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Can YOU pass this maths quiz without cheating? (tr)
Daily Mail ^ | Nov 21, 2017 | MARTHA CLIFF

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!

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Oshkalaboomboom

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”.


21 posted on 11/21/2017 4:27:20 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

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.


22 posted on 11/21/2017 4:37:32 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
A bit challenging to do in one's head, but fortunately I'm old enough to have been educated before the days of "new math". 100%. The direct link to the test is here
23 posted on 11/21/2017 4:45:24 AM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

100% in about three minutes, no pencil. Not that difficult.


24 posted on 11/21/2017 4:49:29 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: exDemMom
When I was in collage taking Tech math, we had to use a slide rule...no calculator allowed.

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.

25 posted on 11/21/2017 4:54:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
not that difficult

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.

26 posted on 11/21/2017 5:06:59 AM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

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...:)


27 posted on 11/21/2017 5:11:13 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: grania

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.


28 posted on 11/21/2017 5:12:59 AM PST by rlbedfor
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

It helps if you can do Common Core.


29 posted on 11/21/2017 5:21:22 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: grania

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.


30 posted on 11/21/2017 5:33:18 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

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.


31 posted on 11/21/2017 5:37:43 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Fresh Wind

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.


32 posted on 11/21/2017 5:43:50 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: Sacajaweau
My first day of freshman "Honors Calculus" at SUNY @ Stony Brook, the professor (a FULL visiting professor from Hungary,) walked in and said, "Good morning. Please prove that between every two rational numbers, there's an irrational number, and that between every two irrational numbers, there's a rational number."

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

33 posted on 11/21/2017 6:16:21 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

13/15 and that one I missed was a brain fart, and I’m embarrassed that I missed the other one.


34 posted on 11/21/2017 6:18:17 AM PST by redangus (actually hit her?)
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To: clearcarbon

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.


35 posted on 11/21/2017 6:18:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BlessedBeGod

I had to write them on a separate sheet of paper. It wouldn’t let me click them either


36 posted on 11/21/2017 6:19:14 AM PST by redangus (actually hit her?)
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To: jiggyboy

Funny, the Oxford dictionary didn’t have the definition of “sums” as a colloquialism for any math problem. I expected to see “Chiefly Brit.”


37 posted on 11/21/2017 6:20:44 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sacajaweau

“I remember my joy the first time I solved for 6 unknowns”

Had to fight the guys off with a stick after that?


38 posted on 11/21/2017 6:23:55 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Got them all, without paper & pencil.
I hated math with a passion.
I chose Biology to avoid arithmetic.


39 posted on 11/21/2017 7:33:34 AM PST by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: rlmorel

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.


40 posted on 11/21/2017 7:43:52 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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