Posted on 11/21/2017 12:58:35 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
For most of us numeracy tests are a distant memory, so you may need to swot up before taking on this tricky quiz. The new test shared by Playbuzz challenges your knowledge of maths, and only a select few will make it to the end unaided. The quiz's creator, Michael Rodgers, claims just three per cent of the population will be able to ace his test without the help of a calculator. The 15 sums include multiplication, subtraction, percentages and division - taking you straight back to childhood maths lessons. Think you're smart enough to pass? Scroll down to take the test. Answers are at the bottom... and no cheating!
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OK - I did them all correctly in my head only using pen & paper to record the answer. Where do I go to claim my 3%-er prize? Is it a pony?? My 4th grade teacher would be so proud of me...
As others have noted, some of the questions didn’t even require arriving at the full answer since the last digit gave away the only possible answer among those offered. In a few years, this won’t even be possible for those polluted with the garbage math known as “Common Core”.
Gee, your way of determining 41 x 21 looks more complicated than mine.
41 x 21 = 41 + 820 ... or 21 + 840
I’ve been doing math in my head since grade school.
100% in about three minutes, no pencil. Not that difficult.
The idea was that we should know ABOUT what the answer should be....and if we had any brains at all, we could figure out the "absolute" answer with pencil and paper.
Not for those of us who actually learned math before there were calculators. I'd be curious about how good Millenials and younger are about manipulating numbers and recognizing things.
I got most of them right doing them in my head, which is amazing to me since growing up, I had to go to summer school for many years for math, and never got better than a C, and that only once.
My parents tried getting me a tutor and everything (Some poor Electrician’s Mate looking for some extra money!) but nothing worked.
When I graduated high school, I couldn’t add or subtract fractions. I had a major mental block with it.
It stayed that way until I took a college level math course in the USN and got personal tutoring from a civilian on the ship I was working with on a project.
At the time, I read a book that taught me how to do figures in my head.
For example, if the problem is 43 x 25, I do 10 x 25 = 250, multiply that by 4, and then add 3 x 25.
That I can do that type of thing in my head is a source of never-ending pride, considering how badly I suffered at math as a kid...:)
The 75% one I got but I did the hard way in my head and it was a bit tricky. Some of the others were easy but tricky.
It helps if you can do Common Core.
In the years B.C. (Before Calculators), you had to know how to keep track of orders of magnitude and have a general sense of whether your answer was reasonable. Most younger folks that I know have never had to do this, so they tend to take whatever comes out of the calculator as unchallenged truth. There are exceptions, though.
Got ‘em all, used a pencil on 2 questions.
Felt bad about it so am having my first cup of coffee now that the Wife is up.
Exactly the reason why “multiple choice” tests are for the lazy teacher’s convenience, not for actually gauging the student’s progress. “
Best math teacher I had in school didn’t give us multiple choice tests and he made us show our work. He was fired after parents complained their kids weren’t passing math. Funny thing was he wasn’t fired because math was too hard for students. He was fired because he had a tutoring business on the side and was accused of making math difficult so parents had to hire him.
My first thought was, "what the heck am I doing here?" Happily, only 3 students were able to actually complete it. I did pretty well though, got a B+ in the class.
Mark
13/15 and that one I missed was a brain fart, and I’m embarrassed that I missed the other one.
Same. Slowed down on the last one and finally threw in the towel. Got all the others right via “mental math.” None particularly hard.
My daily dose of Alzheimer’s fighting.
I had to write them on a separate sheet of paper. It wouldn’t let me click them either
Funny, the Oxford dictionary didn’t have the definition of “sums” as a colloquialism for any math problem. I expected to see “Chiefly Brit.”
“I remember my joy the first time I solved for 6 unknowns”
Had to fight the guys off with a stick after that?
Got them all, without paper & pencil.
I hated math with a passion.
I chose Biology to avoid arithmetic.
That’s exactly how I did the problems about “odd” numbers in my head. Break them up into smaller parts basically and add up the simpler sums. It’s the best way to do such problems mentally I think.
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