This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
Where is my safe place? This kind of word problem threatens me!
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!
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.
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.
Ever since Dewey, education has been about teaching the masses to initiate social changes and to fit in a democratic socialist society rather than teaching them to think.