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Article 2097 of eunet.jokes:
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Path: santra!tut!draken!kth!mcvax!hp4nl!mcvax!cernvax!emanuel
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From: emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel)
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Newsgroups: eunet.jokes
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Subject: Mathematics
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Message-ID: <946@cernvax.UUCP>
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Date: 2 Mar 89 11:20:53 GMT
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Reply-To: emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (Emanuel TM Machado)
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Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Lines: 83
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Hi!
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I got this joke that you might already know, but I haven't seen it posted
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recently:
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Reforming the teaching system is a subject of constant controversy. A group
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of high-level highly-qualified teachers studied this problem, and specially
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a question that was worrying the large majority of future students (well...,
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er... their parents): The evolution of a mathematical problem.
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You can feel the problem through this comparison:
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Teaching in the 60's:
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A farmer sells a a bag of potatoes for $100. Production costs used 4/5
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of the sales price. What was his profit?
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Traditional teaching in the 70's:
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A farmer sells a bag of potatoes for $100. Production costs used 4/5
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of sales price, that is, $80. How much was his profit?
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Modern teaching in the 70's:
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A farmer exchanges a set "P" of potatoes for a set "M" of money. The
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order of the set "M" is 100 and each element is worth $1. Make a draw
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of 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M". The set "C" of the
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production costs has 20 dots less than the set "M", so answer now the next
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question: What is the order of the set "B" of profits? (draw its elements
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in red).
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New teaching system of the 80's:
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A farmer sells a bag of potatoes for $100. Since the production costs
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were $80, the profit was $20.
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Now, underline the words "potatoes" and discuss it with your class
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neighbour.
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Reformed system of the 80's
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A privileaged Kapitalist steels injustly $20 over a beg of patatous
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analize the text and find out gramatik. ortografy and ponctuation erros and
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say something about dis process of getting reach.
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Computer Aided Instruction in the 90's:
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A sells engineer of an agriculture facility consults the Agro-BBS
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which he accesses through a PS/2 running OS/2 (50Mb hard disk, 4Mb 80 ns RAM,
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25 MHz 80386) to find out the current day's price of potatoes. He introduces
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the value in his spreadsheet program, analyses linear regression tendencies
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in his FARMMANAGER expert system, and after seeing the results in his new
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VGA-compatible multisync monitor, and saving the results in the disk (not
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forgeting to backup it) he outputs the result to a color laser printer (using
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Post Script).
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Make a drawing with your mouse of the 3-D integrated contour of a bag
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of potatoes. Next, log in the Agro-BBS and follow the instructions of the
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menu.
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Teaching in 2000's
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What's a farmer?
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Translated (free-style)
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--
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Emanuel T.M. Machado, CERN | "Science is true. | UUCP:
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_ _ | Don't be misled | emanuel@cernvax.UUCP
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/_ ____ __ __ _ </ | by facts." | FLAMES:
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/_ / / / /_ < / / /_/ <'_ /_ | -- Finagle's Creed | /dev/null
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