But this is like the most intuitive way to teach math!!
Pimps and Gangs Subtracted From Math Test
Fri Jun 14, 8:35 PM ET
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A Canadian teacher has been suspended
after
shocking a small northern Manitoba school by distributing a math exam that
included questions about pimps, prostitutes, machine guns, cocaine
trafficking and getting "knocked up."
The math proficiency test included questions such as: "Rufus is a pimp for
three girls. If the price is $65 per trick, how many tricks per day must
each girl turn to support Rufus' $800 per day crack habit?"
And then there was the trouble with Hector.
"Hector knocked up three girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in his
gang. What is the exact percentage of the girls in the gang that Hector
knocked up?"
Parents of the 13-year-old and 14-year old students who attend Juniper
School in Thompson, Manitoba, said they were outraged.
And the province's minister of education, Drew Caldwell, said he was
"disturbed." The exam, which asked students for their name, gang name and
home room, was fast becoming the talk of this nickel-mining community of
15,000 people 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Winnipeg.
Supplied with the exact speed of travel and the number of seconds it takes
to load a shot gun, another test question asked students to calculate the
distance, Billie, a skateboard thief, would be able to flee before getting
"whacked."
The test appeared to be modeled after an exam called "The City of Los
Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam," found on an Internet
joke site.
― geeta, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
As someone from britain who has been here for a while and will be,
(for another 20-odd days) the only response would be: 'And here i was
thinking canadians are such nice ppl' but yes, this must be the sort
of thing you guys are into. either that or you ppl have been
listening to too many gangsta rap alb that were smuggled across the
border.
― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
See, if this had happened at Hatvard or MIT, it would have been
called a revolutionary step forward in education.
― Dan Perry, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
weren't you the one who went there?
My physics exams involve
little stories about "Little Billy" and how his family tries to kill
him. For example:
"Little Billy is pushed off a 150 m cliff in a
wagon with an initial horizontal velocity of 5 m/s. Discount air
resistance.
A) How long does it take him to hit the ground?
B)
What is the horizontal distance he has traveled?
C) If Little
Billy weighs 50 kg, what is the force he exerts on the ground?
D)
What is the force the ground exerts on Little Billy?"
This is
apparently in reference to some kid who broke the teacher's toe
playing basketball years and years ago. He's figured out that this
method works for the "happy children." He is a very sarcastic man.
― Maria, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Something must have slipped into the water from the mines., why does
reading about Thompson remind me there is yet another new Hip album
out. And how the Fuck did it get 5 stars in eye.
― Mr Noodles, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)