EuExplorer, you're a member on the 'other' forum. So I'm curious...What do you teach?

FineDude, why avoid Warsaw? It seems like a top rate school to me.

I'd rather stick my head in the sand somewhere in the uptight Middle East than subject my lungs to that chemical wasteland known as China. But to each his own...

Yea Dash, I would get an elementary license too. Strictly middle school math is quite limiting.

Diamond35 wrote:
> What you experienced is "bait and switch".
>
> Women have been doing this to men for 1000s of years. This is the formula:
> - females create a social system where men feel the need to give gifts to
> females, in the *hope* of gaining sexual access
> - a man meets a woman, and buys a gift (in your case, a drink at a bar)
> - the woman extracts more and more out of the man, catering to the *hope*
> that he will gain sexual access
> - she lures him into a slave contract (today know as marriage) where the
> man is obligated to support her
>
> Men. Wake up and smell the coffee!


This is why I will always be amongst the noble ranks of bachelors. Marriage is a bad investment.

Ddd wrote:
> Geneva IS
> ICS zurich
> IS Zug and Luzern
> IS Basel
> Le rosey
> Aiglon college
>
> All these schools have excellent packages.

All those schools are in the most expensive nation in Europe.

Even with one or two not so flattering references, its shocking to me you didn't at least get an interview. There aren't that many HL math teachers out there. How wide a net did you cast? Were you aiming exclusively for one region?

How is Moscow not told tier anymore? Its one of the best packages out there as far as I know...

Hah...no scam involved buddy. Women do this in every country. Its why I threw chivalry out the window. Buy them the cheapest beer on tap and if they dont like it, move on.

How is the situation for teachers in Australia? My Aussie friends make the place sound like a beacon of prosperity..but they're blue collar guys...

I don't think so either but you would have to be more of a natural.;-

pgrass wrote:
> I am talking about real extended courses. I guess you are talking about AP
> Calculus AB, the easier course. Imagine a mathematics course where all the
> content from AP Calculus BC (the challenging AP Calculus course)
> represented just two units out of a total of seven, plus an in depth
> exploration. That is IB Math HL (assuming you take the calculus option).


IB HL doesn't delve into calculus in anywhere near the same depth as Calc BC. Its a more generalist course and while not easy, its not the rocket science you make out to be. You sound like one of my egomaniac math professors. Didn't make the cut for university level did you?

No, not everyone can pass it. But considering that math naturals make up a miniscule percentage of students, a lot of 'ungifted' people still manage to do well.

pgrass wrote:
> Again, spoken like a non math teacher.
>
> The fact that you consider teaching to be not very creative is worrying.

Teaching isn't creative, you teach the same material/work the same problems year in and year out. This is particularly the case for you as you seem unable to adjust your methods to assist the non gifted.

If you were the math prodigy that you say are, you would be applying your talents in a field where you actually produce something. You're an educated monkey with a sharpey. Sorry to wreck your illusions of grandeur....

pgrass wrote:
> SpedMaestro wrote:
> > pgrass wrote:
> > > I good mathematics teacher has, among other things, natural mathematical
> > > ability and is confident in this ability. You can't learn this ability from
> > > any course. The fact that you are asking means that you shouldn't be
> > > teaching any extended courses.
> >
> > I smell a troll. Were you born with the quadratic formula memorized and an
> innate
> > understanding of algebra? Mathematical skill is acquired by rote memory and
> practice,
> > nothing more.
>
> Complete nonsense. You don't pass HL Mathematics with just rote memory and practice.
> You can work your ass off but if you don't have the natural ability then you crash
> and burn in the final exams. You need to know how to apply the "quadratic
> formula" to any number of (new) situations the examiners will throw at you. Some
> people naturally see how to start a problem. Others don't, even though they know how
> to use the "quadratic formula".
>
> I guess that you are either a) not a mathematics teacher, or b) a mathematics teacher
> who doesn't teach IB HL or AP Calculus BC.

It's time someone put you in your place. If you were a math natural, you wouldn't be teaching HS math, you'd actually be applying your skills in something creative and far more lucrative. In the grand scheme of things, IB HL and calc BC are not high level maths. Its nothing that a 1st year undergrad wouldn't see. To argue that you have to be mathematically gifted in order to learn that material is laughable. And you must be an exceedingly poor teacher, if only the 'naturals' are passing the final exam.