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.
Ouch! (lol)
Considering that she's married to Kanye West, there ain't enough bleach in the universe to disinfect....
I really wish a meteor would come down and take out all of the Kardashians in one-fell swoop.
This is disgusting and pathetic.
They are nasty. Something skanky about flashing yourself all over. I suppose she and mom are laughing all the way to the bank while Step-Dad Bruce Jenner is turning into a woman.
It’s a sad testimonial to where USA culture has descended.
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:^)
Social Engineering started creeping into the textbooks when my kids were in Junior high, 15 years ago. In Math, questions about the destruction of the rain forest. Another opportunity for reeducation.
lol, Where is the National Organization of Liberal Man-Haters on this?
Correct!
“Her behind is going to be the size of California in a few years.”
I was gonna say, with her badonkadonka this must be a fold-out cover.
One cheek + One cheek = 200lbs of ass
He didn’t get into that. Wonder why? What does a silicon implant weigh?
With a big ol 20 lb. turd squeezin out of that monster.
Haven’t we all seen enough of Kim Kardashian and her body parts? She is WAY OUT of proportion and the only real thing she has going for her is her face.
Plain old blubber. Surprised the Eskimo’s haven’t harpooned her.
Good afternoon.
Is this true? “Bruce Jenner is turning into a woman.”
The Olympian? Is having a “lopadictomy?
Say it ain’t so...
5.56mm
I’m not touching that
Being involved with that family would turn anyone Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
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