. Did you tell someone this was going on??
Those monsters shouldnt be tutors
@@capuchinosofia4771 he said they were a tutor not a teacher.
@@xlmrami2729 fixed it! Tho, there is a phrase in my country that translates to "I poop in the difference"...
Aka, the difference between a tutor and a teacher isnt too big in this context so it doesnt really matter. Like, a teacher is someone that teaches. A tutor does too. (Certifications nonwithstanding.)
@@AgentAnime95 not sure how it was in your country but back in the early 2000s, in my country, it was extremely common for teachers to 'discipline' kids with physical punishment. Some were a little excessive but others were pretty acceptable. My most memorable one was when my eighth grade PE teacher literally slammed a plastic chair on a student's head. Damn was that a terrifying day. In his defense, the student was ignoring all of the PE teacher's warnings and just kept messing around with his friends. The teacher didn't get any backlash cause of it though. Because again, physical punishment was pretty common back then.
My dad used to make my math tutor from middle school do the note writing thing. He also made me go during my hour *and* my sister’s hour once, because I didn’t do my science homework w the *math* tutor. I feel bad for her looking back on, and it didn’t help that I had some untreated behavioral issues when I was younger that she had to deal with (she wasn’t trained to do so in any way). Props to all the tutors out there.. it can’t be an easy job
2:15 i think my calculator is broken, it just says zero when I hit enter!
I tutored math at my university and this gave me flashbacks. Thank you.
My grandmother once got me a tutor for math. I was doing well at it and didn’t signal having any issues with it. She only did it because we had an exam coming up. Fortunately the guy quickly realised I didn’t need tutoring and explained it to her.
I have a math tutor, and I'm greatly surprised that if you already know the material, why won't the tutor get you ahead by teaching you more about that topic? In my case, I don't necessarily need the tutor (am doing pretty well in classes), but I sought out for it because I wanted to learn more and learn additional content ahead of my scheduled class topics. My tutor helps with things I need help with in class of course, but otherwise this is basically self studying a topic with additional help. It's great! I get to learn more content through a teacher instead of trying to teach it to myself (I learn better with an actual teacher instead of self studying). But I may be partially biased due to the fact that I'm your typical good student.
"The one who absolutely does not need to be there" reminds me of another video ive seen with how some new inventions and ground breaking stuff are done. By accident
A student came late to class and saw the teacher had written an impossible problem, but he came too late so he didnt get the part where it was impossible, and thought it was homework
he ended up thinking completely differently and broke the code
great can’t wait to be utterly terrified how stupid I look to all of my teachers from now on, hyper analyzing my every move 👍
1:26 sounding like my anxiety no cap 🥲
I do get on my calculator when my tutor asks me simple questions and the face the tutor gives me is 2:19
You guys are allowed to use calculators during classes?
@@vuedanto8576 yeah I was but sometimes the tutor thought they were reducing the question to something so easy I didn't need a calculator
lets get Zach to 250k comn he deserves it with all the effort and humour that's the least we could do.
Though I've had quite a few of these types I still enjoy my job a lot. I love the moment when my students start understanding something or when I see them improve over time and I love getting them to the point that they hopefully won't need me anymore. Can't wait to be a teacher and not only do tutoring on the side while studying.
You missed the anxious, stressed-out-af kid and the actually normal, sweet kid with the actually normal parents, but yeah there are definitely some unbelievable kids and parents out there
"But I took an extra gummy vitamins today and now I'm feeling some extra efficient blood flow"