• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    My kid showed me a test question from a junior high math test about construction a building in 12 months with x number of workers, how many workers do they need to hire if they want it done in 6 months.

    So I guess if you answer that question “wrong” youd be smart, and if you answer it right, management. Even a junior high student mocked it…

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      6 months ago

      I’m from the uk and they definitely shoe-horn in “real world” problems here too. In my A level exams we had to:

      • Find the volume of a vase with parametric volumes of revolution and de moivres theorum
      • Find the population of a bacterial colony with a second order decoupled differential equation
      • use polar integration to find the area of a porch

      But there were also more pure questions which was good