stupidity

[JA-Q001]

So here I am, sitting till half past one doing projects last night, when once again I'm reminded why our schools are getting dumber! While working on a heap of maths to hand in the this morning I left the TV on e-tv and on comes the game show brain box or something. Just before I'm finished, they start a summing game where you have to call in and give the answer to the sum 12 - 4 + 7, just as I wrote it. THe options are a) 22, b) 1, c) 15, d) 14 and just like the stuf before I thought, what a bunch of crap. Quickly the first caller gets through and says c) 15, ufcoarse. THEY TELL HIM HES WRONG! They say one must remember the laws of math and that one starts with brackets, multiplication, devision, addition and then subtraction and then gave some idiot R9000 for saying its b) 1. Come on, Im sitting there wanting to bang my head against the wall out of frustration. It reminded of seeing the one episode of hip2b2, when they handled primary colours and gave some kid a prize for saying the primary colours are blue, red and GREEN! What are they teaching the kids these days?

[Tumbleweed]

BODMAS. i remember that?

[DawieO]

Oh boy, that is very, very sad.

 

Unfortunately I see it almost everyday.  Youngsters come through without basic logic, not to mention math, and then there's the grammar and spelling...

[Cyclewizz]

BODMAS. i remember that?

 

But can you remember anything else ??

Do you still remeber Trigonometry & Calculus ?

[Bos]

Kannie die *** glo nie..

 

And I can Imagin the Arrogance the presenter must have had when telling the 1st caller he is wrong.. vark steaks..

 

[Tumbleweed]

Oh boy' date=' that is very, very sad.

 

Unfortunately I see it almost everyday.  Youngsters come through without basic logic, not to mention math, and then there's the grammar and spelling...

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it's not called maths anymore. its numeracy.

 

BODMAS. i remember that?

 

But can you remember anything else ??

Do you still remeber Trigonometry & Calculus ?

 

calculus was the exchange student from mexico!

[Slowbee]

 

Oh boy' date=' that is very, very sad.

 

Unfortunately I see it almost everyday.  Youngsters come through without basic logic, not to mention math, and then there's the grammar and spelling...

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it's not called maths anymore. its numeracy.

 

BODMAS. i remember that?

 

But can you remember anything else ??

Do you still remeber Trigonometry & Calculus ?

 

calculus was the exchange student from mexico!

 

did (s)he have the flu??

 

[DawieO]

For a bit of entertainment read the Kuota ad in the last issue of Triathlete.

 

Barely english.

DawieO2009-04-29 00:40:29

[Tumbleweed]

Oh boy' date=' that is very, very sad.

 

Unfortunately I see it almost everyday.  Youngsters come through without basic logic, not to mention math, and then there's the grammar and spelling...

[/quote']

 

it's not called maths anymore. its numeracy.

 

BODMAS. i remember that?

 

But can you remember anything else ??

Do you still remeber Trigonometry & Calculus ?

 

calculus was the exchange student from mexico!

 

i never shared his ham sandwiches

 

come on, someone's gotta remember that line? lou diamond phillips, stand and deliver?"hey teach, i'm the first one here?who's calculus?"

[TiBones]

Calculus is the Prof in Tintin!

[JA-Q001]

The bad thing is I was checking myself at first even grabed the calculator. I also can't believe that the presenters cant find anything wrong with what they are told by the supervisors or people thinking up the stuf behind the scenes.

[Matchstix]

I quickly dabbled a bit on my "som pompie" but there is no way you can get 22 with simple maths. . .. .  but then again. . its e-tv

[Christopher Brunsdon]

These shows have a system to them. You need to look at the background images, or lack of images to get the answer. You need to listen to exactly what they say too. Personally I never get it.

 

These shows are big in Europe, but eTV is not using one of the (larger) European companies to produce and verify their content.

 

[Underachiever]

Schools nowadays, scary stuff.

 

My son was taugh (Grade 3, I think) that any number (>0) divided by 0 = 0. Huh!!

 

I had to explain the correct maths to the teacher a few times before she got it right.