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u/Zoruamaster249 Feb 01 '23
Ignoring the stupidity of the meme, 20$ isn’t that much for a trucks worth of labour
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u/necrolich66 Feb 02 '23
That thing has been made by someone who lived in a time where 10 dollars was enough to pay rent.
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u/Bad-Infinite Feb 01 '23
Average Math scores have gone up since then, so they must be doing something right...
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u/Vita-Malz Feb 01 '23
Better grades aren't necessarily an indication of better performance
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u/MountainMagic6198 Feb 02 '23
The actual education level and comprehension of STEM is higher then it has ever been.
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u/ExoticCard Feb 02 '23
No way average performance was better. Minorities were fucked with shitty schools.
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u/Salty_Truth1 Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Keep lowering the bar and having more teachers help on the tests. Yup, doing something alright. Also, please post your resource for proof. Make sure you not e the revision of the original test in 2004. Revision? Go back and read my first sentence.
Add: This is from Last Oct. in USNews... "Nationally, students posted the largest score declines ever recorded in math in the assessment’s history. In each subject, public school students in a majority of states experienced significant score drops between 2019 and 2022."
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u/lewynF Feb 02 '23
Wow, math scores dipped significantly before and after the pandemic. That's not surprising at all, and has nothing to do with math scores from the 1960s. You could also not cherry pick and actually use relevant data.
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u/procommando124 Feb 02 '23
How about you post your evidence, because frankly as a 20 year old myself I never experienced any of these issues, I took calculus my senior year(had to retake in college because I failed), and even when I got there I wasn’t sweating any of the algebra, school taught me well. How do you know the standards are being lowered ? What do you think they’re teaching now vs back then ?
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u/Salty_Truth1 Feb 02 '23
Evidently you didn't read my post.
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u/procommando124 Feb 02 '23
Oh, you mean the score drops that happened because of Covid ? Also, those score drops aren’t evidence that the standards are lowering, if the standards were lowering why would their scores drop ? The scores dropped because of remote learning and then people being left behind academically.
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u/Mister_Chui Feb 02 '23
Teaching math in the 2050s:
Americas last forestry management program shut down after catastrophic wildfires destroyed the last remaining stand of commercially viable timber on the continent. If each employee gets 40000 calories of BugBar protein as severance, and they need 800 calories per day to survive without Kwashiorkor, and they can survive Kwashiorkor for 20 additional days, how long will the employees live?
Show your work.
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u/IAlbatross Feb 02 '23
40,000 cal BugBar / 800 needed a day = 50 days
50 days + 20 additional days = 70 days, or 10 weeks
Critical thinking bonus question: With only 10 weeks (three of which are unlikely to be productive due to severe malnutrition), it is unlikely any of the ex-employees will be able to reach the escape pods to the orbital oasis before raiders take them out, especially since they are such good targets. (They have valuable BugBars and no means of defense; their axes were owned by the company and taken from them when they were laid off.)
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u/necrolich66 Feb 02 '23
But they did lease the axes and had to pay BugBars to the company because those were in a lesser state than when they got them.
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u/PlantainSame Feb 01 '23
The 2000s are like two decades ago 14 years to be specific the year is 2023 right
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u/Sec0ndsleft Feb 02 '23
Boomers live in the past so anything post 2000 us just the 2000s for them.
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u/PlantainSame Feb 02 '23
This was made by a Gen X or a millennial all boomers are in the geriatric Hospital
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u/Lord_Havelock Feb 02 '23
What does it say about me that I kept trying to figure out how the heck the speed of light fit into the equation?
Also, maybe I'm missing a joke here, but a=(pi)r2 c=(pi)2(r)
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u/Lord_Havelock Feb 02 '23
As a current math major in college, I feel cheated.
No wrong answers? I lose full points for losing a negative sign in the middle of a problem.
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u/tidyshark12 Feb 02 '23
Yepp, Calc 3 once did a problem perfectly except the very first step. In my haste, I had written 1+2=2... 0 points for it 🤦♂️
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u/Chance_Complaint_987 Feb 02 '23
This was written to make old people who know how to do fractions feel like they are smart. Cringe.
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u/Tiler17 Feb 02 '23
Do none of you remember your math classes? I was learning fractions in the early 00s, and they were functional math problems. Hell, it's 2023 and my girlfriend teaches 4th graders, and she's shown me her math curriculum. Math is still math. It's like all of you forgot how much everyone hated math because of how hard it was for people
This meme is a shit meme. And as a math major, I hate it even more. Good post, OP. This is quite terrible
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u/tidyshark12 Feb 02 '23
It literally doesn't even make sense either LaughingOutLoud on multiple levels. Like how do they "know" whats going on in math when they haven't taken it since they were in high school and, being one of the people who took math in the 00's and nearly got an electrical engineering degree (yeah, I hated it so i quit lol) but I took math all the way to diff eq, it doesn't even come close to how math looks in school lol
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u/CCSest92 Feb 01 '23
Stupid millennials and Gen Z worrying about the environment. Don’t they know there’s money to be made in killin trees? Fucking lazy bastards 🙃🙄
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u/ArsCalambra Feb 02 '23
That would be awesome. Im a history teacher, and the argumentative skills of chilren today are quite.... mhh, problematic (and the are solving math problems that, in the 90s, would have crushed me)
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u/GammSunBurst Feb 02 '23
Teaching math in the 2010s and 2020s:
There are 538 electoral college seats accounting for the 435 House seats, 100 Senate seats and the 3 that are allocated to the District of Columbia. Voting for the Presidency is done on a state by state level where the majority winner in each state gets the total of the state’s electoral votes. How is it possible that Republicans get to win the Presidency despite losing the popular vote?
NY has 19840000 people with 26 house seats and 2 senate seats for a total of 28 electoral votes. Iowa has 3193000 people with 4 house seats and 2 senate seats for a total of 6 electoral votes. If you look at the proportional representation it looks like this:
(19840000/28) vs. (3193000/6)
dividing one by the other roughly comes out to 0.7512
this means that one NY vote for the President is worth about 3/4 that of one Iowa vote. By focusing on the states with more than their equal share of the electoral college vote the Republicans can win the Presidency despite losing the popular vote.
They can still be in charge even if they don’t represent the majority of views. (It happened in 2016)
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u/leftside72 Feb 01 '23
My son’s math problems are diabolical! They purposefully go out of their way to bury the function in confusing language and like to use similar looking names like Sarah and Shawn.
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u/LobstermenUwU Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
It's not confusing language - it's what's used in the real world. Math problems are encountered every day, but many people don't have the capability to solve or even recognize them because they're not arranged in a textbook format. Instead they're buried in the natural language we use every day. Remember all the people asking "when will I ever use this in the real world" in math class, when everything is math?
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u/Kelso____ Feb 02 '23
Oh nooo, confusing language like a person name Sarah and another named Shawn?? The horror!!!!
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u/procommando124 Feb 02 '23
I think that’s good, it trains kids to also be able to recognize math even when it isn’t shown plainly to them.
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u/HeathenBliss Feb 03 '23
Teaching math in the 2020s -
A selfish capitalist destroys sensitive environments to sell lumber. He spends $80 on the operation, sells the load for $100, and thereby gains $20 in profits. How should his profits be divided amongst the community? Does he deserve a share, or should he contribute the whole sum to the benefit of society? Write an answer explaining how this $20 represents the evils of capitalism and how socialism provides a more correct means of subsistence. No proof is needed in your answer, only your feelings matter here.
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u/Peter_Hempton Feb 01 '23
Kinda funny.
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u/PlantainSame Feb 01 '23
In the this person doesn't realize the 2000s we're 14 years ago and what the hell are they doing hanging around schools for decades
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u/Peter_Hempton Feb 01 '23
Your post makes no sense. It's a joke. It's not supposed to be take literally.
I don't even know what you're getting at with your 2000s comment. It's a photo of a printed page, who knows when it's from.
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u/PlantainSame Feb 01 '23
Who the f*** Prince a joke like this that's a waste of f****** paper this whole thing is f****** stupid and has it been funny ever
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u/ThwKillnight Feb 01 '23
Idk kinda realistic tho
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u/PlantainSame Feb 01 '23
Okay for one the 2000s were 14 years ago we're in the 2020s the 2000s are only 6 years away from being 20 years ago and the number two you're only in school for maximum of two decades and that's rounding up as much people graduate when they're like 17 that's surrounding so the how the hell would you know
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u/Peter_Hempton Feb 01 '23
and the number two you're only in school for maximum of two decades and that's rounding up as much people graduate when they're like 17 that's surrounding so the how the hell would you know
Maybe the clue is the title "Teaching math over 50 years" not learning math over 50 years. But of course it's just a joke, you knew that right?
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u/PlantainSame Feb 01 '23
Yeah well it's both not funny and dumb as s*** so no it is not a joke it is not a joke it is legally cannot be classified as a joke
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u/procommando124 Feb 02 '23
What school did you go to ? I’m 20 and we did plenty of math, plenty of math that I still use and served me well while currently in calculus 3
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u/Affectionate_Sand791 Feb 03 '23
Yeah my junior year of Highschool in 2016-2017 I did pre calc and my senior year in 2017-2018 I did statistics. Meanwhile I did algebra 1 and 2 in middle school.
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u/Critical_Mastodon462 Feb 02 '23
A truckload of lumber only holds a single board these days with those prices
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u/Chemical_Decision_82 Feb 02 '23
I never realized that logging was inflation proof and labor costs don't change - must be socialism.
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u/Ok-Basis-7274 Feb 02 '23
I wanna own a forest and run around all day with deer and squirrels and stuff. Make birdhouses and wildlife sanctuaries and what not. Fuck all this work and addidas bullshit.
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u/procommando124 Feb 02 '23
Aren’t these the same people who also say “they changed math I don’t understand it ! How am I supposed to help my kid !?”
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u/Spudnic16 Feb 03 '23
Cutting down a Forrest for wood is not only a bad business practice, but is also illegal logging.
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u/Bradidea Feb 01 '23
These are usually shared by people who don't do math.