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  • A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

    A bit long-winded but loved the ending (no jumping ahead!). Enjoy!

    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 2.0in 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 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 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 100دولار. صاحب تكلفة
    الانتاج من
    الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟

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    Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

    Won't be a joke if Nu Labour have their way.

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      interesting how you confuse in your mind liberal labor politics and right wing religious nut-jobs?

      You should at least get your sterotype political directions correct: extreme left (communists), center left (socialists), center right (capitalists), extreme right (fascists)

      The real danger in the UK and America and Iran and Israel are right wing radicals -the combination of facsists and bible pounders - the actual religion / radical ideology does not matter - christian, jews, muslims, fascist, communist, ... all bad...as per the founding fathers of America.

      Islamo-fascists and christano-fascists and hebrew-fascists have much more in common than with the left wing liberal labor types. LOL!

      1. Teaching Maths In Chistano-fascist America

      Haliburton sells a truckload of timber for $100.
      The cost of production is $0 and profilt is $200 - because it was taken from you through eminant domain and "de-regulation" of public timber lands and a republican subsidy (NOT A TAX CUT) to promote the timber business and to create "jobs".

      Your assignment: Go read your bible.
      Last edited by MulaMan; January 31, 2010, 06:34 PM.

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        Originally posted by MulaMan View Post
        interesting how you confuse in your mind liberal labor politics and right wing religious nut-jobs?

        You should at least get your sterotype political directions correct: extreme left (communists), center left (socialists), center right (capitalists), extreme right (fascists)

        The real danger in the UK and America and Iran and Israel are right wing radicals -the combination of facsists and bible pounders - the actual religion / radical ideology does not matter - christian, jews, muslims, fascist, communist, ... all bad...as per the founding fathers of America.

        Islamo-fascists and christano-fascists and hebrew-fascists have much more in common than with the left wing liberal labor types. LOL!

        1. Teaching Maths In Chistano-fascist America

        Haliburton sells a truckload of timber for $100.
        The cost of production is $0 and profilt is $200 - because it was taken from you through eminant domain and "de-regulation" of public timber lands and a republican subsidy (NOT A TAX CUT) to promote the timber business and to create "jobs".

        Your assignment: Go read your bible.
        MM,

        You had me worried for a moment, that is until I got to your new punchline.

        Very good. Indeed, excellent. 10/10 go to the top of the class.

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        • #5
          Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

          Yes, nice ending.

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          • #6
            Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

            Originally posted by MulaMan View Post
            interesting how you confuse in your mind liberal labor politics and right wing religious nut-jobs?

            You should at least get your sterotype political directions correct: extreme left (communists), center left (socialists), center right (capitalists), extreme right (fascists)

            The real danger in the UK and America and Iran and Israel are right wing radicals -the combination of facsists and bible pounders - the actual religion / radical ideology does not matter - christian, jews, muslims, fascist, communist, ... all bad...as per the founding fathers of America.

            Islamo-fascists and christano-fascists and hebrew-fascists have much more in common than with the left wing liberal labor types. LOL!

            1. Teaching Maths In Chistano-fascist America

            Haliburton sells a truckload of timber for $100.
            The cost of production is $0 and profilt is $200 - because it was taken from you through eminant domain and "de-regulation" of public timber lands and a republican subsidy (NOT A TAX CUT) to promote the timber business and to create "jobs".

            Your assignment: Go read your bible.
            Chill pill needed

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            • #7
              Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

              The whole thread leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It belongs in rant and rave.

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              • #8
                Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

                Originally posted by llanlad2 View Post
                The whole thread leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It belongs in rant and rave.
                I must apologise, it was not intended to offend. Put it down to a British sense of humour.

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                  Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

                  I wet my pants laughing so hard after reading this post from Chris Coles about math problem-solving from 1970 to 2017. The article was not politically correct, nor was it supposed to be politically correct. It was a fair comment about the politically correct speech and prudishness we have to-day, especially in the public schools, not just in the UK but also in America and Canada too.

                  And yes, PC thought-control is in all subjects in the public schools, even math. That is why Chris's article was hilarious.

                  The fact that Ilanlad (above) mentions being offended by the humourous comment on math problem-solving, makes Chris's point even more valid: There is a rigid PC thought-control throughout the public school curriculum, even in math.
                  Last edited by Starving Steve; February 01, 2010, 10:14 PM.

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                    Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

                    Originally posted by Chris Coles View Post
                    I must apologise, it was not intended to offend. Put it down to a British sense of humour.
                    Chris: British [and Canadian] humour often doesn't travel well when it crosses into the USA. I had a good laugh not only because of your post, but also from the almost predictable reactions...:cool:

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                    • #11
                      Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

                      Much of the content I agree with and deserves ridicule. State control, regualtions, health and safety, restrictions on liberty, freedoms etc. It's the bringing of race into the joke that offends, it adds nothing other than unfounded prejudice.

                      The punchline was that we will all be doing Maths in Arabic which is obviously BS. For somethingto be funny it needs to be closer to the truth than the above "joke".

                      As for thought control Starving Steve. Ask yourself this. How do the economic problems created by mostly wealthy, white, private school attending bankers and paid off politicians get blamed on gypsies and muslims?

                      Answer : by getting the corporate media to constantly insinuate that immigration, chinks, gypsies, towelheads, insurgents, terrorists, Spics, Mexicanos, greedy Arabs, drug taking blacks and anyone other than themselves is to blame for society's ills.
                      And they succeed. Now that's real thought control.

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                      • #12
                        Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

                        Originally posted by llanlad2 View Post
                        Much of the content I agree with and deserves ridicule. State control, regualtions, health and safety, restrictions on liberty, freedoms etc. It's the bringing of race into the joke that offends, it adds nothing other than unfounded prejudice.

                        The punchline was that we will all be doing Maths in Arabic which is obviously BS. For somethingto be funny it needs to be closer to the truth than the above "joke".

                        As for thought control Starving Steve. Ask yourself this. How do the economic problems created by mostly wealthy, white, private school attending bankers and paid off politicians get blamed on gypsies and muslims?

                        Answer : by getting the corporate media to constantly insinuate that immigration, chinks, gypsies, towelheads, insurgents, terrorists, Spics, Mexicanos, greedy Arabs, drug taking blacks and anyone other than themselves is to blame for society's ills.
                        And they succeed. Now that's real thought control.
                        Someone put this thread on snooze-control. We have a serious sense of humour failure in the engine compartment.

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                        • #13
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                          Originally posted by Chris View Post
                          Someone put this thread on snooze-control. We have a serious sense of humour failure in the engine compartment.
                          The modern PC brigade puts the 17th century puritans to shame with its righteousness and humourlessness.

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                            Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

                            Originally posted by hayekvindicated View Post
                            The modern PC brigade puts the 17th century puritans to shame with its righteousness and humourlessness.
                            Hayek, if you're ever at a loose end for a few hours, try reading this book:

                            http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/095528540...6DDNH23AV7DYCV&

                            It's a hilarious and damning indictment of our state education system...by someone who teaches in it. Great stuff!

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                              Re: A Recent History of Maths Teaching In Britain

                              Originally posted by Chris View Post
                              Hayek, if you're ever at a loose end for a few hours, try reading this book:

                              http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/095528540...6DDNH23AV7DYCV&

                              It's a hilarious and damning indictment of our state education system...by someone who teaches in it. Great stuff!
                              Chris, thanks! I will check it out.

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