Posted on 06/01/2016 12:06:45 PM PDT by rickmichaels
"Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in the gang. There are 20 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knocked up?"
"Leroy has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?"
These are a couple of gang-related math questions that appeared on a Grade 8 test in Alabama.
Others included references to hos and ammunition.
Some of the students thought the questions were funny. But their parents weren't laughing.
"I couldn't believe it," Erica Hall, a mother of one of the students at Burns Middle School, told local affiliate Fox10.
She and others complained to the school.
The unnamed teacher - who is in her final year before retirement - has been suspended pending an investigation.
But she apparently did not write the test. Similar versions of the test have been circulating for decades through the southern States.
That was the golden finger award to the school district.
Dateline 1995: Parents livid over fake math questions...
New year, same crap. Who cares.
I need to know how much the dope was stepped on to know the figures
There are some who would say that these questions help to make math a reality for some of the students. And that anyone who thinks otherwise is suffering from white privilege.
Stay classy, Alabama.
And in doing the math, Antonio got rooked for $6.5 more per gram as an 8-ball than Juan paid per gram.
I don’t know if this is true but it’s damn funny.
I am reminded of the math questions given to a tribe (Azande?) in Africa, and the intelligent logic the villagers used, though nothing that works for pure mathematics. “If you had seven cows and Uholo had six cows, and he took your seven cows, how many cows would he have?”
The villager’s answer would be something like “None! Of course the village would take away his cows if he was caught stealing!”
Probably started when activists started clamoring for "black" math.
There are some software applications used in schools now where students make up their own quizzes to share with the class. This may be one of those.
Retarded way to ask a question.
btw the answer is 20%.
Could not resist.
An eight ball for 320? Man, when I was in grade school it was 100 a gram. /s
bump
Hoax, this has been out for 20 plus years
Article reads like an Oakland, CA math test.
Me bad.
That’s why Leroy dead and my man Antonio in with 35 to Life.
We got something similar back in the days of the blue/purple mimeograph copied tests, ie, early 80's. It was just funny back then.
Since before 1984.
Ok, perhaps they’d like this one better.
Seymour has an annual membership to the Yacht Club, which costs $10,000/year.
He also has investments in mutual funds in the total of $200,000. What interest rate would his investments have to earn in order to use the interest to pay for his annual membership?
1. Teaching Math In the 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 the 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 the 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 the 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 the 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 their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it’s ok.)
6. Teaching Math In the 2000s:
If you have special needs or just feel you need assistance because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, childhood memories, criminal background, then don’t answer. The correct answer will be provided for you. There are no wrong answers.
7. Teaching Math In 2011:
Un hachero vende una carrtada de madera para 100 pesos. El costo de la producciones es 80 pesos. Cuanto dinero ha hecho?
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