Subject: Maths - the way forward
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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?
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 5. Teaching Maths In 2005
> A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish
> and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat 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.
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> 6. Teaching Maths In 2012
> 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 t o 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.
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> 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?
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> 7. Teaching Maths In 2015
> A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he
> can’t get a loan to buy a new lorry because his bank has
> spent all his and their money on a derivative of securitised
> debt related to sub- prime mortgages in Alabama and lost the
> lot with only some government money left to pay a few
> million pound bonuses to their senior directors and the
> traders who made the biggest losses.
> The logger struggles to pay the £1,200 road tax on his old
> lorry however, as it was built in the 1970s it no longer
> meets the emissions regulations and he is forced to scrap
> it.
> Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap
> merchant and put it back on the road. They undercut everyone
> on price for haulage and send their cash back home, while
> claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives. If
> questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport
> them at the governments expense. Following their holiday
> back home they return to the UK with different names and
> fresh girls and start again. The logger protests, is accused
> of being a bigoted racist and as his name is on the side of
> his old lorry he is forced to pay £1,500 registration fees
> as a gang master.
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> The Government borrows more money to pay more to the
> bankers as bonus's are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel
> they are missing out and claim the difference on expenses
> and allowances.
> You do the maths.
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> 8. Teaching Maths 2020
> أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من
> الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة
> الانت=D 8ج من
> الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟