Kim Kardashian’s butt on Paper magazine cover can help kids do math.

New York Daily News ^ | November 19, 2014 | Jeanette Settembre , Zoe Lake

[machogirl]

Here’s a cheeky way to do math.

Kim Kardashian’s naked butt broke the internet — but now it’s helping to fix students’ understanding of basic geometry.

Catalyst, a test prep company, is using the ultimate semi-circle in its latest pop-culture-inspired questions to get kids primed for the SAT. (See questions below).

Catalyst’s interest in Kardashian’s image from the cover of Paper magazine is not just sexploitation. It’s downright Platonic.

“Kim Kardashian’s backside is almost perfectly circular,” company founder Jared Friedland tells the Daily News. “As soon as we saw that, it occurred to me that we could teach three types of geometry questions.”

And as every eighth grade boy knows, Friedland is talking about circumference, angles and area of a circle. The median age of the test taker is 16, so Kardashian’s naked butt is a perfect topic to cover.

For all three questions, Friedland superimposed circles atop Kardashians’s famous rump — and he must know what he’s doing because 85% of his students improve their scores by at least 200 points when they take a Catalyst course.

Students at Millennium High School in the Financial District were nonplussed by Friedland’s math.

"I could definitely solve it given time, but I think it would be distracting," said William Faba 16.

"It’s definitely a distraction," added Priscilla Pappas, 16. "It wouldn't encourage math it would just encourage discussion about butts and women."

But sometimes such a discussion is exactly what’s needed, added student Lauren Enochs, 15.

"We talked about Kim in my English class," she said. "My teacher used her as an example for the vocabulary word ‘lascivious.’"

It’s not first time pop culture inspired pop quizzes for Friedland. A few years ago, Friedland’s team used before and after shots of Ashlee Simpson’s nose job to quiz students on calculating the slope of a line.

So are you as smart as a 14 year old? Take the test below.

[machogirl]

Speechless. I'd have been embarrassed to write a Test Prep question like this. Why no Women's groups upset? I thought this had to be satire, but this Company is in California, the CEO used to be a speechwriter for SNL when Al Franken was there. I learned as a student, parent, teacher that you sometimes need to have the student find the relevancy, but this is OUT OF LINE, perverse (more of a high school guy joke activity), and speaks VOLUMES about the Educational standards.

[machogirl]

More than one source, Vanity Fair also.
What’s next? Bra size?

www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/2014/11/kim-kardashian-nude-paper-magazine-spread-sat-math-pr]ep

Catalyst Test Prep

http://catalystprep.com/team

[nascarnation]

Yet another reason to hate OJ.....

[machogirl]

Picture of “sample questions” at the links.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kim-kardashians-nude-paper-magazine-shots-being-used-in-sat-prep-20142011

[texas booster]

And yet the guy wearing a cartoon print shirt that runs a major space program, is a danger to women?

Nuts.

[machogirl]

I remember what I was doing the day he was in the Bronco and the day he was acquitted.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, but after that fiasco, the girls are mainly famous for dating famous people, and starring in home porn vids.

[fhayek]

Pi R squared, but butts are round.

[machogirl]

No kidding. I didn’t even notice the guy’s shirt.

Another article about this company and their “pop culture” SAT test questions. Sept. 2014

“My premise was, ‘What if Jon Stewart and Conan O’Brien got together and wrote an SAT prep course?’” says Catalyst Prep founder Jared Friedland, who got the ideas while writing for a Hollywood animation studio by day and teaching college prep courses in the evening.

“There was always this warm-up period where kids were talking about movies or television, and then there’d be this abrupt transition to Pythagoras Theorem,” he says. “It occurred to me that these things don’t have to be mutually exclusive.”......

http://business.time.com/2012/09/17/college-test-prep-gets-a-laugh/

[machogirl]

Just Bizarre and inappropriate.

[nascarnation]

Without the OJ crime, I suspect Bob Kardashian would just be another unknown dead lawyer and his spawn would be competing with SoCal illegals for menial jobs.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Fundaments are fundamental!

[Buckeye McFrog]

If I have four donuts for breakfast, and three pieces of cheesecake for desert, how many pants sizes will I go up by Monday?

[boycott]

Her behind is going to be the size of California in a few years. It will be scary.

[DoughtyOne]

When they say her butt is shown, that's pretty vague.  The woman is a total ass.  Which part did they show?


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[DoughtyOne]

Check that. It’s already scarey.

[machogirl]

Shock! The guy makes fun of George W. Bush for his prep tests. Wonder if any lefties are targets of his questions? Any questions about the 57 States we have (courtesy of Obama the intellect)?

“To keep the material current, Friedland and his team rewrite the curriculum annually and tweak it by region. Poking fun at former President George W. Bush’s grammar gets laughs in the Northeast, says Friedland, but it doesn’t always sit well in, say, Texas.”

http://business.time.com/2012/09/17/college-test-prep-gets-a-laugh/

[TexasFreeper2009]

I saw the pictures... kind of skanky if you ask me. Wouldn't touch that even with a wetsuit on!

[machogirl]

lol, Michelle’s SAT Prep-Questions.

[machogirl]

Strangely symmetrical and she claims to have had no plastic surgery on any part of her body or face. LOL