Teaching Math
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Teaching Math in 1950:
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 $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' is100.
Each element is worth one dollar.
The set 'C,' the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set 'M'.
Represent the set 'C' as a subset of set 'M' and answer the following
question:
What is the cardinality ofthe set 'P' of profits?
Teaching Math in 1980:
A logger sells a truckload oflumber for $100.
His cost of production is $80
and his profit is $20.
Your assignment: Underlinethe 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 loggers 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 $600?
Teaching Math in 2010:
El hachero vende un camioncarga por $100.
Qual es la cuesta deproducion?
Posted by: Mivaro
A logger sells a truckload oflumber for $100.
His cost of production is $80
and his profit is $20.
Your assignment: Underlinethe number 20.
I think i got this kind of math :D , a few years earlier though....
Posted by: wiz
are you reminisceing ShareDaddy
LOL
Posted by: Skweeky
lol, I got the '90 version, aaah, those were the days :lol:
and it wasn't only maths.... :D :D