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SirJuggles:
Answer: They'll never find the body.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Orbert on 05 May 2011, 10:02 ---My final year as a teacher, I was assigned two sections of "Math 1". "Math 1" is what they call it when people somehow get to be juniors and seniors in high school but cannot add fractions or tell you how many sides a triangle has. I know some people just aren't great at math, and I have no problem with that, but the majority of them were in the class because they'd never given a shit about math or school or life in general as far as I could tell. All of my training told me that the key was to make the class fun and interesting, somehow relate the topic to them. Application problems were fun, at least for me.
Roy mugs Dirk, dropping him to the ground, and runs down the street at 20 feet per second. If it takes Dirk 3 seconds to get up, and another 2 seconds to pull out and aim his 9mm, how far away will they find Roy's body? (You may assume the travel time of the bullet is instantaneous, and Dirk does not move Roy's body other than to retrieve his wallet.)
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Anyone else think of this Family Guy bit?
--- Quote from: Family Guy ---"It's 3:00! Where the hell is Louie?"
"Well, you tell me. Louie left his house at 2:15 and has to travel 6.2 miles at a rate of 5 miles per hour. What time will Louie arrive?"
"(thinks for a second) Depends if he stops to see his ho."
"(rubs kid's head) That's what we call a variable!"
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Sorflakne:
--- Quote from: Orbert on 05 May 2011, 10:02 ---My final year as a teacher, I was assigned two sections of "Math 1". "Math 1" is what they call it when people somehow get to be juniors and seniors in high school but cannot add fractions or tell you how many sides a triangle has. I know some people just aren't great at math, and I have no problem with that, but the majority of them were in the class because they'd never given a shit about math or school or life in general as far as I could tell. All of my training told me that the key was to make the class fun and interesting, somehow relate the topic to them. Application problems were fun, at least for me.
Roy mugs Dirk, dropping him to the ground, and runs down the street at 20 feet per second. If it takes Dirk 3 seconds to get up, and another 2 seconds to pull out and aim his 9mm, how far away will they find Roy's body? (You may assume the travel time of the bullet is instantaneous, and Dirk does not move Roy's body other than to retrieve his wallet.)
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One of my math teachers used to do something similar. One exercise went something like about how one kid in class decides to chase after some fat chicks for some sweet lovin', and ran at 20 miles an hour after them but got a nicotine attack after 4 seconds and had to stop, so how far did he run?
The teacher also poked fun at our Vietnamese exchange student one year, telling him to quit looking out the window because there wasn't any Viet Cong outside the window. And he'd tell the kid to not jump out the window and commit hari kari for getting a 97% on a test. The kid had a good sense of humor though, and took it all in stride.
calenlass:
isn't hara kiri a dirty jap thing
The extra letter:
I think the assumption being that they're all "Chinamen".
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