@@faithcastillo9597 I was going to say the same thing! I saw that set of measuring spoons and walking out of the store without them was never an option. lol
Wait until he tries to figure out how far away "around the corner" is, how far a "fair piece" is, and exactly how many meals you gotta pack for "a ways away".
As a Georgia girl, the sad (and funny) thing about this great video is that I understood everything this teacher said. I am crying laughing. Welcome to Georgia 🤣
Same!!! I grew up just outside of ATL and now live in Florida, and sometimes I have to remind my people here that “I’m from Atlanta (obviously pronounced At-lannah) but I’m also from Georgia” when my southern comes out
@@hiloveabbey Im from tally there we know georga and speak it now you must be talking down south florida and thats not a southern state and half the population is old.
As someone who has grown up in the South, "couple" meaning any small amount has always infuriated me. Also "the other day" can mean literally any day in the last month.
I thought this was so funny. In kindergarten we had a chart too, except it was fish in water, then on the beach, then in a frying pan 😂😂🥳 and that's when my teacher would call the parents hahaha.
When I was a kid, we had a stop sign and if you went to red once, your parents would be called and if you went twice in the same week, you’d be sent to the principal for a paddling… this was before our school stopped using corporal punishment (Concord Elementary, iykyk) and it was very effective- no one was on red often 😂😂 (I was in kindergarten in ‘06 so like this was relatively recent)
“Backtalk me again and I WILL move your possum from the trash can to the road”. I’m implementing this behavior system in my classroom next week. Perfection. 🎉🎉😂
"yay big" is any measurement you can indicate the edges of with one or both hands. It doesn't indicate actual size, but the relative size as perceived by the speaker. Hope this helps ❤
In fifth grade (in NC), we got a list of colloquialisms like “cattywaumpus” and “as the crow flies” as a vocab list. It was the most useful vocab list I ever had in school! 😂
Down yonder = a good ways vs. right chonder = if it was a snake it woulda bit ya, not to be confused with a 'little piece' down the road, which is any where from right chonder to way down yonder. Time over distance is converted to "miles annower." It took me thirty eleven times to understand all this!
As a professor of mathematics at a research university in the south. This is all absolutely correct. I’m pretty sure that Cantor discovered uncountable infinities when he first started to determine how many dollar generals there were.
I'm a southern teacher of southern students! This was hilarious because it's true with our colloquial words and phrases. My students know that possum will get moved in a heartbeat! I can't wait to start teaching in rural Northern Ireland 🤣
@@jjjackson5183a British actress got the part of Scarlett in Gone With the Wind because she did a better Southern Accent. The accents are actually closer than American Yankee
No lie, this is what moving from Boston to NC just in time to start 2nd grade felt like. I was just sitting in class like "I don't understand half of these words"
I lived in Georgia until I was 31 and moved to two different parts of NC. I can tell you I'm in that I don't understand but I think I got it stage. NC and Georgia math is not the same similar yes but definitely not the same.
It was just a confusing going from ID where they broke it down by type (Algebra, geometry, trig, Calc) to NY where they just threw it all at you at once. As a junior, some of the stuff they were doing I'd never seen before and some of it I'd learned way back in 7th grade. Only time math truly made me cry. Lol
Lol NC is NOT the South. I had no problem moving from way up North to way down South in first grade and understanding. This is wildly blown out of proportion.
I was expecting Matt to say "ALL of them" in response to "how many of them get tea" ... I mean, who doesn't make enough tea for a hundred people when having a dozen friends over? If you don't have enough leftovers to feed a battalion after a gathering, you're doing it wrong 😂
Single: 1 Couple: 2 Few: 3 Several: 4-7 Quite a few: 8-11 Dozen: 12 Bakers dozen: 13 A bunch: 14-22 A whole bunch (sometimes said as a lot, although a lot has a different meaning as well): 23-32 A lot: 28-42. (Can also go above for certain things) A gross amount: 1000+ For smaller things these numbers usually go up. For example a few beans or a few/3 spoonfuls. A bunch of sand doesn’t describe the number of sand particles. There are more rules but this is a good starting point.
As a southerner in college in the north I was baffled when someone corrected my use of “a couple them over there.” (I was referring to like 4). My roommate just looked at me like I was dumber than a tide pod for like a minute and then sat me down and explained for a couple minutes (like 3 or something) how “a couple” means specifically 2.
Coming from a person born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, this is brilliant! So classically Southern thinking and speaking! It makes perfect sense! Loved it! ❤
Being a southerner born and bred, I can relate to this math class. But, you forgot to use the numbers passel and bunch as in, "They's a passel of people comin' toonaht. Better cook a bunch of food." My mom used to say grunch, too.
I was also taught that a couple is anywhere from 2 -5, but a few started at 3. The overlap was because it depended on context. A few potato chips is certainly more than 5, but a few cars in your yard could be as little as 3 or 4.
I live in the north, but instinctively learned that a couple was 2-6ish. I think I was 35 before I was forcibly told that a couple was Always two. It's fake news, though. I still know in my heart that a couple is between 1 and a bunch.
To me, a couple is 2-5 (but usually only 4 or less), and a few is 3-6, possibly up to 7 in context (like you said, chips, and several starts at 7 (bc of the sev) and goes to about 13, and then after that, it's just a lot. (Or tons or mad or beaucoop or a bunch)
Need to do one of these for distances in the south! Midwest distances include: "Headed to the neighbors" (1-2 miles), "Not too far" (about 1hr), "A bit" (about 2 hrs), and "Visiting family" (5+ hrs). Of course "Headed on down" is any direction.
I literally told my family. "Ill head down to see you guys on Christmas." When I was living in Florida for a time and they were still in Michigan. Yes. No matter were you are. We say "We'll head down there"
Having been raised in the Mississippi public school system, I can confirm that this is exactly how they teach mathematics and why my degrees are in history and theology. 😂
I’ve been helping out in kindergarten at my kids’ school recently. They use a color chart for behavior there too. The bit about moving the possum from the trash can to the road killed me. It’s a better chart than just colors.
Perhaps but you're either going to get children that have a melt down cause their possum is now road kill OR that child that wants their possum to be road kill. PTA would get real interesting ...lol.
Funny, I learned a lot about southern cooking ( math+science) and it's always something weird, like I use a cup of flour, ( the cup is a small coffee cup) a pinch of this and a smidgen of that, also one of my favorites is, oh I just add til it looks right then I bake it 😹 I'm a master at not measuring anything anymore.. this is why southern people don't need numbers 😜🥰🐈🐾
It's because Southern cooks are more about process and transformation than they are about exact measurements. They want you to understand what they are doing and why.
@@biker5662 I'm still subscribed. I just don't think they're nearly as funny now that he's gone. He had to be main writer or at least main contributor to the skits because they just aren't as funny without him.
I lived in the south as a preschooler, and moved to the Midwest as a kindergartner. A couple/a few/some was the biggest struggle! I never knew what to expect.
When the question came up about ‘how long is this class?’ It felt like we slipped into the twilight zone. LOL This was so good, but scary at the same time. Loved it!
It’s amazing what happens when you give a tired premise to a good writer. At first I was like “here we go again” but by the end I was like “I need to comment on how good this was”
Marvelous. Matt, you are a treasure. That possum idea is clever, all by itself, and all the rest rocks. Your acting is superb - there were three little extras that really made it snap - Bravo!
Ok, I'm from Colorado, and the teacher actually made sense in the description of Couple, Few, and a whole mess. Why couldn't I have him as my math teacher? I probably would have made it to quantum mechanics.
These vague terms would probably do well for quantum mechanics given that the whole point of that discipline is you don't know where something is at a given time.
It reminds me of my Trigonometry class in college, taught by a Physics professor. He was really big on word problems even though I kept telling him I didn't care how many telephone poles I passed on that train. I still think he gave me a D hoping I wouldn't repeat his class... He was always telling me, "...you start out correctly and then get lost and then come up with an answer that is sometimes correct". I couldn't help it if Southern Math was beyond his grasp.
I love these, as a Southerner now living in the Pacific Northwest, I look at these vids and just laugh to myself going "yeah, that's about how it is" lol
I agree! At any given moment a new Dollar store (Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar)can pop up without any notice! There's way too many to count. And once you think you're done counting, a new one has just been put up! I love them though. Where else can you get name brand merchandise, in smaller quantities and cheaper!
In 5th grade, our math teacher wrote out all of the quantity words (couple, few, some, many, etc.) and made us assign values to them individually then as a group. Was intended as multiple lessons rolled up into one and I'll never forget it; individual vs group think (generally consensus decision is better), how people give different meaning to vague descriptors so you can't assume you understand the same, the meaning of the words, etc.
But weren't you supposed to divide Shoo by the number of tornado sirens you get before noon then multiply by the number hours of winter you had this year? Asking for my northern friends..
Nah, you have to multiply shoo by the tornado sirens, as everyone gets up in a tizzy over the ruckus and fixate on the presence of sweet tea after the noise dies down a bit.
Hilarious as usual although you forgot the "he aint no bigger than a minute" or "It's been a minute since I've seen you." Southern sayings go on forever!
It was like being around my North Carolina family again. Aaaah, the memories of the accents, ideas and definitions. Sweet memories, that is. Thanks for the laughs. God bless you.
When I first saw Matt on the other channel I didn't think he was very funny. But he has really upped his comedy game and is very creative and hilarious. Definitely a very funny guy now.
Funny how? Does he amuse you? Is he your clown? You do know he's a Southerner, which means he concealed carries and owns a shotgun? So choose your words carefully. Funny how?
I love the "Not southern" guy meets "southern everything". These are absolutely the best! Now I'm gonna go make a whole mess'a biscuits ta go wit my sausage gravy.
The 13th one was for tasting to help facilitate sales. How could you not buy the dozen after a taste? Pretty smart tactic in my book. There is method to the madness.
Hi Y'all. Now this is in all seriousness.. I've already watched this video a COUPLE TIMES today, and plan on watching it A FEW more times again. It still cracks me up every time I watch it!! It's SO TRUE. Love ya, Matt. So glad that you have your own channel now. Keep up the GREAT WORK! Have a nice weekend. 😀😄. Kim
"A few..." draws a nine "K, just makin' stuff up." 🤣 😂 🤣 LOL Dude this whole skit is hilarious! I'm gonna share it with all my friends, I love it so much!
I get it now too. I didnt stand a chance of passing math! A child being raised in the north by southerners being taught by a recent European immigrant. Help me!
This was hilarious right up to the point when I remembered that the three main NASA centres are in Alabama (NASA Marshall), Florida (Kennedy) and Texas (Johnson)!! "Flight Director, we gonna need a whole mess of hydrazine propellant to rendezvous with ISS up there," makes perfect sense to me. 🤣
Subscribe or I’m moving your possum to the road.
You are so crazy. I love it.
You wouldn't
That evil laugh almost got me in the end.
But then the mfr started coughing. 😅
You are soooo damned good ..
What if we have already been subscribed? Does that mean our possum get a treat?
Wait til he gets to fractions and has to figure out "smidgen."
Gotcha covered, chief. I have a measuring spoon with that measurement, along with pinch and dab.
@faithcastillo9597 ok that's funny
How about a dash of this and a pinch of that?
@@faithcastillo9597 I was going to say the same thing! I saw that set of measuring spoons and walking out of the store without them was never an option. lol
@@oneminuteofmyday Amen. A very dear friend gifted me the ones I have. Dash, pinch and smidgen.
And they do see occasional use.
It’s Matt’s throwaway lines, like “this was made in China”, that always put me on the floor. The man’s brilliant!
Yes! 😂😂😂
The “Made in China” just cracked me up.
Texas...made in China 😅
But I also like the instructor Matt pocketing the calculator and student Matt doesn't notice.
That was brilliant! Not a smidgen of brilliant, mind you, but a whole mess of brilliant!
Wait until he tries to figure out how far away "around the corner" is, how far a "fair piece" is, and exactly how many meals you gotta pack for "a ways away".
Yep, "up yunder a ways" aint that far,,
and how many vacation days you need to take for "a while down the road"
As a Georgia girl, the sad (and funny) thing about this great video is that I understood everything this teacher said. I am crying laughing. Welcome to Georgia 🤣
Same!!! I grew up just outside of ATL and now live in Florida, and sometimes I have to remind my people here that “I’m from Atlanta (obviously pronounced At-lannah) but I’m also from Georgia” when my southern comes out
Yep. If a Georgian says that he’s from Atlanta, he’s definitely from the suburbs.
@@hiloveabbey Im from tally there we know georga and speak it now you must be talking down south florida and thats not a southern state and half the population is old.
@@hiloveabbey They are definitely two separate places. "You don't get into Georgia until you get out of Atlanta".
I’m from Pennsylvania and completely understood every word.
As someone who has grown up in the South, "couple" meaning any small amount has always infuriated me. Also "the other day" can mean literally any day in the last month.
For my best friend and I, the other days can go back years 😂
If I say the other day, all you know for sure is I was alive when it happened
hahaha
@@zachcollette5608 😂😂😂
@@zachcollette5608 yep and i was able to walk n talk
As a teacher, I now want to change my clip chart to a opossum chart.
I thought this was so funny. In kindergarten we had a chart too, except it was fish in water, then on the beach, then in a frying pan 😂😂🥳 and that's when my teacher would call the parents hahaha.
An opossum...
When I was a kid, we had a stop sign and if you went to red once, your parents would be called and if you went twice in the same week, you’d be sent to the principal for a paddling… this was before our school stopped using corporal punishment (Concord Elementary, iykyk) and it was very effective- no one was on red often 😂😂 (I was in kindergarten in ‘06 so like this was relatively recent)
@@danbsports6760 You forget it's the south. I believe "ah possum" is the correct term here.
@@danbsports6760😂😂😂
“Backtalk me again and I WILL move your possum from the trash can to the road”. I’m implementing this behavior system in my classroom next week. Perfection. 🎉🎉😂
I'm not a teacher but I'm thinking about how I might use that system, too. Maybe I'll try it while trying to herd the volunteers at church.
My high school math teacher loved saying something was “yay big” without ever telling us how big a yay was.
Underrated comment.
"yay big" is any measurement you can indicate the edges of with one or both hands. It doesn't indicate actual size, but the relative size as perceived by the speaker. Hope this helps ❤
It's also "Yea", not "Yay".
Makes me sad.
You forgot “yay tall” and “yay wide”. 😊
In fifth grade (in NC), we got a list of colloquialisms like “cattywaumpus” and “as the crow flies” as a vocab list. It was the most useful vocab list I ever had in school! 😂
I once got kept after school cuz a teacher was eavesdropping on my conversation with a friend and heard me say "howsabout". Yankee.
@@queenbee3647 holy crap what?? I’d be expelled for the words we use like n’n’y’all or ‘f’v’y’all’dve 🤣🤣🤣
My friends hate it when I talk about the rotary outside the school (we live in Florida but my mom's from Boston)
@@jessicacallaghan8082 you must mean the roundabout! 😂 We once got a town-wide postcard of explaining how to use it when the first one was installed.
@@imaclover1428 I can handle the roundabouts, but we recently got a crossover diamond in the area and I just plain don’t go that way now.
You forgot the whole section of Southern math that involves measuring distance.
Down yonder = a good ways vs. right chonder = if it was a snake it woulda bit ya, not to be confused with a 'little piece' down the road, which is any where from right chonder to way down yonder. Time over distance is converted to "miles annower." It took me thirty eleven times to understand all this!
@@earlleegrace3318 Yep, and "Its a fur piece out dere" = it's pretty far off!!
And don't forget, "You can't get there from here."
Never forget "a fair piece" or "over yonder". More important for measuring in the South than metric will ever dream of!
“A hop n a skip” “a country mile” “down the road” can mean a frickin 20 min drive at 70mph 🤣
As a professor of mathematics at a research university in the south. This is all absolutely correct.
I’m pretty sure that Cantor discovered uncountable infinities when he first started to determine how many dollar generals there were.
Dollar General stores are like the infinite coast problem in cartography.
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How many dollar generals are there between two dollar generals?
@@seismicvertigo345Depends. We talking strip mall Dollar Generals or out by itself ones?
Wait. The number of Dollar Generals would be countably infinite. At least that’s what my Number Theory professor told me. 😂
I'm a southern teacher of southern students! This was hilarious because it's true with our colloquial words and phrases. My students know that possum will get moved in a heartbeat! I can't wait to start teaching in rural Northern Ireland 🤣
Enjoy Northern Ireland, and make sure your students get home before dark.🤔
😳they get "southern math" better than Americans... 🤔mostly from being cheated by the English
Our Southern tendency to colloquialisms come from the Brittish Isles as it is. You should do fine.
Well darlin' remember, when you step foot on their soil you become THE YANKEE, and I bet they won't care!
@@jjjackson5183a British actress got the part of Scarlett in Gone With the Wind because she did a better Southern Accent. The accents are actually closer than American Yankee
No lie, this is what moving from Boston to NC just in time to start 2nd grade felt like. I was just sitting in class like "I don't understand half of these words"
Happened to me moving from Arizona to Louisiana in Second Grade as well.
I lived in Georgia until I was 31 and moved to two different parts of NC. I can tell you I'm in that I don't understand but I think I got it stage. NC and Georgia math is not the same similar yes but definitely not the same.
As a North Carolina native...I can verify this 😂
It was just a confusing going from ID where they broke it down by type (Algebra, geometry, trig, Calc) to NY where they just threw it all at you at once. As a junior, some of the stuff they were doing I'd never seen before and some of it I'd learned way back in 7th grade. Only time math truly made me cry. Lol
Lol NC is NOT the South. I had no problem moving from way up North to way down South in first grade and understanding. This is wildly blown out of proportion.
I was expecting Matt to say "ALL of them" in response to "how many of them get tea" ... I mean, who doesn't make enough tea for a hundred people when having a dozen friends over? If you don't have enough leftovers to feed a battalion after a gathering, you're doing it wrong 😂
Facts!
Truth bomb! LOL
You can always add more water and sugar. 😁
Legit. The goal is to not have to cook till Tuesday.
All in the south is oil. We can't pronounce oil. All is language not math.
“Unless we’re at Krispy Kreme, where a dozen could be 24, depending on the kind of special they’re running.”
Omg so true!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Single: 1
Couple: 2
Few: 3
Several: 4-7
Quite a few: 8-11
Dozen: 12
Bakers dozen: 13
A bunch: 14-22
A whole bunch (sometimes said as a lot, although a lot has a different meaning as well): 23-32
A lot: 28-42. (Can also go above for certain things)
A gross amount: 1000+
For smaller things these numbers usually go up. For example a few beans or a few/3 spoonfuls. A bunch of sand doesn’t describe the number of sand particles. There are more rules but this is a good starting point.
Well bless your heart, you ain’t from around here are ya?
@@misiluki100
I’m very much from the south unfortunately
I absolutely love the breakdown . Makes perfect sense , god bless you have a wonderful day.
Took all the fun out of math .
As a southerner in college in the north I was baffled when someone corrected my use of “a couple them over there.” (I was referring to like 4). My roommate just looked at me like I was dumber than a tide pod for like a minute and then sat me down and explained for a couple minutes (like 3 or something) how “a couple” means specifically 2.
I’m from VA and I only learned this because Judge Judy was yelling about it to someone that a couple is two and a few is 3+
love how you used 'a couple minutes' hahaha
😂😂😂
He was wrong, you said a couple, which can be 3-infinte, not that couple, which is 2
I love America. :)
Coming from a person born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, this is brilliant! So classically Southern thinking and speaking! It makes perfect sense! Loved it! ❤
Yeah, I had no problem following along. He was off with some figures but it all made total sense.
Same, except I had a Yankee dad. I've warned my kids about using "couple" in mixed company, but they never pay me no mind.
Being a southerner born and bred, I can relate to this math class. But, you forgot to use the numbers passel and bunch as in, "They's a passel of people comin' toonaht. Better cook a bunch of food." My mom used to say grunch, too.
I was also taught that a couple is anywhere from 2 -5, but a few started at 3. The overlap was because it depended on context. A few potato chips is certainly more than 5, but a few cars in your yard could be as little as 3 or 4.
I'd also say anything between 5 and 12 could also be referred to as "a handful"
Helps bridge that big gap between "a few" and "a dozen"
I live in the north, but instinctively learned that a couple was 2-6ish. I think I was 35 before I was forcibly told that a couple was Always two.
It's fake news, though. I still know in my heart that a couple is between 1 and a bunch.
To me, a couple is 2-5 (but usually only 4 or less), and a few is 3-6, possibly up to 7 in context (like you said, chips, and several starts at 7 (bc of the sev) and goes to about 13, and then after that, it's just a lot. (Or tons or mad or beaucoop or a bunch)
Unless it's beer. As in 'We're gonna have a couplethree beers.' Which just becomes a whole mess of beers anyway.
Exactly!
Need to do one of these for distances in the south! Midwest distances include: "Headed to the neighbors" (1-2 miles), "Not too far" (about 1hr), "A bit" (about 2 hrs), and "Visiting family" (5+ hrs). Of course "Headed on down" is any direction.
and when you're "headed on down to visit family" that means you're sleeping in a motel to get there.
Not really a distance thing but when you get directions and it includes go down this road a spell
I literally told my family. "Ill head down to see you guys on Christmas." When I was living in Florida for a time and they were still in Michigan. Yes. No matter were you are. We say "We'll head down there"
I live in Indiana and have never heard this
@@jimskywaker4345 well you have now lol. We need a guy to do these kinds of videos on the midwest cause its crazy here
Having been raised in the Mississippi public school system, I can confirm that this is exactly how they teach mathematics and why my degrees are in history and theology. 😂
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History and theology are run exactly the same way..... uncontrolled idiocity.
Lol same
this explains why i have trouble with math. I learned it in the south until 3rd grade, then I had to learn math in the Midwest 4th grade and up.
Add a little geography: when people ask you where a place is, just tell them it is north of Antarctica. Majority of the time you will be right.
The fact that when he said the word problem the first time I immediately blurted out "whatever's left after were all done"
"the back says 'Made in China'" hit me hard--good one
Me too. Just the way he said it 😂
I’ve been helping out in kindergarten at my kids’ school recently. They use a color chart for behavior there too. The bit about moving the possum from the trash can to the road killed me. It’s a better chart than just colors.
Perhaps but you're either going to get children that have a melt down cause their possum is now road kill OR that child that wants their possum to be road kill. PTA would get real interesting ...lol.
Haha I was thinking that too!
I was just picturing Rosanna giggling silently to herself when she looks at the kindergarten charts from now on.
If I were in that class with the possum in the road, theyd be calling me ROADKILL. 😂😂😂😂
Why didn't I take algebra in school. This is the easiest thing on earth.
Funny, I learned a lot about southern cooking ( math+science) and it's always something weird, like I use a cup of flour, ( the cup is a small coffee cup) a pinch of this and a smidgen of that, also one of my favorites is, oh I just add til it looks right then I bake it 😹 I'm a master at not measuring anything anymore.. this is why southern people don't need numbers 😜🥰🐈🐾
It's because Southern cooks are more about process and transformation than they are about exact measurements. They want you to understand what they are doing and why.
I can't believe the algorithm kept this comedy gold away from me for a whole year! I laughed the whole time 😅❤
Having worked as a teachers aide in all elementary grades this is a gem! I especially love the possum 😂. Puts a new perspective on behaving 😊
It's become painfully obvious who the writing talent was for "It's a Southern Thing"!!! Loving this channel, Matt! Keep up the hilarious work!!!
Yesss. So much is missing without him!! They've lost my subscription.
They still have talent over there, but Matt was kinda like that extra salt and flavor and so IST isn't as good as it was. Pity.
@@RonJDuncan He wasn't just extra salt. He was a whole mess of salt.
@@biker5662 I'm still subscribed. I just don't think they're nearly as funny now that he's gone. He had to be main writer or at least main contributor to the skits because they just aren't as funny without him.
@@watchandjewelryloft4713 True enough.
😂😂😂 "Back talk me again and I'm gonna move your opossum from the trashcan to the road."
As an Elementary teacher, THIS moment was gold!!😂😂
Born in AL, live in TN, you are the most correct person I've ever met.
I am 100% using "Backtalk me again - and I'm moving your possum from the trash can to the road!" today!
We're missing "a handfull"
A handfull of my buddies went fishin and saw Nessy.
Was glad to sit a spell and spend a bit watching this. Now I gotta go down over yonder a piece. Y'all have a good one.
I would pay an unreasonable price to take this class if it was real
Matt you have the best evil laugh, such a great sense of humor!
Doesn't he though! With that last laugh, I could'a sworn I saw horns coming out of his head!
Love the “move the possum to the road” ! This is my favorite so far.😂😂😂😂
I lived in the south as a preschooler, and moved to the Midwest as a kindergartner. A couple/a few/some was the biggest struggle! I never knew what to expect.
I don't remember my math classes like this, but the example of using tea... that always seemed to be a thing.
When the question came up about ‘how long is this class?’ It felt like we slipped into the twilight zone. LOL This was so good, but scary at the same time. Loved it!
I was thinking Kafka! lol
“It’s a word problem, Jimbo!” - Quote of the Year
“I will move your ‘possum from the trash can to the road!”
I shot coffee out my nose…
It’s amazing what happens when you give a tired premise to a good writer. At first I was like “here we go again” but by the end I was like “I need to comment on how good this was”
Marvelous. Matt, you are a treasure. That possum idea is clever, all by itself, and all the rest rocks. Your acting is superb - there were three little extras that really made it snap - Bravo!
Ok, I'm from Colorado, and the teacher actually made sense in the description of Couple, Few, and a whole mess. Why couldn't I have him as my math teacher? I probably would have made it to quantum mechanics.
Using this system isn't quantum mechanics just another term for making moonshine?
@@markmierau5189 Or amphetamines. Your choice really.
These vague terms would probably do well for quantum mechanics given that the whole point of that discipline is you don't know where something is at a given time.
It reminds me of my Trigonometry class in college, taught by a Physics professor. He was really big on word problems even though I kept telling him I didn't care how many telephone poles I passed on that train.
I still think he gave me a D hoping I wouldn't repeat his class...
He was always telling me, "...you start out correctly and then get lost and then come up with an answer that is sometimes correct".
I couldn't help it if Southern Math was beyond his grasp.
I love these, as a Southerner now living in the Pacific Northwest, I look at these vids and just laugh to myself going "yeah, that's about how it is" lol
This is prolly my favorite out of your whole mess of videos 😂😂😂
The number of Dollar Generals just made me laugh too hard.
Facts! I started laughing the moment he started drawing it.
Best line!😂
I agree! At any given moment a new Dollar store (Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar)can pop up without any notice! There's way too many to count. And once you think you're done counting, a new one has just been put up! I love them though. Where else can you get name brand merchandise, in smaller quantities and cheaper!
By name brand, you mean the Hallmork cards, Adidos shows, and Martha Stuart sheets?
@@mjmaccabee7252 yeah and others like Reynold's foil wrap, name brand candy like M&M's & Hershey's, and name brand laundry detergent.
Well, shoot, maybe this explains my child's current math grades!! Keep 'em comin' Matt!
I laughed so hard at this. This sounds like the discussions with my son, Matt. You Matthews are hilarious!!
Just watched your math class. Liked,subscribed, notifications and shared. The answer to everything is always 4, or a towel. You’ll go far.
This channel is very helpful for us southerners who moved up north. It's like a pocket translator for our Yankee friends.
it's more for northerners learning proper english :) greetings from europe
In 5th grade, our math teacher wrote out all of the quantity words (couple, few, some, many, etc.) and made us assign values to them individually then as a group. Was intended as multiple lessons rolled up into one and I'll never forget it; individual vs group think (generally consensus decision is better), how people give different meaning to vague descriptors so you can't assume you understand the same, the meaning of the words, etc.
Group think sucks!
'Move your possum from the trash can to the road'! That's a new one!
I asked my dad how much bleach to put in. He said a glub and a half.
Southern Math needs to be a series.
The genius required to make this cannot be overstated! Pure comedy gold!
" I’m moving your possum to the road." Genius
"I will move your possum from the trashcan to the road," made me guffaw. 😅
But weren't you supposed to divide Shoo by the number of tornado sirens you get before noon then multiply by the number hours of winter you had this year? Asking for my northern friends..
Depends what part of the South you live in
@@dakkenblah1450 so would you then multiply by the number of hurricanes from last season of the number of Vandy NCAA football championships?
Well, the number of winter-hours this year was less than 24, so that's not that many.
Nah, you have to multiply shoo by the tornado sirens, as everyone gets up in a tizzy over the ruckus and fixate on the presence of sweet tea after the noise dies down a bit.
..there ya go..🤣
Hilarious as usual although you forgot the "he aint no bigger than a minute" or "It's been a minute since I've seen you." Southern sayings go on forever!
And don't forget "fixin' to" can mean anything from right now to next week!
I'm fixin' to write those down
I’ll just add “N’em” to the list, which means any number over 2 as in: “Matt n’em are comin’ over.”
Wait till he’s gotta figure out how soft a baby’s bottom is when making bread dough 😂
The possum had me laughing so hard!
Thank you, maybe? Is that a good thing???
Finally, a math teacher that makes sense. I've been mad as all get out with all the free loaders showing up to the bbq
You just have to show them Shoo ... all sorted.
As somebody who flunked every math class I took, this actually made sense to me.
When you said all the Dollar General stores I screamed OH MY GOD!!!!!
Omg I about died laughing. Thank you random recommendation. I so needed this. Best part is this is so legit
Yes! I had a whole mess of laughs during this one. Thank you for finally explaining a couple.
I thought everyone knew it meant 3-5!
the Texas Instruments joke got me. made me spew a mess of tea all over a few of my 'lectronics.
C'mon, Matt! Ya didn't even get into distance measurements! This Yankee is still tryin' to figure out how far a country mile is! 😁
Generally, a country mile goes on til you get there.
As far as the eye can see and then a bit further
I hear a country mile is a ways past a nautical mile, which is itself a ways past a normal regular standard statute mile.
I am proud to say I am southern, I hate math, and I aced this class. I understand southern math. 😁
He forgot to end the lesson with practicing their motto, "Dey Terk Er Jerbs!"
"Ya got a few gallons of tea..."
*checks fridge and does, indeed, have a "few" gallons of tea
You puttin' cameras in my fridge?
I'm going back to school as an adult and started college algebra yesterday....first math class in 14 years....this is exactly how it felt.
This is like me talking to my husband... Where I'm the smart teacher 🤣🤣🤦🏻♀️
"Catty Wampus" I love that ❤😂
I lost my shit when he drew the Infinite sign for the Dollar General stores. 😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂
It was like being around my North Carolina family again. Aaaah, the memories of the accents, ideas and definitions. Sweet memories, that is. Thanks for the laughs. God bless you.
When I first saw Matt on the other channel I didn't think he was very funny. But he has really upped his comedy game and is very creative and hilarious. Definitely a very funny guy now.
Funny how? Does he amuse you? Is he your clown? You do know he's a Southerner, which means he concealed carries and owns a shotgun? So choose your words carefully. Funny how?
I think he's always been funny, but he was held back at IAST. Now that the muzzle is off, he can be his hysterically genius self 🤣
This was the most HILARIOUS yet frustrating thing I've ever seen on UA-cam! 🤣🤪🤣😖
What am I now…the possum in the road? That had me in stitches!
I love the "Not southern" guy meets "southern everything". These are absolutely the best! Now I'm gonna go make a whole mess'a biscuits ta go wit my sausage gravy.
you forgot a baker's dozen which is more than 12 cause a baker would make an extra one making it 13.
The 13th one was for tasting to help facilitate sales. How could you not buy the dozen after a taste? Pretty smart tactic in my book. There is method to the madness.
@@reesaserik3759 I thought it was to guarantee that they weren't slightly underweight from the claimed weight they were selling.
@@torinnbalasar6774 It was :)
I understood that math just fine. Maybe he’d have gotten the gist if it would have been a cornbread muffin to mess of greens ratio? 😊😂
“Ill move your opossum from the trash can to the road”
As a northern living in Tennessee I’m terrified and loving it
I can be having the worst day and Matt always makes me laugh! Plus he always makes my day better too! 😂
I lost it when you said you'd move the possum from the trash can to the road, lollll
The infinity sign for "the number of Dollar Generals"... 🤣💀
The laughing at the end is so real for my dad
I'm a math teacher in Georgia and we just started working on word problems today. Love this guy.
Hi Y'all. Now this is in all seriousness.. I've already watched this video a COUPLE TIMES today, and plan on watching it A FEW more times again. It still cracks me up every time I watch it!! It's SO TRUE. Love ya, Matt. So glad that you have your own channel now. Keep up the GREAT WORK! Have a nice weekend. 😀😄. Kim
Lesson 2 should be units od measure. " a touch vs. a pinch of seasoning," "around the corner", "a minute vs. A hot minute" " a while"
"A few..." draws a nine
"K, just makin' stuff up."
🤣 😂 🤣 LOL
Dude this whole skit is hilarious! I'm gonna share it with all my friends, I love it so much!
All the Dollar General stores ♾😂😂😂
Maybe this is why I didn’t get good grades in math 😂
I get it now too. I didnt stand a chance of passing math! A child being raised in the north by southerners being taught by a recent European immigrant. Help me!
This was hilarious right up to the point when I remembered that the three main NASA centres are in Alabama (NASA Marshall), Florida (Kennedy) and Texas (Johnson)!!
"Flight Director, we gonna need a whole mess of hydrazine propellant to rendezvous with ISS up there," makes perfect sense to me. 🤣
When he said they didn’t RSVP I literally said “Oo, none”
You are hilarious! You make me laugh so hard, it always makes my day better. And for that, I thank you very, very much.
The Southern vs. The Realist set is perfect... keep 'em coming!