http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gruesome-assignment-spells-termination-for-d-c-teacher-2/ Some of these math problems are just too good. When America needs to recapture its glory days of science and math education, how can it strike down a creative educator like this? “My 3 friends and I were caught and tied up by 1023 screaming cannibals in a jungle last night. Soon we were feeling terribly itchy because of the mosquitoes. We begged the cannibals to scratch us. 219 cannibals refused because they were busy cutting vegetables. The rest of them, however, surrounded us in equal numbers and began to scratch us with their teeth, just like dogs. It felt good! How many cannibals scratched me?”
Just because they surrounded you in equal number doesn't mean they also scratched you in equal number....
Here's the response from the creator of the homework questions. http://www.homeschooling-paradise.com/
LOL @ saying "glory days" :grin: WHEN, exactly? Probably the only good mathematicians were here before the revolution, then brought over from Germany and Asia. Einstein? Ben Franklin was good. He invented ONE TOO MANY THINGS. HighTop, he said "surrounded us in equal numbers and began to scratch us with their teeth." 4p 1023c 1023 -219c = 804c 804c/4p = 201c/p 201c/p is two hundred and one cannibals per person
How can they fit 201 cannibals around a person, close enough to scratch him with their teeth? That's unpossible!
True, they would have to take turns. By the way, violence aside, these are turrible homework questions. LOL @ "homeschooling paradise dot com."
What's the big deal, my math teacher does the same thing. Like we had test on graphing parabolas, and the question was something like: "Little Sally lits a stick of dynamite in her tree house, the explosion sends a rock up in the air. What was it's highest point?" Or I took a quiz on the metric system in science, and one question was like: "Timmy is in prison, he buys a bird(kilo) of coke. How many killigrams of cocaine will Timmy snort?" Nothing wrong with a little harmless fun.
HOW? HOW?!?!?!?! <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xu_bE7g2wqM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> EDIT: Darn it. That's small hands. Here's what we're looking for: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LXi0C8QGYso" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Here's the entire assignment! "John's father gave him 1359 marbles on his birthday. John swallowed 585 marbles and died. 9 of John's friends came for his funeral the next day. John's grieving father gave the remaining marbles to John's friends in equal numbers. How many marbles did each friend get?" :grin:
While in college I tutored a high school kid in my neighborhood - Asian but not good in math. Impossibru indeed. Anyway, I wrote up math word problems exactly like this for him to try to keep him engaged. 'Jebrell had 56 bullets. He did a drive by and shot 18 times. How many bullets did he have left?' Didn't work anyway because the kid flunked the TAAS/TAKS or whatever the test was called back then.
I think the teacher was honestly trying to connect with her students. This is definently too far though.
"Brian, a brave member of a SWAT team in California, had a terribly busy week last week. He had to work for 7 whole days. He killed 163 terrorists, 296 murderers and 206 arsonists. How many criminals did he kill on average each day?" I think "Brian" is Fredrick Zoller
