Posted on 01/09/2008 3:30:42 AM PST by mattstat
There was an old, and sadly funny joke about the Evolution of Math Quizzes that went like this:
1960sA logger cuts and sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is four-fifths of that amount. What is his profit?
1970s New-math
A logger exchanges a set (L) of lumber for a set (M) of money. The cardinality of Set M is 100. The set C of production costs contains 20 fewer points. What is the cardinality of Set P of profits?
1980s
A logger cuts and sells a truckload of lumber for $100. Her cost is $80, her profit is $20. Find and circle the number 20.
1990s
An unenlightened logger cuts down a beautiful stand of 100 trees in order to make a $20 profit. Write an essay explaining how you feel about this as a way to make money. Topic for discussion: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel?
Ha ha ha ha! Right?
Unfortunately, wrong. For here...
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Someone ought to tell the Germans that they are plagiarizing. If they aren’t shamed by political correctness, then maybe they’d be shamed by an accusation of plagiarism.
Ping for later.
Actually plagiarism isn't really that horrid. Now being late or incompentent is shameful. I am not joking. Give a German crap for being incompetent at the task for which they have been trained and it makes them crazy. Owning a poorly trained dog is also shameful.
bmpo
A blogger has a site that gets 100K hits per day with an average 10MB file download. Her web hosting and domain registration fees originally cost $100 per month, but now her ISP wants to structure her at 12 cents per GB bandwidth. Should she move the site? Topic for discussion: What about sidebar ads as an alternative? Bonus question: What IS it with Britney? Like, elaborate.
There is never anything funny about math.
LOL
Two plus two equals five for very large values of two.
Bump
Now THAT’s funny!
Chuck Norris wears Jack Bauer pajamas. :-)
What an excellent website. Bookmarked it. Thanks.
Or very small values of five.
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