This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
Posted on 05/17/2016 9:00:11 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
For those who continue to wonder how the most powerful, most productive, most envied and most successful nation in history can be one short step from the 3rd class status of a Marxist dictatorship.
1. Teaching Math in 1950s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
2. Teaching Math in 1960s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Math in 1970s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
4. Teaching Math in 1980s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Math in 1990s A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and Inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down...
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Where is my safe place? This kind of word problem threatens me!
That is truly our wonderful public education system brought to us by the Federal Department of Education...Thank you, Jimmy Carter, you worthless SOB...
close, but wrong!
these questions assume the students can still read
nowadays, it is necessary for the teacher to administer such tests verbally
The NEA, institutionalizing mediocrity since 1857.
BFLR
Funny and sad because it’s true.
If a 60 days note of $840 is discounted at a bank at 4 1/2 percent what are the proceeds?
Base on commercial year of 360, 1/6 of 4.5% subtracted from face value.
Acknowledge: Jersey City High School in those years was equivalent of College - BUT whose fault is it?!?!
This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
...these questions assume the students can still read...
Make the test really difficult. Test in cursive writing. Heads will pop like bubble wrap.
Now this is one that really challenged me - 1912 8th Grade Test from Bullitt County, Ky.
A school enrolled 120 pupils and the number of boys was two-thirds of the number of girls. How many of each sex were enrolled?
WOW!
One thing to remember about comparisons to years past, the number of subjects taught then versus what is required currently.
Is transgender bathroom propriety part of Social Studies or Sex Education or Health & Hygiene or Gym Class?
Damn. Facts are hard to argue with.
I wonder what the statistics say.
Mark Twain, “There are lies, damned lies and Statistics.”
#15 ~ >>>Mark Twain, “There are lies, damned lies and Statistics.”<<<
Mark Twain attributed the quote to Benjamin Disraeli
“I was deducing from the above that I have been slowing down steadily in these thirty-six years, but I perceive that my statistics have a defect: three thousand words in the spring of 1868, when I was working seven or eight or nine hours at a sitting, has little or no advantage over the sitting of to-day, covering half the time and producing half the output. Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force:
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Nobody knows for sure, but possible authors are investigated at this website ~
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm
How many snowflakes does it take to fill the forest?
Teaching math in the 2000’s: You sold out your lumber business to a private equity firm for 4/5th the value of the company. The private equity firm fires the whole staff, and replaces them with cheap imported labor. The overhead cost goes from 4/5ths to 1/5ths. Calculate the gains achieved by the equity firm, including gains achieved by dumping former employees onto the welfare roles, and reneging on contracted benefits.
Teaching math in the 2010’s: You have a private equity firm who has a lumber business on the books. You want to cash out so you can gamble some more in the stock market. Calculate how much debt you can load the company up with, calculate how much equity you can loot out of the company, and calculate how much a sucker chinese buyer will pay for all of the forest that the lumber company has rights to log, courtesy of the federal government lackeys you bribed to gain access to. Don't forget to factor in the bribes and payoffs in you equations.
72 girls and 48 boys. Of course today we could expect that 0.1% of both genders feel like they are the other so that makes the math more difficult.
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