Eames Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 My other answer, if I was being pedantic about how the question was originally phased (i.e. it wasn't explicitly stated that you kept both halves of the plank after cutting), would have been "1 piece, 50 cms long". Exactly. I thought it was really interesting how many assumptions we make in maths problems when trying to put things in a real world context (eg the very reason we use word problems). For example, another question that I found interesting was: A boat holds 6 people. There are 74 people. How many boats do you need? This is an attempt to put a division/multiple question in context to show there can't always be a remainder. However, how real is it really? Are all people the same size? Are those 74 people all adults? Disability? Interested me anyway :-) 1) the bloke sailing the boat reduces the capacity to 5 so you'd need 15 boats/trips to transport 74 people. EDIT. Clearly I'm a word removed. 1 boat maximise the profit 1 boat, get them half way across the Med get another boat repeat Thats wonderful. You bastard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Exactly. I thought it was really interesting how many assumptions we make in maths problems when trying to put things in a real world context (eg the very reason we use word problems). For example, another question that I found interesting was: A boat holds 6 people. There are 74 people. How many boats do you need?One. Just make sure it's at least twelve and a third times bigger than the current one you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 As a man who managed 30 lectures if even in four years of college, I went down the pass exams route, and can honestly say I knew next to nothing about accounting when I graduated with an accounting degree. I'd much prefer lateral thinking but that was not what I needed. If your going to have exams where there is a defined answer and your either right or wrong people are always going to learn this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frobisher Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Exactly. I thought it was really interesting how many assumptions we make in maths problems when trying to put things in a real world context (eg the very reason we use word problems). For example, another question that I found interesting was: A boat holds 6 people. There are 74 people. How many boats do you need? One. Just make sure it's at least twelve and a third times bigger than the current one you have. Reminded me of Jaws which reminded me of this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 One. Just make sure it's at least twelve and a third times bigger than the current one you have. And that the captain isn't Italian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 One. Just make sure it's at least twelve and a third times bigger than the current one you have. And that the captain isn't Italian. To be fair, there was nothing in the question about any (successful or otherwise) voyage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 What the **** going on in here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Stefan's building a boat and he wants his kids to donate wood. Being a school, the letter the kids go home with will probably demand £40 worth of wood by tomorrow or your kid ain't on the boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Stefan is taking children away on a boat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Steamboat Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 13, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 13, 2014 That's Mr Wilson to you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 That had a somewhat sinister ring to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 13, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 13, 2014 Hey i just posed a maths problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 13, 2014 Administrator Share Posted January 13, 2014 Just don't start trying to prove Noah's Ark might have been real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 There are some interesting statistics to back that up, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 As a man who managed 30 lectures if even in four years of college, I went down the pass exams route, and can honestly say I knew next to nothing about accounting when I graduated with an accounting degree. I'd much prefer lateral thinking but that was not what I needed. If your going to have exams where there is a defined answer and your either right or wrong people are always going to learn this way. To be fair, accountancy is basically bean counting anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Just don't start trying to prove Noah's Ark might have been real. Everyone knows that was a hoax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Just don't start trying to prove Noah's Ark might have been real. a great day out to give the kids a balanced view of things they have a great big model of an Ark and posters on the wall explaining how big it was and how it was done the whole experience was accentuated for us as we had no idea what it was until we got there and started readig some very, interesting, posters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 13, 2014 Administrator Share Posted January 13, 2014 Did it have the animals going in seven by seven? Especially the ones that had made their way from Australia to the middle east? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 'twas a long time ago and to be honest, it was the posters that distracted me, I was keen to point out to my missus the one that reminded families that the man is the head of the family and it's the woman's job to serve him obediently from memory, the animals had stacks of space and could wander off out of view, which made it a 'better' zoo than the cramped Bristol Zoo we'd previously been to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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