About this episode
This Teacher Math Doesn't Add Up. Welcome back to Teachers Off Duty! This week our hosts Bri Richardson, Devin Seibold, and Jess Smith discuss schools newest subject, teacher math! Now if you don't know what girl math is, don't worry, we didn't know either, but essentially it's just doing mental gymnastics to justify large purchases. Like yea, buying a new purse for 300 bucks sounds rough, but when you're returning a clutch worth 250, you're essentially only paying 50 bucks right? And a little bit of girl math can be good for everyone, sometimes financial decisions are hard, and a little bit of romanticizing your purchases is comforting right? And that is especially true for buying school supplies. So how does this pertain to teachers? Well we've come up with a new phenomenon, teacher math. For example, how is it that even though I've only been a teacher for six years, it feels like I've been teaching for fifty five years? Jump right to it! 4:30 - "Teacher Math" Defined 7:50 - First Math Mishap 12:45 - Calculating Confessions 17:20 - Devin's Decimal Disaster 23:35 - Hilarious Math Anecdotes 28:40 - Outtakes & Bloopers So grab your calculator, because the math isn't mathing on this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty.