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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Krusher on August 08, 2003, 02:26:14 PM
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Teaching Math in 1950:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is 4/5
of the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math in 1960:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is 4/5
of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math in 1970:
A logger exchanges a set of "L" of lumber for a set of "M" of money.
The
cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make
100 dots
representing the elements of the set "M." The set "C," the cost of
production,
contains 20 fewer points than set "M." Represent the set "C" as subset
of set
"M" and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the
set "P" of
profits?
Teaching Math in 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is $80,
and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math in 1990:
By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do
you
think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation
after
answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels "feel"
as the logger
cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.
Teaching Math in 2002:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is
$120. How does Arthur Andersen determine that his profit margin is $60?
Teaching Math in 2010:
El hachero vende un camion carga por $100. La cuesta de production
es........
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I always sort of thought of math as being like a religion. You couldn't hold the equations, they weren't really tangible, you just sort of took it on faith. You trusted that what your math teacher was telling you was true and you regurgitated it for the exam, kind of like what you did during Vacation Bible School.
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You never took geometry?
MiniD
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i dont get it
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Well I got it, thanks for the smile :)
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great joke.
and gofaster, are you nuts? math is the only subject where you can plug the rules into any set of numbers, mix 'm up check it forwards and backwards and check the formula for solid.
you want subjective goto english class. when they lay down a 'rule' (more of a guidline really) in english class there is always an exception (I before E except after C, and even that isn't always true)
had to trust? go to history, interesting but when you get right down to it you have to go on faith that what you are getting is fact and not school board aproved propaganda.
even in P.E. you usually had a ref or umpire making a judgement call.
math is the only subject you can really trust.
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shouldn't discussion be deferred to Mathman to shed light on the evolution/degredation of math exams since the 1950's?
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"you just sort of took it on faith."
To truly understand math, you have to understand why the equations work; that way the only thing you have to take on faith is the fact that the numbers exist at all.