Nov 22 2009It's No Spider: Pokémon Battle Algebra
Future college dropout Matthew didn't know how to work out problem #1 on a recent algebra quiz, so instead he filled the space with an amateur sketch of Charizard attempting to burninate (Trogdor tie-in FTW) the answer out of the ruins of his ineptness. Unfortunately, the teacher came back and PWN'd Matthew's Charizard with an even worse drawing of Blastoise (which may or may not actually be a flea). Wow guys, is this what higher education has come to -- Pokémon math battles? Because that's awesome if it has.
Pokémon Calculus Fail [albotas]
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Reader Comments
1. CyKosis - November 22, 2009 1:29 PM
first
2. Um - November 22, 2009 1:33 PM
They're both drawn so poorly and the hand writing is nearly the same...
I wanna say this is fake.
3. ~☻,_∫∫ ∕∕-][ Ỵ ([¦¦ ([]) ][-¦¦ ☻~ - November 22, 2009 1:39 PM
i wanna say GAY
4. Mr. Anderson - November 22, 2009 1:39 PM
Fake, same terrible handwriting...
5. Atd - November 22, 2009 1:41 PM
LMAO where was this teacher when i was in school. At least he/she knows how to have fun
6. tiffanybakescakes - November 22, 2009 1:50 PM
yeah uhhm... this is tottaly fake.
7. Erik - November 22, 2009 2:01 PM
This is linear algebra, not calculus...
8. blueIntegral - November 22, 2009 2:09 PM
This isn't fake, I'm in this kids class at Georgia Tech.
9. nathan - November 22, 2009 2:13 PM
nathan
10. hasabrain - November 22, 2009 2:18 PM
Obvious fake ... the handwriting and drawings are the same style ... the dumbass has just used a different colour pen. I think that makes this at least a triple fail?
@nathan cool story bra'
11. victor - November 22, 2009 2:19 PM
FAKE same handwriting would have been more believable if the writing wasent so crappy on the teachers part
the letter f matches the f on the teachers responce almost perfectly FAILED they should have changed up the handwriting
12. Billy Rapture - November 22, 2009 2:32 PM
Spelling fail GW.
Alegebra?
Dude, stop drinking so early.
It doesn't matter if, "It's 5 'o clock somewhere".
13. Rachel - November 22, 2009 2:40 PM
The fakeness would explain why the mathematical comment above the teacher's drawing doesn't make sense. It's a good question, though. Maybe I'll use it for the linear algebra class I'm teaching next quarter.
14. Alright alright... It is jaja :( - November 22, 2009 2:49 PM
Where's Daisy !!! ???
15. oh man - November 22, 2009 2:54 PM
On slow news days, just sleep in.
16. Joe - November 22, 2009 3:02 PM
uh oh.
I'm losing respect for geekologie for posting something so obviously fake...........
17. yessir :) - November 22, 2009 3:14 PM
i bet this kid reads mylifeisaverage.com and wanted to try and be the "cool" the kids on this site are.
18. om3ga - November 22, 2009 3:23 PM
lame. i drew an anarchy stencil and a swastika on my maths paper and got in trouble. and beat up. no-one saw the irony of it all. no wonder i wanted to go columbine every day i was there.
19. annie - November 22, 2009 3:25 PM
Definitely the same handwriting.. check out the "z" in Chariz.. whatever that there pokeman's name is
20. Mattamatics - November 22, 2009 3:55 PM
Water Cannon isn't even a Pokemon move. Hello, duh.
Also, I'm a high school math teacher, and if a student ever drew this on an exam, I would give them an A.
21. Matt - November 22, 2009 4:00 PM
MATT DAMON!
22. Nakahi70 - November 22, 2009 4:59 PM
What a fail =\, Is his answer correct thought (in red)????
23. jaime - November 22, 2009 5:17 PM
he could have at least asked a friend to forge the teacher part...
24. soggymail - November 22, 2009 6:01 PM
A solitary killer, the firetruck staljs his prey..
FAKE!!
You can tell his name isnt really matthew as it has been written like he only writes him on his bestfriends birthday card, and what he was really trying to write was george.
The rest however is obviously real, only a true teacher would write charizard the exact same was as a pupil!
25. KEVVERRROOONNNOOO - November 22, 2009 6:38 PM
DIGIMON is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY Cooler.IDK.......... just sayin..
26. KEVVERRROOONNNOOO - November 22, 2009 6:42 PM
His name is written very clear and neat but it looks like steven hawking wrote the rest using a pen in his mouth.
BTW, clearly fake, who crosses their Z's? ITS VERY UNCOMMON! Now im all upset.
27. same handwriting - November 22, 2009 8:46 PM
same handwriting
28. rad to the power of me - November 22, 2009 9:06 PM
so sad but so true....upon a deeper look....fake :'(
I wanted to go back to school just to match crappy drawings with this teach. because you know a drawing of wolverine would immediately own all!
FYI one of the all time best links I've ever posted
29. eckopet - November 22, 2009 9:27 PM
What if maybe the teacher was taunting the student by copying his horrible handwriting? u got to think about all the possiblities
30. Geekogie - November 23, 2009 1:53 AM
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31. harry stuped - November 23, 2009 3:40 AM
bet the teacher is a geek to, or he had help from his kids...
32. Jaded Icon - November 23, 2009 7:56 AM
This is fake and shame on him, because this could happen elsewhere but now it's ruined because of you "Matt". FAIL.
33. Mih0 - November 23, 2009 8:48 AM
THERE'S NO LYING ON THE INTERNETS, MATTHEW.
You have been warned....(and totally called out.)
34. Matt-Zilla - November 23, 2009 9:53 AM
dunno if it's real, but if it were and that were my math teacher, we would ride dark, powerful steeds into the dense fog of the unknown and crush all with our pokemans banter...............word
35. clarazinet - November 23, 2009 11:16 AM
i cross my z's too!
36. Daisy - November 23, 2009 12:23 PM
FAKE!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its fake, the shadows are all wrong.
This looks like the scene from the movie Never Back Down where Baja wrote on a paper and was a different colored paper in the next scene.
37. cubicleboy04 - November 23, 2009 4:16 PM
and then Trogdor comes in the niiiiiiight! Lol! I love that shit.
38. Me, Duh! - November 23, 2009 5:15 PM
No, no, no. This is real. Only because I love the participants involved in this outcome so much, I refuse to believe the it is fake. This is so awesome and
I wish I had thought of it. Therefore, it is real lol. And who the fuck said Dickimon/Digimon was better? WTF?!? In what universe is that true?
39. Tojo - November 23, 2009 10:22 PM
@38 The Digital Universe!!!
40. bob - November 24, 2009 12:19 PM
Seriously, guys, you think the handwriting is the same? I grade papers a lot and see handwriting styles that look very similar. One of the tricks to telling them apart is to look for particular letters and see if the stroke method is the same. The p strokes are clearly different for example. A few other letters are also done with different styles. I have handwriting that's as similar as these samples are to other people in my lab. I have to sometimes do a double take and check and see if I wrote something or someone else did.
41. Ickorus - November 25, 2009 9:59 AM
@ 36
Oh dear god its back.
42. I-Kill-Bambi's - November 25, 2009 1:38 PM
@40 shut up troll
43. Cindy - November 26, 2009 6:02 AM
For anyone who's curious, the answer is a=2.
44. huntermoon - November 28, 2009 12:43 PM
The handwriting is NOT the same. look closely at the 'C','I', and 'e'. they're different. Lol, i wish i had that teacher.
45. pana it damn su isn - November 29, 2009 11:25 PM
the L's are curved in opposite directions, im not saying its real bu its damn sure not the same person
46. Mezzo - November 30, 2009 5:54 PM
I remember doing these kinds of things in High School. And I actually got points for them too!
47. DH - December 2, 2009 4:25 PM
got some mad detective skillz, the blog commenters do
48. Brian - December 2, 2009 7:31 PM
@47.... Thanks, Yoda.