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.
lol, all you guys should be writing the Catalyst Test Prep questions.
Now that you mentioned it, Kim Kardashian does have a similar relationship to Michelle Obama. Both have U.S. Standard Rail Gages for the beam of their butts and both are cognitively challenged. In addition, both have husbands who aren’t friends of America.
That’s creepy! You think maybe he’s going thru a sex change?
Kim is required to wear a Wide-Load sign, and make the requisite OSHA audible signal when she steps back.
yes, I think Bruce is.
Ouch!
Ouch!
Jimmy Kimmel and his people had some fun with a life-size cutout of that pic, and a snowblower. Do not click if you are easily offended. On the other hand, if you are amused by a middle-school boy level sight gag, be prepared to laugh . . .
http://i.imgur.com/NYwgACi.gif
lol
I was at the drug store today and there he was on the front cover of some tabloid, dressed in drag........
Yuck
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