I had one in high school in Trigonometry that came up with some funny ones. Here's one:"Rudoph is up on the roof of a house waiting for Santa to huury up and deliver the presents. Down below in the bushes 30 feet away there is a deranged hunter with a rifle. The roof is 40 feet high, and the hunter's angle of trajectory is 30 degees. Will Rudolph be killed?"
2006-07-19 06:44:14 · 10 answers · asked by ? 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Oh yes, haven't all of us? Here's some examples of new math being taught now...
1. Ramone has an AK-47 with a 30 round clip. He usually misses 6 out of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shooting. How many drive-by shootings can Ramone attempt before he has to reload?
2. Otis has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?
3. Rufus pimps 3 ho's. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Rufus's $800 per day crack habit?
4. Darius wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought for $40,000 to make 20% profit. How many ounce bags will he need to make to obtain the 20% profit?
5. Desmond gets $200 for a stolen BMW, $150 for stealing a Corvette, and $100 for a 4x4. If he steals 1 BMW, 2 Corvettes and 3 4x4's, how many more Corvettes must he steal to have $900?
6. LeRoy got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 of his hit money per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?
7. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can be sprayed with 3 eight ounce cans of spray paint with 20% paint left over?
8. Tyrone knocked up 3 girls in the gang. There are 27 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knocked up?
9. LaSheena is a lookout for the gang. LaSheena also has a Boa Constrictor that eats 3 small rats per week at a cost of $5 per rat. If LaSheena makes $700 week as a lookout, how many weeks can she feed the Boa on one week’s income?
10. Marvin steals Joe's skateboard. As Marvin skates away at 15 mph, Joe loads his 357 Magnum. If it takes Joe 20 seconds to load his piece, how far away will Marvin be when he gets whacked?
2006-07-19 06:57:27 · answer #1 · answered by loving father 5 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Usually I don't have much time to come up with creative problems and just copy some out of the book, but when I do they can be rather interesting. Sometimes I would just be creative with the names and places or what the people were doing.
One of the problems that I wrote was about a "Remember the '90s Sale" and determining the volume of the box containing the POGs.
Another that my friend made up was about the cost of a printing of the magazine Cosmo.
I wrote a distance/rate/time problem about my trip from my parents house to my school.
I did a probability example from the show Myth Busters about the toast butter side up or butter side down experiment.
My adviser at Kent had a word problem about the population of the black squirrels at the school. (Kent is famous for their black squirrels-the rest of the state has brown squires.)
2006-07-19 07:50:34 · answer #2 · answered by raz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Honors Algebra 2 teacher last year made the problems interesting. For example, when we did problems to find profit and such, she would give the farmers funny names. She would also say that they lived in Alaska, but were trying to grow cabbage and beets. She would then say, "If we don't take into account the fact that none of his vegetables would grow, what would his profit be?" She often used our names in them too. It was pretty fun. Remember though, many of the math problems teachers use, they don't make up. It is hard to make up a math problem that will work out perfectly in the way that you plan on teaching it. Many of them come off the internet.
2006-07-19 06:51:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish - I would have passed advanced math classes- my teachers just kept it simple.
I knew of a teacher that actually had you do experiments to figure out problems.
He would have had a scale model of Rudolf, Santa, Hunter, et al. Then he would have you set up the model to see if it hit or miss. I didn't find out about him until after he retired.
Still looking for one that teaches that way - in college now.
2006-07-19 09:48:48 · answer #4 · answered by Wolf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I too had one Sir in mathematics.
This question draws my attetion to my school age with my sir.
He is my fav. maths lecturer that I had ever met.
He will be so much free that he will talk like a friend with me.
There are many creative things that he used to make us especially me to work. I am his fav. student aswell. There are lots and lots of such thing that he made with me. That will be a small EPIC if I write them here.
2006-07-19 06:52:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sherlock Holmes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup. Mr. Houston, in Jr. High. He taught Geometry, and made it fun. The only math course in which I excelled.
2006-07-19 06:47:51 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. October 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. Sometimes our teachers would use our names, and events that happened to us in the problems. If I ever become a math teacher, I am doing that!
2006-07-19 06:49:22 · answer #7 · answered by M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes in collage. My calculus teacher came up with some real duzzies.
2006-07-19 06:49:08 · answer #8 · answered by Kali_girl825 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i had some teachers in school and college . they used to make subject very interesting by adding stories or some practical examples.
2006-07-19 07:59:49 · answer #9 · answered by flori 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the good ones! :)
2006-07-19 06:54:41 · answer #10 · answered by Jay H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋