Posted on 11/21/2014 11:28:21 AM PST by machogirl
Here’s a cheeky way to do math.
Kim Kardashian’s naked butt broke the internet — but now it’s helping to fix students’ understanding of basic geometry.
Catalyst, a test prep company, is using the ultimate semi-circle in its latest pop-culture-inspired questions to get kids primed for the SAT. (See questions below).
Catalyst’s interest in Kardashian’s image from the cover of Paper magazine is not just sexploitation. It’s downright Platonic.
“Kim Kardashian’s backside is almost perfectly circular,” company founder Jared Friedland tells the Daily News. “As soon as we saw that, it occurred to me that we could teach three types of geometry questions.”
And as every eighth grade boy knows, Friedland is talking about circumference, angles and area of a circle. The median age of the test taker is 16, so Kardashian’s naked butt is a perfect topic to cover.
For all three questions, Friedland superimposed circles atop Kardashians’s famous rump — and he must know what he’s doing because 85% of his students improve their scores by at least 200 points when they take a Catalyst course.
Students at Millennium High School in the Financial District were nonplussed by Friedland’s math.
"I could definitely solve it given time, but I think it would be distracting," said William Faba 16.
"It’s definitely a distraction," added Priscilla Pappas, 16. "It wouldn't encourage math it would just encourage discussion about butts and women."
But sometimes such a discussion is exactly what’s needed, added student Lauren Enochs, 15.
"We talked about Kim in my English class," she said. "My teacher used her as an example for the vocabulary word ‘lascivious.’"
It’s not first time pop culture inspired pop quizzes for Friedland. A few years ago, Friedland’s team used before and after shots of Ashlee Simpson’s nose job to quiz students on calculating the slope of a line.
So are you as smart as a 14 year old? Take the test below.
So Kardashian posed that way ‘for the children’?
LOL.
And if needed, it could feed a small African village for 45 days.
Well said!
Libs screaming “War On Women” in 3, 2, 1...
[...crickets...]
She’s had chisel and spackle work done.
Compare her face in the past with her face of today.
I agree. She has headlights also. (size e cup?)
lol
Thank you!
Lots of crickets
I though it was a geography lesson. My bad.
Dunno.
But she began closer to Gwen Stefani original equiment accoutrements.
Point out the 7 continents......and here is one more.
lol
As a lady, and one that had kids, stuff changes shape and moves around if real. Implants don’t move.
lol
This is dumbing down math. “How many cheeks do you see?”
a) one
b) two
c) some other number
There is no wrong answer, but justify your choice.
lol
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