Education over the years

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mattviatura

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1. Teaching Maths In 1970

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 2.0in 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?

7. Teaching Maths In 2010

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.

The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as bonuses

are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and claim

the difference on expenses and allowances.

You do the maths.

8. Teaching Maths 2017

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205 months

Saturday 18th July 2009
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1981 just called, it wants its corny email back