This is funny: Teaching math

Oct. 22, 2009
A reader sends this item: 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 ...

A reader sends this item:

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 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

Teaching Math In 1970 ..... A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?

Teaching Math In 1980 ..... A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the 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 logger cut down the trees. (There are no wrong answers.)

Teaching Math In 2005 ..... El hachero vende un camion carga por $100. La cuesta de production es 4/5.............

[Reference to 1990's education

** Courtesy of Nilesh Panandikar]

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