SAT score decay As we all know SAT scores have been on the decline for years. The following may be the reason why. A math problem in the 60's A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is four-fifths of this price. What is his profit? A math problem in the 70's A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of porduction is four-fifths of this price, or $80. What is his profit? A math problem in the 70's using New Math A logger exchanges a set L of lumber for a set M of money. The cardinality of set M is 100, and each element is worth $1. Make 100 dots representing the elements of set M. The set C of the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set M, and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set P of profits? A math problem in the 80's A logger sells a truckload of wood for $100. His cost of production is $80, and his profit is $20. Your assignment: underline the number 20. A math problem in the 90's under Outcome Based Education. By cutting down beautiful forest trees, a logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of living? (Topic for class participation: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel?) Send this joke to a friend 1 *Question: What is one horsepower? *Answer: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second. *You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind. *Talc is found on rocks and on babies. *The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down. *When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions. *When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting. *Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. *While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating. *Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction. *South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage. *Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime. *Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south. *A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go. *There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever. *There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days. *Lime is a green-tasting rock. *Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil. *Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should. *Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there. *Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother. *Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers. *We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on. *To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. *In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's. *Clouds are high flying fogs. *I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing. *Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do. *Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does. *Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. *We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe. *Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail. *Rain is saved up in cloud banks. *In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes. *Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man. *A blizzard is when it snows sideways. *A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size. *A monsoon is a French gentleman. *Thunder is a rich source of loudness. *Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound. *It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places. *The wind is like the air, only pushier. Send this joke to a friend 2 How to Catch a White Elephant ============================= Submitted By Niels Kristian Jensen Go to an place where there are white elephants. Bring with you a muffin (with raisins). Climb a tree. When the white elephant is close, drop the muffin (with raisins) in front of it. The white elephant will be happy, and eat the muffin (with raisins). White elephants like muffins (with raisins). Repeat this procedure for five days in a row. After the fifth day, the white elephant will be used to its daily muffin (with rasins). The sixth day you climb the tree, bring with you a muffin without rasins. Drop the muffin as usual. When the white elephant finds out that the muffin lacks raisins, it will darken in anger. And then you catch it the same way as an ordinary grey elephant. Send this joke to a friend 3 The UN sponsored a competition on which nation can produce the best book on elephants. The British submited a dry historical account "The Elephant and the British Empire." The French submited a text "The Sensuality of the Elephant -- a Personal Account." The Germans submited 47 Volumes entitled "An Elementary Introduction to the Foundation of the Science of the Elephant's Ear." The Americans submited an article from "Money" magazine: "Elephants -- the Perfect Tax Shelter for the 80s" Green-Peace submited a counter-entry "Elephants -- they're better than People" The Russians submited a terse manuscript titled "The superiority of the Soviet Elephant" And submited a poem "The Joy and Freedom Brought forth by the Soviet Elephant." But the Japanese won with their Promotional Flier "We have no Elephants but wouldn't you want to buy a Honda instead" Send this joke to a friend 4 Not that my wife's the jealous type or anything, but one day at work, I had taken this temp who was filling in for my secretary to lunch in gratitude for an outstanding job on a very difficult project. As luck would have it, there was my wife waiting in the office for my return. The temp, who was truly a ravishing beauty said, "Oh, Mrs. Moore, I'm so happy to meet you. I'm your husband's new secretary." Within a single heart beat my wife quietly intoned, "OH ? Really ? Were you ???" Send this joke to a friend 5
