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Hi, here's how arithmetic has changed in our lifetime

Subject: Teaching Maths

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 and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habit of animals or the preservation of our woodlands.
Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might 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 and Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous an d could cut something.
He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without incident however he does not have the correct certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be a recidivist 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 leaving BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving behind several tonnes 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 governments 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 bonus's 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 الانتاج من الثمن. ما هو الربح ل
 
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2017 is a bit far fetched.

It will be here by 2012, just in time for the olympics.
 
Teacher asked little Johnny...

T:"If I gave you 2 apples and then I gave you another 2 apples, how many apples would you have?"

LJ:"5 apples Miss.."

T:"No Johnny, that's wrong. Lets try this another way.. If I gave you 2 bananas and then I gave you another 2 bananas, how many bananas would you have?"

LJ:"4 bananas Miss.."

T:"That's right Johnny. 2 + 2 = 4.. so why did you say 5 when I used apples as the example? "

LJ:"I've got an apple in my lunchbox for dinnertime.."
 
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Class room full of school kids, little Johnny at back of class has a bag of aniseed balls...bag bursts...aniseed balls scatter everywhere, teacher jumps up and says 'who's got little black balls' Freddie at the front, says ... ..quick as a flash......Sammy Davis junior miss.. ;)
 
yet conny's not gone into one

Think you are getting me mixed up with someone else, I ain't got no predjudices, to me, a Scouser, a spade is a spade! :LOL: :LOL:

Can't remember the recent poster who flipped over things like this, will backtrack and see if I can find him.
 
BNP thread

Nope, never posted on that one.
Posted on the one about marriage, I think it was, guy was Olympic high diver girl was a prostitute working both sides of the Mersey.

If you read that you would see I have a sense of humour and also a lot of pride in being a Scouser.

Ah, hang on. Think I recall one where I said something along the lines of there being too many over here, but, if I am right, I also said something to do with no objections if they speak our language, learn our customs, hold down a legitimate job and pay taxes. Can't think of the thread title though. Help me out.
 
conny
Hope senility isn't getting the better of me :( i thought you posted along the lines of "mods, lose this thread what will visitors think etc" or is my memory going along with everything else :LOL:
 
Nope, not me.
It was Bolo, thread is currently on page 3 and Bolo's request is the last one on page 5.

Senility is great, you have an excuse for getting things wrong. :LOL: :LOL:
 
Nope, not me.
It was Bolo, thread is currently on page 3 and Bolo's request is the last one on page 5.

Senility is great, you have an excuse for getting things wrong. :LOL: :LOL:
Use it myself, just look vacant, then five minutes later, ask them the question they asked you. :LOL:

Wotan
 
Use it myself, just look vacant, then five minutes later, ask them the question they asked you.

Are you my twin or did you just go to the same school?
:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
 
Use it myself, just look vacant, then five minutes later, ask them the question they asked you.

Are you my twin or did you just go to the same school?
:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
My other half, used to be a psychiatric nurse, she still has the habit of couching the same question in two different ways, when I don't respond as she wants, it's me who's being sarcastic. :cry: :cry: can't win.
 
Sorry conny :oops: hold on, if you're losing the plot and I'm not, then I've got nothing to apologise for you old git :LOL:
 
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