CAST:
Woman 1
Woman 2
Guy
SCENE: Three college students are seated on a bench in a hallway, waiting for their class to begin.
WOMAN 1: Most math teachers here are terrible ‘cause they only let you do things their way, you know?
Guy and Woman 2 voice agreement.
WOMAN 2: The guy I have now for algebra? If you use a faulty method, he’ll still count you off for that, even if you get the right answer on his tests.
WOMAN 1: That’s so stupid! I mean, if you get the right answer, isn’t that all that matters?
GUY: Well, in most math problems, there’s more than one right answer, anyway.
WOMAN 1: Right, so shouldn’t it be based on reasoning? If you can make something up that gets you the right answer, that’s what they should grade you on.
WOMAN 2: Yeah, not on being able to understand formulas.
Guy and Woman 1 voice agreement.
CURTAIN
[NOTE: I wrote this play after overhearing several students between classes at school. As painful as it is to say this, I did not make up a single line of dialogue. Yes, there are actually people who think this way. This is exactly why people in the hard sciences often ridicule humanities majors. And this is exactly why we often deserve it.]
