Maths Lessons
MattC59
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Subject: Teaching Maths in Britain
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 habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands.
Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might feel as the logger cuts 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 and 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 again 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 leave 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 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
الانتاج 80 من
الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟= 20
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 habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands.
Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might feel as the logger cuts 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 and 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 again 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 leave 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 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
الانتاج 80 من
الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟= 20
Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved
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Sub-Daily Mail claptrap.0
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Great!0
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Mattsaw wrote:Bloody immigrants, coming over here and taking our maths lessons!
Er, didn't they pretty much invent maths in the first place?0 -
Le Commentateur wrote:Mattsaw wrote:Bloody immigrants, coming over here and taking our maths lessons!
Er, didn't they pretty much invent maths in the first place?
Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved0 -
Maths in the 1970s
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Maths in 2010
Differentiation, Integration, Logarithms, simultaneous equations, computing algorithms, calculus, probability studies.
People from the 70's opinion of themselves
Think the sun shines out of their posteriors despite the fact they have all borrowed money they don't have, started several dozen wars for questionable reasons, managed not to sort out the energy problems, done nothing but reproduce to a level where there is no room anymore.
People born in the 90's opinion of themselves
Constantly being put down by the small minded idiots of the generation that preceded them, who actually believe that the country is getting worse in such ways as violent crime, wealth, taxation, despite the fact actually looking at any set of statistics (which aren't on the front page of the daily mail) will tell them otherwise.
By the way thanks for the fact that you've screwed up the environment, let famine go on for years after it needed to, eroded relations with several very large parts of the world, its muchly appreciated.i ride a hardtail0 -
Will Snow wrote:People from the 70's opinion of themselves
Think the sun shines out of their posteriors despite the fact they have all borrowed money they don't have, started several dozen wars for questionable reasons, managed not to sort out the energy problems, done nothing but reproduce to a level where there is no room anymore.
People born in the 90's opinion of themselves
Constantly being put down by the small minded idiots of the generation that preceded them, who actually believe that the country is getting worse in such ways as violent crime, wealth, taxation, despite the fact actually looking at any set of statistics (which aren't on the front page of the daily mail) will tell them otherwise.
By the way thanks for the fact that you've screwed up the environment, let famine go on for years after it needed to, eroded relations with several very large parts of the world, its muchly appreciated.
Woooaaaaaahhh !!!! :shock:
Calm down Will and pass me some salt and vinigar for that chip !!
I bet that in 20 years, you will be able to replace 70s with 90s and replace 90s with 10s.Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved0 -
MattC59 wrote:Will Snow wrote:People from the 70's opinion of themselves
Think the sun shines out of their posteriors despite the fact they have all borrowed money they don't have, started several dozen wars for questionable reasons, managed not to sort out the energy problems, done nothing but reproduce to a level where there is no room anymore.
People born in the 90's opinion of themselves
Constantly being put down by the small minded idiots of the generation that preceded them, who actually believe that the country is getting worse in such ways as violent crime, wealth, taxation, despite the fact actually looking at any set of statistics (which aren't on the front page of the daily mail) will tell them otherwise.
By the way thanks for the fact that you've screwed up the environment, let famine go on for years after it needed to, eroded relations with several very large parts of the world, its muchly appreciated.
Woooaaaaaahhh !!!! :shock:
Calm down Will and pass me some salt and vinigar for that chip !!
I bet that in 20 years, you will be able to replace 70s with 90s and replace 90s with 10s.
you probably could, but he could argue that doesn't make it any less true. :twisted:
oh, and he did say opinions.0 -
I wonder whose generation it is that's running around Salford with guns. :?0
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Stewie Griffin wrote:I wonder whose generation it is that's running around Salford with guns. :?
the one whos parents didnt teach them any betteri ride a hardtail0 -
everything is someone elses fault. and by the way bernard manning is NOT funny.
just thought i might disagree with pretty much everybody :?Death or Glory- Just another Story0 -
Will Snow wrote:Stewie Griffin wrote:I wonder whose generation it is that's running around Salford with guns. :?
the one whos parents didnt teach them any better
Because they were too busy selling logs?0 -
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That will teach you try some humour on this board.....naughty boy!
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Sometimes I do wonder ! :roll:markyboy2005 wrote:That will teach you try some humour on this board.....naughty boy!
:roll:Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved0
