Topic: Teaching Maths

[cb750k7]

 
1. Teaching Maths In 1970

 

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for £1000.

His cost of production is 4/5 of the selling price.

What is his profit?

 

 

2. Teaching Maths In 1980

 

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for £1000.

His cost of production is 4/5 of the selling price, or £800.

What is his profit?

 

 

3. Teaching Maths In 1990

 

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for £1000.

His cost of production is £800.

Did he make a profit?

 

 

4. Teaching Maths In 2000

 

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for £1000.

His cost of production is £800 and his profit is £200.

Your assignment: Underline the number 200.

 

 

5. Teaching Maths In 2008

 

A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is totally selfish

and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the

preservation of our woodlands.

He does this so he can make a profit of £200. What do you think of

this way of making a living?

Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did

the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes?

(There are no wrong answers.

 

If you are upset about the plight of the animals in question

counselling will be available)

 

 

6. Teaching Maths 2018

 

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الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟

 

 


 

[Grumpol]

Sad but true, damned funny though

[Steve F]

Yes it IS sad.  I can't stand the fact that the teaching methods recently have detertiorated so.

[nickjtc]

Ouch!!......................but possibly true.

[dpen]

In the same vein - computers crashed in the local supermarket the other day - idots couldn't add up a few simple items & make change in their heads

[Steve F]

In the same vein - computers crashed in the local supermarket the other day - idots couldn't add up a few simple items & make change in their heads

I hear you on that one!  Couple of weeks ago, I stopped at the local OfficeMax to pick up some paper for the printer...total was $3.84, I gave the guy $4.00, he keys in $5 in the register by mistake......he had to use a calculator to figure the change      OMG!

[Sam Green Racing]

K7, your dates are 10 years behind the times if you lived in England.

Sam.

[mrbreeze]

In the same vein - computers crashed in the local supermarket the other day - idots couldn't add up a few simple items & make change in their heads

I hear you on that one!  Couple of weeks ago, I stopped at the local OfficeMax to pick up some paper for the printer...total was $3.84, I gave the guy $4.00, he keys in $5 in the register by mistake......he had to use a calculator to figure the change      OMG!

Thats just so sad!!!!!....but unfortunately true.I've seen it myself!!

[seaweb11]

New employees in stores spend more time getting the machine to tell them how much change to give you than just giving you your change.........Uh math.........uh NO,,,,,why do you you think I work here?

[DarkRider]

Unfortunitly people tend to be like that here too...Thats why if im in a store that has a self checkout such as Walmart or Canadian tire i usually use the self checkout instead. Its probably due to these sorts of problems that they even made the self checkout machines lol. About 90% of the time i usually have the total figured out in my head or am very close and doesnt take much more then a second for me to figure out the dif. But nowadays half of these kids behind the tills expect the machines to do their work for them...

[nickjtc]

Remember when the checkout person had to enter each price by hand? Or the days when cash registers were still used??

[DarkRider]

ummmm yep!! lol

[edbikerii]

Anybody else try to buy a soda or some gasoline during the blackout of 2003?  Damned "digital world" nearly shut down.

[Steve F]

Remember when the checkout person had to enter each price by hand? Or the days when cash registers were still used??

I remember when McDonalds and Radio Shack orders were hand written on small sheets, prices written down and added manually, tax figured, and totaled....long before calculators!
Paper and pencil was all they had...how things have changed! (and my age as well  )

[Ecosse]

I suck at math but still managed to work at a speed shop where we used a cash register. And, receipts were written out by hand on those little sheets in addition to the register slip. He was an old fashion kinda guy (rest his soul) and ran his business like that up to the day he died. Only a few years ago.

Liked the joke though!

[74cb750]

My wife works with huge $ amounts deciding whom to rebate or charge $10,000-250,000 at her insurance company using calculators etc.
When using cash she never notices if she is short changed! Weird,non?

[medic09]

I can still remember shopping in the shuk in Jerusalem, and  having the shop keeper add up lists of items with an abacus faster than I can with calculator!

Many of our new nurses are taught only to do their drug calculations with a calculator, and drip calculations with the computer on the IV pump.  And what happens if you haven't one or the other?  I pride myself on doing it all manually before I use the machine to check me.  Don't want to lose the ability.

[Ecosse]

Math was always my weakest 'skill'.

My grandmother could work out calculations faster in her head than I could with a calculator. Remember the ones with red LED displays and nice fake wood grain on the sides? Texas Instruments I believe.