Christmas maths question backlash

Don't see this as a math question, did you just get all the points for writing "Certain?
or did you need to write "Certainly it does".

Wait...

Christmas day = 25 December?

or Lim(Christmas day) = 25 December
..d->359

I actually don't know WTH the correct answer is here? :wtf:
 
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No 25 Dec = 25 Dec

only if you calculate October as Octal and leave Dec as Decimal you get that joke. Which is mathematical crud anyways...
 
People, I believe this is a difficult question for some and an easy question for others. According to Wikipedia, the average African has a IQ of around 75. If you look at the issue in that context, then the question it certainly is a valid one. For the Chinese though . . .
 
2012 said:
The problem, I assume, is that without observing a Christian holiday, you can not answer that question. Religious reference should never be included in a maths paper in my opinion.
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Wrong. It's a public holiday and mostly secular these days. The only difference is Christians go to church and attach religious significance to it.
 
ave said:
Then your school obviously didn't get the memo
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I think your school got a faulty memo. The closest to this was a request by KZN education requesting that schools stop forcing Lit on to students who really should be taking core, such as those doing Accounting and Physics. It's a common problem.
 
graviti said:
I think your school got a faulty memo. The closest to this was a request by KZN education requesting that schools stop forcing Lit on to students who really should be taking core, such as those doing Accounting and Physics. It's a common problem.
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Could be, but our school no longer offer Maths lit as a subject. To compensate though the geniuses in charge have now decreed that students can no longer fail matric- so that's even worse.
 
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ave said:
Could be, but our school no longer offer Maths lit as a subject. To compensate though the geniuses in charge have now decreed that students can no longer fail matric- so that's even worse.
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We're KZN. Gauteng don't get to state that they can't fail though. That would have to come from National (Angie). In all honesty it wouldn't surprise me. The day we get that notification, I'm bailing on education and going back into IT.

I do find Lit a waste of time for 85% of students, but there are honestly those out there who cannot do Core. The worst thing they ever did was drop Standard Grade. But to turn around and say, "No Lit, and we guarantee they will not fail" is the dumbest thing they could ever do, and as dumb as our Education department is, I don't think they could be that stupid.
 
graviti said:
We're KZN. Gauteng don't get to state that they can't fail though. That would have to come from National (Angie). In all honesty it wouldn't surprise me. The day we get that notification, I'm bailing on education and going back into IT.

I do find Lit a waste of time for 85% of students, but there are honestly those out there who cannot do Core. The worst thing they ever did was drop Standard Grade. But to turn around and say, "No Lit, and we guarantee they will not fail" is the dumbest thing they could ever do, and as dumb as our Education department is, I don't think they could be that stupid.
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It wouldn't surprise me if the GDE went above the departments heads. But no jokes. They called the principals in and said from now they cannot fail matrics- those that fail will still get a matric "completion certificate". They also said that you cannot fail a kid more than once per standard. They now have to inform every student and parent of this, which should do wonders for motivation. My sister works in a school office, so Im getting all the juicy gosip fresh off the press. I've asked her to confirm the maths lit thing though.
 
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Do scholars still need to take maths up until end of grade 9?

As I can recall we already did trigonometry and more proper algebra. back then. Not calculus yet but at least got into the flow of working with more complex calculations where 2 or more variables are included and got introduced to trig. What I don't understand is that this was a must for everyone but now you can take a subject that is more useless than what you should already know by gr 10.
 
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Question 1


True or False:
Christmas will be canceled this year? Please elaborate (5 marks)

Answer: True, because 25-12-13 =0
 
This has absolutely nothing to do with probability, especially since it is related to general knowledge.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
This has absolutely nothing to do with probability, especially since it is related to general knowledge.
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Really? Read again. The question is "Is this a certainty, likely or impossible". That's a probability question.
 
Sinbad said:
Really? Read again. The question is "Is this a certainty, likely or impossible". That's a probability question.
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Is it a certainty, likely or impossible that human males have penises? That's not probability mate, that's a rephrased true/false question with a 3rd option added to give the illusion that it's a probability question. Christmas is either on the 25/12, or it's not. A coin will either land on heads or tails. A light switch is either on or off. etc.

If you are given 3 people in a room, and are asked to calculate what the odds are that one of them was born in August, that is probability.
 
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