{"id":82,"date":"2003-09-12T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2003\/09\/82.html"},"modified":"2003-09-12T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T11:58:00","slug":"i-didnt-write-this-but-i-thought-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/09\/i-didnt-write-this-but-i-thought-it.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<br \/>I didn&#8217;t write this, but I thought it was funny&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Math in1950:<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.  His cost of production is<br \/>\n<br \/>4\/5 of the price.  What is his profit?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Math in 1960:<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.  His cost of production is<br \/>\n<br \/>4\/5 of the price, or $80.  What is his profit?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Math in 1970:<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>A logger exchanges a set L of lumber for a set M of money.  The cardinality<br \/>\n<br \/>of set M is 100.  Each element is worth one dollar.  Make 100 dots<br \/>\n<br \/>representing the elements of the set M. The set C, the cost of production,<br \/>\n<br \/>contains 20 fewer points than the set M  Represent the set C as a subset of<br \/>\n<br \/>set M and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set<br \/>\n<br \/>P of profits?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Math in 1980:<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>A logger sells a truckload of lumber of $100.  His cost of production is<br \/>\n<br \/>$80 and his profit is $20.  Your assignment: underline the number 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Math in 1990:<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20.  What do you<br \/>\n<br \/>think of this way of making a living?  What&#8217;s wrong about it?  Topic for<br \/>\n<br \/>class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds<br \/>\n<br \/>and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees?  (There are no wrong<br \/>\n<br \/>answers).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Math in 2000:<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.  His cost of production is<br \/>\n<br \/>$120.  How does Arthur Anderson determine that his profit margin is $60.<br \/>\n<br \/>And, how many documents were shredded to achieve this number?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Math in 2010:<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>El Loggero se habla with the truckero y se ponen de acuerdo con otro driver<br \/>\n<br \/>de la conpentencia y etc&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- I didn&#8217;t write this, but I thought it was funny&#8230; Teaching Math in1950: A logger sells a truckload of<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/09\/i-didnt-write-this-but-i-thought-it.html\" title=\"Read \">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}