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Subject: Fw: History of teaching maths...
Teaching maths in 19701. A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?
2.
Teaching Maths In 1980A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 80% of the price.
What is his profit?
3.
Teaching Maths In 1990A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80.
How much was his profit?
4.
Teaching Maths In 2000A 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.
5.
Teaching Maths In 2005A 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 ho mes just for a measly profit
of
£20.
6.
Teaching Maths In 2009A 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, pheasant and hedgehog baked in clay 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?
7.
Teaching Maths In 2010A 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 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 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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