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Common Core Question Asks: "There are 25 Sheep and 5 Dogs in a Flock. How Old is the Shepherd?"
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| 10/17/14
| Aurelius
Posted on 10/17/2014 11:21:49 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: RJS1950
There used to be a puzzler printed in the newspapers that I read. There would be 5 or 6 statements of the order of , “Chloe wore a blue dress, and Sam likes fried shrimp”. From these questions, you were supposed to deduce who had killed James.
Some were harder than others, but all were solvable. I know because I solved them. But this question is not, and only a fool would consent to teach this to children.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:56:15 AM PDT
by
chesley
(Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
To: Dilbert San Diego
To: bagman
Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:57:34 AM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
I’d bet that you are wrong.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:58:15 AM PDT
by
chesley
(Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
To: therightliveswithus
If it takes 25 pumpkins to fill a lamp post, how many board-feet in a brush pile?
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:59:39 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
To: therightliveswithus
When I was a kid we got “Is it shorter to New York or by bus?”
Answer is intuitively obvious to even a causal observer
“43, because ice cream has no bones.
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:00:00 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
To: SoothingDave
If a rooster lays an egg directly on the top of a pointed roof, which way does the egg roll? Roosters don't lay eggs, hens do, but I'm sure somewhere there is a government agency that wants to change that in the name of gender equality.
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:02:45 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:02:50 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
To: therightliveswithus
He is 2014 years old.
Where’s my prize?
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:02:50 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: therightliveswithus
And the people who devised this dreck are operating with the same caliber brainpower [rimfire] are also running much of the government.
No wonder everything's FUBAR!
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:04:24 PM PDT
by
W.
(The 0bama Administration in a baseball metaphor: No runs, all drips and many errors!)
To: therightliveswithus
142 if he lived in old testament times
37 if he lives in current times
To: therightliveswithus
"There are 25 sheep and 5 dogs in a flock. How old is the shepherd?" "The age of the shepherd is irrelevant. Sheep are irrelevant. Dogs are irrelevant.
Your children will be assimilated."
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:10:16 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The queen is their slave.)
To: ASOC
Or:
Q: Why is an orange?
A: It's a motorcycle, because a telephone pole doesn't have four doors.
To: SoothingDave
An African or a European rooster?
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:11:20 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
what’s the difference between a duck? One legs both the same.
To: therightliveswithus
Common Core Question Asks: "There are 25 Sheep and 5 Dogs in a Flock. How Old is the Shepherd?" Not enough information:
1. Is the shepherd a muzzie; and
2. are he and any of the sheep in a "relationship"?
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:14:06 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
To: SoothingDave
How many animals did Moses have on the ark?
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:17:22 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: therightliveswithus
The “solution pathway” is simple. Pick a random number between 10 and 100. That is the shepherd’s age.
Logic: since the information given in the question is completely irrelevant to the solution, no number you give is any more than a guess anyway. There is no right or wrong answer, and your answer cannot be proven wrong unless the teacher can prove that the shepherd is in fact some other age. Which I challenge him to do given only the same information the student was given.
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:18:51 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: therightliveswithus
The correct answer is:
“Pay me $5,000, or I report you to the police for taking drugs in school.”
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:20:22 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: therightliveswithus
Between the age of 0 and 1000.
Reasoning: Age must be a positive real number. It must be less than 1,000 because the oldest person recorded as living was less than 1,000 years old.
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