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TEACHING MATHS
> 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?
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> 2. Teaching Maths In 1980
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> 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
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> 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
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>
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 6. Teaching Maths In 2009
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> 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, gives up,
> signs onto
> the dole and
> lives off
> the state for
> the rest of his life?
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> 7. Teaching Maths In 2010
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> 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 log! gers 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 government's
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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