Algebrawwww
(I’m a math teacher at a small high school. My boyfriend is an English teacher in the same school. He often leaves me notes on the board in my room during lunch, so my students and I see them as we come in. One day, I get into my classroom and see that all of my students are sitting in their seats, waiting for me, which is odd. One of my students hands me a paper.)
Student #1: “Here! [Boyfriend] told us to have you solve this equation on the board.”
(The instructions are to “solve the inequality for i in terms of u.” I can guess where this is going. I figure it’s just another one of his notes.)
Me: “Okay, but we only have a few minutes before class starts.”
(I start to solve the problem, but as I get closer and closer to the end, I notice something’s off about the problem. My students start to snicker.)
Student #2: “Oh, my God!”
Student #3: “What? What’s wrong?”
Student #2: “He forgot that when you divide by a negative number, you flip the signs!”
(I finished the problem and laughed. The answer was “i<3u”. I turned around and saw my boyfriend on one knee in front of the class, a box in one hand and his head in the other. I said yes!)
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