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 "L" of lumber for a set "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 the subset of set M and answer this 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 2000:
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.....=20
Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :
It'd be funny if it wasn't so true Posted by 35TH ED/ed (Member # 1709) on :
No wonder I hated Math . All the teaching of the 60's and70's made my head spin .The "New Math" that they thought of really confused a kid way back then (class of '74)
Posted by blkragss02 (Member # 1801) on :
cytruffle you crack me up! Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :
quote:Originally posted by blkragss02: cytruffle you crack me up!
thengyew, sir!! Posted by DaddySS (Member # 848) on :
Posted by ss_rs_z (Member # 1888) on :
LOL...that was good. Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :
Posted by SS_CarGuy (Member # 2065) on :
And to think they thought that they were teaching "new math" in the 70's...... Posted by DGOETZ (Member # 1846) on :
quote:Originally posted by poSSum: It'd be funny if it wasn't so true
It's funny because its true.
Posted by CamaroSCG (Member # 1591) on :
That's funny.....and scary! BTW, the "new math" includes the numbers "eleventeen" and "twelveteen"
[ 26. September 2003, 11:12 AM: Message edited by: CamaroSCG ]
Posted by Macky (Member # 1427) on :
That is too funny!
Posted by Jana (Member # 2029) on :
That's hillarious... because I hate math. I hate math,....because when it was being taught to me, it was taught in the style as described by the "70's". This was in the 90's. I think they TRIED to confuse students. I reallllllly hate math. Its all about how you word the problem at hand.
Posted by sscamaro (Member # 1330) on :
Glad I learned math in the 50's.
Posted by Daves2002SS (Member # 1719) on :
quote:Originally posted by sscamaro: Glad I learned math in the 50's.
Glad I never learned...... Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :
quote:Originally posted by cytruffle: Teaching Math in 2000:
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?
And what's wrong with this?
[ 26. September 2003, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: Jim Mac ]
Posted by gauSSian (Member # 2027) on :
I love math; it is one of the very few things that separate us from the beasts of the field.
if more math teachers had actually majored in mathematics in college, people would not be so proudly innumerate.
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.The "New Math" that they thought of really confused a kid way back then (class of '74)
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