Teachers who support you cubing/puzzling

[Pete the Geek]

Do you have a teacher or teachers who are supportive of your cubing and/or twisty puzzling? Have any of your teachers incorporated cubes or puzzles in lessons? Can you cube freely at school (e.g. in the halls or during free time)? If you could talk to a teacher about your cubing, what would you want them to know/do? Full disclosure: I'm a teacher.

 

[ThomasJE]

I can cube by the Library (yes, really) on the computers using an online timer, and I do attract a small crowd sometimes. I may put Prisma on my USB, so I can use that. Also, I used to try to solve the Rubik's Cube before my teacher could do the register!!! My other teachers complain though when I do it in lessons .

 

[Georgeanderre]

I am at college, so I'm, generally, allowed to come and go as I please... no "teacher's" "encourage" cubing, but I'm allowed to do it whenever I'm not in lessons.

to be truthful, my cubing has got about half a dozen others into cubing..., or, I'm teaching them, We talk freely about it, and do it in public, draws a crown which is quite nice.

I do have to see a learning skills tutor on a weekly basis, and because its her job to "make me a better learner", she encourages me to cube, as it keeps my brain active and stops my "difficulties" from allowing me to work "to my potential". She isn't a teacher, as such, but she may as well be, I have learnt more from her than any English teacher I've had in the past

In reality, I rarely have any trouble keeping my brain turned on... its turning it off to relax I struggle with

There are a few teachers who solve the cube, mainly maths teachers, and they usually allow me (and others) to cube during the lesson, because it keeps us active (we finish before everyone else), and they think its slightly mathematical

 

[cparlette]

A teacher in my high school actually is the one who got me into cubing. He used to teach his AP Calculus students a method of how to solve it once they had taken the AP test, but I wasn't actually in his class. I was an aid for the math department and I saw him playing with it in the teacher's lounge, and it was then that I realized that it was actually solvable in a repeatable way. I went to Walmart and bought a cube, then went home and learned from Jessica Fridrich's site how to solve it (this was in 2002, so there weren't as many resources for cubing then). I told my teacher that I knew how to do it, so he invited me to come to a little competition he always has on the last day of school for his students. I'm not sure what method they knew, but I did it much faster due to the lower move count of the Fridrich method, even though it still took me about 2 minutes. The next day I found the Yahoo Speedsolving group, and I've been hooked ever since.

 

[BrainOfSweden]

Now that I'm studying at the univeristy, the teachers don't pay as much attention as they did last year when I was going to [whatever you call the school before University in your country]. Most of them where really impressed, and did encourage it. I never had a problem with them wanting me to stop, because I can manage not to cube while the teacher is talking. My friends however usually can't -.-' At the University, some teachers have at least acknowledged my cubing, mostly when I'm not doing regular 3x3's. A supervisor in the computer lab reacted like "Woah, that's a big one" to my V-7. And when I had picked up my Alpha CC at the post office on my way to the maths lecture, I used the mid-break to assemble the anti-popping pieces, and the teacher asked if I had messed it up so bad that I couldn't solve it But I'd say they are pretty neutral about it here.

 

[Achifaifa]

I've asked to my math teachers couple of questions about cubes (Studying computer science) and none of them showed much interest about it.

 

[mrpotatoman14]

I have a science teacher who thinks it's awesome. He can solve in about 2 minutes and actually asks if I've gotten a new PB every now and then. He's also my advisor and lets me cube during advisory. Otherwise my teachers don't really care. Unfortanetly my history teacher said she used to peel the stickers off them when she was younger :fp

 

[Slowpoke22]

In high school, my physics teacher had me solve it in front of the class. In college, a rhetoric professor timed my solves in front of the class every day for about a week. I also had a psychology professor who was very impressed when I was solving a 5x5 before class started. I had a philosophy professor get suuuper angry because I was solving a 7x7 during his lecture - he stopped lecturing and ridiculed me for a few minutes while the entire class was staring at me. XD

 

[Yuxuibbs]

I cube all day during school, during classes and the teachers just realize I can cube and take notes/do work at the same time and still finish way before everyone else. My science teacher is the sponsor of my cubing club so she encourages it. People in my class are amazed at first but they get used to it and my constant solving doesn't bother them at all. The teachers also figured out that less people were falling asleep because of my cubing.

 

[Windsor]

I cube in my free period at highschool, however my teachers don't like me solving it during a lesson unless I'm finished all of my work first. Although my shop teacher doesn't mind if I solve it while I listen to the OSHA course on the computer, so long as I pass all the quizes.

 

[Bob]

I don't mind my students cubing after they finish their work, but while I'm teaching or while they're supposed to be working, it's a no-no.

 

[JianhanC]

I once did this oral test, and the topic was our choice. I brought my FII and did a somewhat impressive introduction to cubing, at least to my teacher. She scrambled it while listening to me and afterwards demanded I solve it in front of the class. It was a pathetic 17 with a pop, but at least I scored in that test, 36/40

 

[JohnLaurain]

My teachers mostly let me cube when I'm done with my work, except for in spanish. The teacher threaten's to take away our toys/phones/whatever.

 

[Bob]

My teachers mostly let me cube when I'm done with my work, except for in spanish. The teacher threaten's to take away our toys/phones/whatever.

Phones? Not even allowed in the building.

 

[thackernerd]

I've never actually brought my cubes out of my backpack at school before so none of the teachers know about it. I usually just do them on the bus.

 

[pdilla]

None of my professors in college approved.

 

[Skullush]

In my experience teachers/professors have been somewhat indifferent toward cubing.

Sometimes I'll do solves or BLD solves during a lecture but I try my best to make as little noise as possible.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

My Health teacher used to compete. He knew about algorithms and non of the "pattern/code" BS everyone talks about.
He used to average 30.
Anybody know of a man by the name of S. Fullerton?

 

[tx789]

Teachers don't mind or are around that much when I bring a cube to school very month or so and cub during lunch hy would they care during lunch

 

[Kian]

I have a few students this semester that have stayed after to learn to cube. It's been a lot of fun and I hope they stick with it. It really gets kids interested who have very dissimilar attitudes about school, which is interesting.