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Teaching maths in 1970
1. A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?

2. Teaching Maths In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 80% of the price.
What is his profit?

3. Teaching Maths In 1990
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80.
How much was his profit?

4. Teaching Maths In 2000
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80 and his profit is £20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

5.. Teaching Maths In 2005
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and
inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habit of animals or the
preservation
of our woodlands. Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels
might feel as the logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit
of £20.

6. Teaching Maths In 2009
A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be
offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consulted in the
felling
licence. He is also fined a £100 as his chainsaw is in breach of Health
and Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous and could cut
something. He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without incident
however he does not have the correct certificate of competence and is
therefore considered to be a recidivist and habitual criminal. His DNA
is sampled and his details circulated throughout all government
agencies. He protests and is taken to court and fined another £100
because he is such an easy target.
When he is released he returns to find Gypsies have cut down half his
wood to build a camp on his land. He tries to throw them off but is
arrested, prosecuted
for harassing an ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined a further £100.
While he is in jail the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell
it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a leaving BBQ of
squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving behind several tonnes of
rubbish and asbestos sheeting. The forester on release is warned that
failure to clear the fly tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is
an offence. He complains and is arrested for environmental pollution,
breach of the peace and invoiced £12,000 plus VAT for safe disposal
costs by a regulated government contractor.

Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to have to be
arrested and fined before he realises that he is never going to make £20
profit by hard work, give up, sign onto the dole and live off the state
for the rest of his life?

8. Teaching Maths 2017
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Hog wrote:

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I think minor is pushing the truth a little.

 

Ha.
I feel your dismay.

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Ha it didn't post very well.

2017 was in Arabic script.

 

They had stopped teaching properly by the time you went to school sonny

 

Post corrected.

 

<nods>

 

Ah, arabic was it? I thought it'd be chinese.

 

Didn't you listen to that interesting R4 prog t'other day. Bloke wrote
exam papers for several decades. He recounted the various stages of
instruction they went through to make the exams "more accessible".

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

Steady now. Have you checked that s/he is over 18? You don't want to be
handing over a potentially offensive weapon without checking that to do
so is lawful.

You terrorist.

 

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[reformed]

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Do you think the Scunner Cameron will repeal all this insane legislation?