Posted on 07/10/2023 7:40:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have that on a t-shirt. Every so often someone gets it and comments.
Algebraic topology in the sixth grade is a bit much.
If you haven’t started teaching yourself a lot of math while you are in high school, you aren’t going to be a serious math type. Ramanujan had a late start and even he couldn’t make it.
“Ghetto Math Proficiency Exam”
City of New York, Borough of Bronx
High School Math Proficiency Exam
Name:____________________ Gang:_________________
1. Darnel has an AK-47 with a 40-round clip. If he shoots 13 times during each drive-by shooting and misses 6 out of 10 shots, how many drive by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
2. Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine, and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Little Mikey for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of cocaine if he does not cut it?
3. Rufus is pimping 3 girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800 per day crack habit?
4. Dino wants to cut his half-pound of heroin to make a 20% profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
5. Willis gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy and $100 for a 4x4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs and 3 4x4s, how many Chevys will he have to steal to make $800?
6. Raoul is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $10,000 for performing the hit. If his common law wife is spending $100 per month, how much will be left when he gets out of prison, and how many years will he get for killing the bitch for spending his money?
7. If the average spray can covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 2 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of paint?
8. Hector knocked up 6 of the girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls has Hector knocked up?
Your math book is a good one.
Percent problems were in basic math at my high school, and were some of the hardest problems the kids had to cope with. We took each section in basic math as individual study with lots of help, to pass the class the kids had to pass each section The other hard part was fractions.
By the way, since one half is the same as two quarters, I allowed both answers to be correct unless the problem asked for lowest terms. My belief is that asking for lowest terms is a teacher’s gimick to make grading easier, and may have led to the idea that there are multiple answers which is false except for this case where I believe two fractions that are equal are also equally correct.
Math should never be boring, but you are correct, this aspect is up to the teacher, and lots of teachers know how to make a subject boring.
The problem with math being intimidating to students is two fold, (1) if you never learned why math problems require what they require you just don’t know what you don’t know. and (2) If you tell your friends you don’t get math and they agree, well then it becomes something you can bond over. I believe lots of people do this brecause its easy and friendly. But it would be so much better if we could have students help each other.
Differential Equations is. It differentiates and that is racist.
How many blacks entered the doctoral programs in math? How many women? Doing so is a CHOICE. Did so few CHOOSE to do so?
Most excellent
You da man.
True that
To”get math” you have to do the homework. If you don’t work the problems (all of them) you’re lost
Bwahahahaha
My 8th grade class in 1958 consisted of 14 boys and 16 girls. Our math teacher ranked the class in math every quarter (he read the ranking aloud to the class). Every quarter the top 10 spots were held by boys.
That does not mean that girls are dumb. I believe that if our English teacher had ranked the class, the results would have been reverse than the math. It simply means that girls and boys are different. A fact that liberals deny.
“Planer” is the definition of circle. The locus of point IN A PLANE equidistant from a central point. If you leave the plane, you begin to define a sphere.
If people want to remain ignorant, I wish them well.
Someone should put that statement on a billboard.
Agreed 100%.
And those students convince themselves they aren't capable of understanding math. They believe the better math students are naturally better at math.
Truth be told, some students are quicker at it. They can visualize it, and they pick up on it more easily... maybe because they were introduced to it early on.
But, all students can do well in math with study and practice.
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