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      10-03-2009, 08:49 AM   #1
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Teaching Maths Uk Style

This email has probably done the rounds already but it made me laugh
Before I upset anybody though, I don't intend to be racist or anti immigrant etc.


TEACHING MATHS UK STYLE

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?

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?

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

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

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.

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 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 £100cash. 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?

Teaching Maths In 2010
A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he can’t get a loan t o 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 t heir 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 bonus's are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and claim the difference on expenses and allowances.
You do the maths.

Teaching Maths In 2017
أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة الانتاج من
الثمن. ما هو الربح ل7؟
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      10-03-2009, 02:47 PM   #2
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V funny....... with a crazy element of truth to it!
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I can recall a TV interview a couple of years ago of two muslim leaders who had just visited No 10 Downing Street. They were asked if they had had satisfactory meeting. One of the muslims replied that he would never be statisfied until there is a muslim Prime Minister.
This was not reported the following day in any newspapers to my knowledge.
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I can recall a TV interview a couple of years ago of two muslim leaders who had just visited No 10 Downing Street. They were asked if they had had satisfactory meeting. One of the muslims replied that he would never be statisfied until there is a muslim Prime Minister.
This was not reported the following day in any newspapers to my knowledge.
That's gonna ruffle a few feathers!
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Like the joke bar the muslim part
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Like the joke bar the muslim part
Yeah
I think it's taken over from the Irish being the butt of the jokes unfortunately.

I've got a couple of good mates of that faith who don't seem to mind though. just shows we're all different - but the same
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Its not really Great Britian anymore though is it
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