Teachers who support you cubing/puzzling

[Owen]

I cringe at the thought of cubing at school.

 

[DRAGON_RYU]

Do you have a teacher or teachers who are supportive of your cubing and/or twisty puzzling? There were some but we cubed too much and they got sick of it....
Have any of your teachers incorporated cubes or puzzles in lessons? I'm not sure if I understood what you meant but I think the answer is no.
Can you cube freely at school (e.g. in the halls or during free time)? Apart from class time yeah.
If you could talk to a teacher about your cubing, what would you want them to know/do? Do nothing.......

 

[jonlin]

Do you have a teacher or teachers who are supportive of your cubing and/or twisty puzzling? There were some but we cubed too much and they got sick of it....
Have any of your teachers incorporated cubes or puzzles in lessons? I'm not sure if I understood what you meant but I think the answer is no.
Can you cube freely at school (e.g. in the halls or during free time)? Apart from class time yeah.
If you could talk to a teacher about your cubing, what would you want them to know/do? Do nothing.......

There is an Algebra I class where she goes through a unit on the cube where she explains set theory, commutators, etc. Then she assembles a competition for the whole school.

 

[TheZenith27]

My physics teacher is supportive of cubing. She doesn't let me cube in class though.

 

[iEnjoyCubing]

My engineering teacher has seemed to take a slight interest in it; he asked me the other day if I had been to any competitions recently (he didn't know they existed until I told him at the end of class one day). I said no but we had a nice conversation about it, he actually knew about CubeStormer II and we discussed how it might have been programmed. All the others though haven't really taken an interest - sure they think it's neat, but they don't really talk about it or anything (some don't even know - I usually don't cube in school anymore).

 

[RNewms27]

Physics teacher saw me with it the one time I brought it to school this year. "Hey, you're pretty fast."

 

[hyunchoi98]

I'm in middle school.

English: 'put it away.'
Civics: 'HEY! STOP PLAYING WITH THE RUBIK'S CUBE!!'
Science: '*intrigued* put it away'
Math: *no response*

teachers standing by the cafeteria during lunch: "WOW! that's amazing!!"

 

[CheesePuffs]

I'm in middle school and my LA teacher bought cubes for when kids finish early and everybody is like wow when I solve a 3x3 and a pyraminx. But when I try to solve the megaminx, time runs out and other kids screw up my progress

 

[mdolszak]

My Algebra teacher last year was actually the person who got me into cubing. He solved it in front of the class, and it started a chain reaction of cubers forming.

I used to cube in school all the time last year. Some of the teachers were ok with it, and some were not.

I don't really cube in school anymore now; mostly just at home.

 

[IamWEB]

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.

I just wanted to take a few seconds and acknowledge how great of a story this is.

 

[JasonK]

I cringe at the thought of cubing at school.

This. I've never understood why you would cube at school to be honest.

 

[Photon]

This. I've never understood why you would cube at school to be honest.

boredom. simple as that. I get lots of free time in school. This time of the year, teachers are frequently busy with 12th standard/grade/whatever finals. its a stress buster to an extent. I can solve it in front of my physics and chem teachers, they've never reacted to it. The others, I do it after I'm done with my work. No one bothers. Another boy got busted for reading a novel during Maths, but apparently a rubik's cube is too inconsequential.

 

[coldplay]

Another boy got busted for reading a novel during Math, but apparently a rubik's cube is too inconsequential.

Wow... That's hilarious!

 

[cubeflip]

One of my teachers lets my friends and I cube in class as long as we are still involved in the class work/lesson. And I have her for English and Spanish, so those are two of the best periods of the day.

 

[KJ]

Last year, I brought my cube to school, and everybody in my class/grade went crazy.(like all non-cubers do)Eventually, everybody in the school was bringing their cubes so i could solve them(i was at two min back then) and the computer teacher,(who also knew the way of the cube) start a class on how to solve it.

 

[ben1996123]

My statistics teacher has a 2x2 - 5x5 but can't solve his 4x4 or 5x5. He averages about 1:30 on 3x3. On the last day of year 10/9th grade, we had a cubing "lesson" where the rest of the class failed at solving anything/scrambling square 1 and I did 3x3bld.

 

[Ninja Storm]

I've had teachers be amazed... For about the first day. Some teachers don't care, as I'm not even supposed to be in the class(Algebra II; I either already know the stuff or I get it within five minutes), and others have taken it away ~20 times.

For those who are wondering why I bring it, I'm a sophomore. We typically have 5-10 minutes at the end of every class, so I cube then, during announcements, during lunch, and when I walk to and from school.

 

[Juju]

I'm a high school teacher myself. I'm the fastest cuber in the school!

 

[Hovair]

I cube in middle school when I can. I dont cube in class cayse if they see a person with a cube they autimatically take it. Only my math teacher encourages it. And gets really excited when I tell her that I have a comp. She will call the school news lady for the cube comp. Now the news person is my best friend.

 

[Bob]

Yesterday, I met up with one of the teachers I taught with at my last school. I reminded him of the 4x4 parities because he had forgotten how to solve them. At one point, I had > 50% of the staff able to solve the cube.