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Teaching mathemathics
« on: September 25, 2009, 05:03:26 AM »
   1. Teaching Maths In 1970

   A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.

   What is his profit?

 

   2. Teaching Maths In 1980

   A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.His cost of production is 80% of the price.

   What is his profit?

 

   3. Teaching Maths In 1990

   A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production is £80.

   How much was his profit?

 

   4. Teaching Maths In 2000

   A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.His cost of production is £80 and his profit is £20.

   Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

 

   5. Teaching Maths In 2005

   A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish andYour assignment: Discuss how might the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit of £20.

 

  6. Teaching Maths In 2009

   A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consulted in the felling licence.

   He is also fined a £100 as his chainsaw is in breach of Health & Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous and could cut something. He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without incident however he does not havethe correct certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be a                 

recividest and habitual criminal.His DNA is sampled and his details circulated throughout all government agencies. He protests and is taken to court and fined another £100

because he is such an easy target.When he is released he returns to find Gypsies have cut down half his wood to build a camp on his land. He tries to throw them off but is arrested, prosecuted for harassing an ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined a  further £100.While he is in jail the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving behind several tons of rubbish and asbestos  sheeting.The forester on release is warned that failure to clear the fly tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence. He complains and is arrested for environmental pollution, breach of the peace and invoiced £12,000 plus VAT for safe disposal costs by a regulated government  contractor.

Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to have to be arrested and fined before he realises that he is never going to make £20 profit by  hard work, give up, sign onto the dole and live off the state for the rest of his life?

 

   7. Teaching Maths In 2010

   A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he can’t get a loan to buy a new lorry because his bank has spent all his and their money on a derivative of securitised debt related to sub-prime mortgages in Alabama and lost the lot with only some government money left to pay a few million  pound bonuses to their senior directors and the traders who made the biggest losses.The logger struggles to pay the £1,200 road tax on his old lorry. However,  as it was built in the 1970s it no longer meets the emissions regulations  and he is forced to scrap it. Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap merchant and put it  back on the road. They undercut everyone on price for haulage and send their cash back home, while claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives. If questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport  them at the government's expense. Following their holiday back home they return to the UK with different  names and fresh girls and start again. The logger protests, is accused of  being a bigoted racist and, as his name is on the side of his old lorry, he is forced to pay £1,500 registration fees as a gang-master. The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as bonuses are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and claim the difference on expenses and allowances. You do the maths.

 

 8. Teaching Maths 2017  أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة ا لانتاج   من   الثمن. ما هو الربح

 
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Re: Teaching mathemathics
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2009, 05:15:17 AM »
And here's

"Teaching Math in the US in 2005"

Un leñador corta un hermoso bosque porque él es egoísta y Su tarea: Discuta cómo puede los pájaros y las ardillas se sienten como que el leñador corta sus hogares justo para una ganancia insignificante de £20.
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Re: Teaching mathemathics
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2009, 06:12:37 AM »
Claro que si, pero eso es solo para estados del sur, no?  ;D
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Re: Teaching mathemathics
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2009, 03:22:09 PM »
Claro que si, pero eso es solo para estados del sur, no?  ;D
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 Clearly that if, but that is alone for southern states, not? 


Not really, In PA (middle of the east coast), most stores have English and Spanish greatings, cautions,etc. displayed every where. If theres a sign that says "dont put your finger in there", right below it it will usually have " puesto puso el dedo adentro".
  It's becoming more and more bi-lingual every where in the US.
 
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Re: Teaching mathemathics
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2009, 11:07:14 AM »
I thought this was supposed to be humor?

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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2009, 12:22:37 AM »
Claro que si!  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Oh, come on..  ;)
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Re: Teaching mathemathics
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2009, 01:53:23 AM »
Seems governments around the world are held in the same distain. :D
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