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1. Teaching Maths In 1970

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for
£1000.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the
selling price.
What is his profit?

2. Teaching Maths In 1980

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for
£1000.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the
selling price, or £800.
What is his profit?

3. Teaching Maths In 1990

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for
£1000.
His cost of production is £800.
Did he make a profit?

4. Teaching Maths In 2000

A logger sells a lorry load of timber for
£1000.
His cost of production is £800 and his
profit is £200.
Your assignment: Underline the number
200.

5. Teaching Maths In 2008

A logger cuts down a beautiful forest
because he is totally selfish and inconsiderate and cares
nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of
our woodlands.
He does this so he can make a profit of
£200. What do you think of this way of making a living?
Topic for class participation after
answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel
as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong
answers.

If you are upset about the plight of the
animals in question counselling will be available)

6. Teaching Maths 2018

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shudnt this go in the rant thread?

PS it's not true, I'm doin a level maths and its solid
 
Yantorsen said:
shudnt this go in the rant thread?

PS it's not true, I'm doin a level maths and its solid
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A level maths is easy compared to engineering maths in university.

Last year i did a maths module, which used NO numbers at all, all symbol work, derivations, and laws. It was challenging to say the least.
 
Ant said:
A level maths is easy compared to engineering maths in university.

Last year i did a maths module, which used NO numbers at all, all symbol work, derivations, and laws. It was challenging to say the least.
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Wait until you start to add a few financial equations and theory in there and then you will see what a real messy world that gets to be :D
 
I was learning Maths around 2000...and I resent that.


Sadly, most of the school had no clue even of what the word 'resent' means, nor whether 800 is indeed a larger number than 1000....so I suppose I was the minority there :shrug:
 
Ant said:
A level maths is easy compared to engineering maths in university.

Last year i did a maths module, which used NO numbers at all, all symbol work, derivations, and laws. It was challenging to say the least.
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Yeah I'm sure it is, but my point was it hasn't got any easier like the OP seems to suggest.

apart from maybe decision making maths.
 
Without the 2018 reference, it's quite funny.

With the 2018 reference, it's nothing more than racist sh*t in my book, sorry.
 
whitewash said:
sorry lets dumb the world down to levels where no one is allowed a little pop at one anothers religion because we are all too uptight.
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Err, it's not a pop at a religion, it's about maths, and it's racist.

If deploring racism of any degree makes me uptight, then so be it.
 
the main part in most jokes is that it takes the mickey out of someone be it hair colour, intelegence level, religion or for that matter, race...... ever laughed at an 'englishmen, irishmen, scotsman joke?
 
why do they call it maths?

can you get just one?

would it be a math? :shrug:
 
Ah yes, accross the pond they do call it math :shrug:
 
I genuinely had this in a physics GCSE:

A lorry weighing 5 tonnes is travelling at fifty miles per hour. Which of the following things would cause the worst damage when hit by said lorry (OK they prob got wording better...)

A) - a 2 tonne car, stationary
b) - a 5 tonne lorry. moving at 15 MPH in the same direction.
c) - a concrete bridge, stationary.

And yes I did pass, Well a B....
 
lawrie29 said:
A) - a 2 tonne car, stationary
b) - a 5 tonne lorry. moving at 15 MPH in the same direction.
c) - a concrete bridge, stationary.

And yes I did pass, Well a B....
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thats actually not so straight forward, and without knowing the structural properties of the bridge it'd be impossible to say. It also doesn't tell you if the cars handbrake is on, if it was off it wouldn't be so bad.
 
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Good Luck with the A level....
 
Simmotino said:
Err, it's not a pop at a religion, it's about maths, and it's racist.

If deploring racism of any degree makes me uptight, then so be it.
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I'm with Simmotino.

The 'joke' is the supposed degradation of the maths question over a number of years. The final 2018 section does not carry on that narrative. While some jokes do indeed derive their humour from a sudden switch in the narrative they generally do so by exposing a alternative meaning in the preceding text. In this case the final section is simply unpleasant.
 
who? said:
I'm with Simmotino.

The 'joke' is the supposed degradation of the maths question over a number of years. The final 2018 section does not carry on that narrative. While some jokes do indeed derive their humour from a sudden switch in the narrative they generally do so by exposing a alternative meaning in the preceding text. In this case the final section is simply unpleasant.
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How is it unpleasant.
 
Its to help try and work out how much the Taxman took off you, after working all week.

My wife must work for them aswell as she takes the rest.Bloody clever stuff this maths.
 
nilagin said:
How is it unpleasant.
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So you dont understand how the rather unpleasant racists like to try to imply that everything that is wrong with the country is down to those bloody foreigners. Especially the ones with strange names that look different.

How about you explain why that ending is funny and how it continues the theme of the joke?

I guess I just have no sense of humour.
 
who? said:
So you dont understand how the rather unpleasant racists like to try to imply that everything that is wrong with the country is down to those bloody foreigners. Especially the ones with strange names that look different.

How about you explain why that ending is funny and how it continues the theme of the joke?

I guess I just have no sense of humour.
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because its based on taking the micheal out of the islamic fundementalists view that islam will take over the world... the fact that it doesnt follow with the rest of the joke doesnt matter and in some ways the sudden change in direction adds to the amusement of it in a 2 part sort of a way.


so hang on because i laughed at that part of the joke that makes me racist, and i now think that every problem in this country is caused by foreigners.......... jeez
 
whitewash said:
because its based on taking the micheal out of the islamic fundementalists view that islam will take over the world... the fact that it doesnt follow with the rest of the joke doesnt matter and in some ways the sudden change in direction adds to the amusement of it in a 2 part sort of a way.
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That is the way I saw it too.
Obviously some people look for something that just isn't there.
 
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lol im Arabic but i didnt understand this .. its like
the member sell his wood from $ ..the manger from the cost .. cost
what is the cost ?


hehehe
 
Dear oh dear. Just takes one person with an epic sense of humour failure to kill a thread. People need to chill out!

I will say one thing about maths, and that it only gets properly difficult when the meaning behind what you are dealing with becomes abstract, and almost impossible to visualise.
 
dicko said:
Whats maths for
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Everything. Without it, civilisation wouldn't exist. We wouldn't be able to explain the universe, how things work. Certainly no photography.

For example, did you know that the f-number progression is in multiples of the square root of 2? That's how each f-stop allows double (or half) of the light of the ones either side of it.

No computers, no Internet, no email, etc etc etc.

I wish I was much, much better at Maths. It's only as I've matured in years (OK aged) that I have really appreciated the significance of it. Especially in photography.


Way to go Yantorsen. I'm seriously tempted myself, but it will have to wait until after I've finished studying Italian (currently doing AS level Italian with Kiasmum). Molto bene!
 
Watched programme recently about Babylonians. They reckon due to their manner and dress style, the three Magi at the birth of Jesus where Babylonian.As they were travelling they used mathematics to chart the stars. Another was how the Greeks used it in major conjunction with Geometry for planning straight lines through rock when tunnelling.Similar to the chunnel.Im probably neanderthal but ive never had a use for pythagorus.bodmas or algebra. but i do appreciate a good joke
 
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