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Alabama Teacher suspended after giving her students incredibly offensive math test
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Stiflers Mom
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I think it's actually kind of funny, if you look behind the obvious racism.
It's not worse than the Daquan memes.
It's not worse than the Daquan memes.
Ok I'll be the one to say it.
I can relate to the people who got a laugh out of this because it is quite funny - to us. We are mostly adults on here who can't even begin to find a sound reason why this teacher thought this was cool, therefore we are assuming this is one hell of a troll and that is why it's funny. We laugh about this because it's so outlandish.
But here's the catch.
This test was given to the students of this teacher.
You have to admit, that's fucked up. Such a racially charged test is almost like a reflection of how this teacher perceives their students. And that is where the laughter stopped for me.
This is degrading these students. No pun intended.
I can relate to the people who got a laugh out of this because it is quite funny - to us. We are mostly adults on here who can't even begin to find a sound reason why this teacher thought this was cool, therefore we are assuming this is one hell of a troll and that is why it's funny. We laugh about this because it's so outlandish.
But here's the catch.
This test was given to the students of this teacher.
You have to admit, that's fucked up. Such a racially charged test is almost like a reflection of how this teacher perceives their students. And that is where the laughter stopped for me.
This is degrading these students. No pun intended.
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That's fucking incredible. Promote this woman.
perfectchaos007
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Question #1 is really bothering me. I can't solve it and this is for middle schoolers? I'm so out of practice with math...
What?
HighResTomato
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Some of the responses in this thread are just vile.
The Spoony Hou
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I would think this is funny if no racism was involved, but the way it is makes me sick.
It doesn't seem like how many shots he misses has any bearing on the answer.
It doesn't seem like how many shots he misses has any bearing on the answer.
I think it's 7. The 6/10 thing is just there to throw you off.
SoulUnison
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Did someone switch her stack of papers?
Is this the educational equivalent of suicide by cop?
Is she trying to make some kind of statement?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the hell.
Is this the educational equivalent of suicide by cop?
Is she trying to make some kind of statement?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the hell.
farmerboy
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Well I laughed too. Not proud of it but I did laugh. Maybe at the sheer stupidity of it.
Love to know what her motivation/intentions were.
I'm shocked... shocked that you would find racial shit like this funny.
How is this incredible?
Why would it be 7? He uses 13 rounds per shooting, the clip (lol) holds 30 rounds. He can do 2 shootings before he needs to... err... steal ammo (???) and reload.
Why would you do that?
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The problems were very likely never meant to be serious problems, and were originally written as a joke. But to answer it seriously, let's take a look at the question:
Note that he shoots 13 bullets at each drive-by, and note that we want to find out how many drive-bys he can do before his 80 bullet clip empties and he needs to reload. The fact that he misses 6/10 shots is completely irrelevant. Therefore, it's a simple division problem. Divide the size of his clip by the number of shots per drive-by (80/13) and we get 6 drive-bys with a remainder of 2 bullets left in the clip. There's the answer.
The key is discovering that his missing 6/10 shots is irrelevant (which is a thing that some word problems do). However, let's assume that the question were worded that he needs to HIT 13 targets at each drive-by instead of SHOOT 13 bullets. This question is more complex because you need to take into account the hit percentage.
In that case, because he misses 6/10 (60%) of the time, we know he hits 4/10 (40%) of the time. We can use this to get the number of shots required to hit any target by cross multiplying: 13/x = 4/10, or x = 13 * 10 / 4, which is 32.5. So for each drive-by, to compensate for his inaccuracy, he needs to shoot 32.5 shots to hit 13 targets.
Then we can divide the clip size by the number of shots (80/32.5) which equals 2 drive-bys with 15 shots left in the clip. And there's your answer to the harder problem.
that's as many as four tens, and that's terrible.
Fucking Common Core, am I rite?
Why would you do that?
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Ugh, serves me right for not being observant... But then the second part of my explanation wouldn't work because he'd need to shoot 33 bullets to compensate for his terrible accuracy, and the clip only holds 30. So he really just needs to get good, lol. (Or better yet, for the teacher to not give the problems out in the first place...)
HP_Wuvcraft
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"They took it as a joke, and she told them that it wasn't a joke, and they had to complete it, and turn it in," Hall said of the 10-question quiz.
More like she was finally out, so she decided to tell the kids what she thought of them.
He uses 13 rounds per shooting, he doesn't kill 13 targets per shooting. Whether the rounds hit or not doesn't matter!
Aztechnology
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Should've taught the White People Method instead.
Perfect lol.
User 479360
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This is awful, but hilariously awesome at the same time. It makes learning fun.
Naw they probably thought it was funny as shit.
There is nothing educational about these questions. Most of them are poorly designed and not meant to provide learning aid. It's just hate speech rephrased with simplistic math.
The only hilarious thing about it is how brazen the teacher was to go through with the entire scheme.
Mr. Giggles
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Exactly this.
MarkMclovin
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I wish my maths questions were as funny as this. I hated maths in school.
User 479360
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It's tough to disagree with what you said. Just know that I wasn't referencing the racism, just the situations in the questions. They're more interesting than a lot of the repeated word questions you get in school.
Claude Augario
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[Racist stereotype] does [stereotypical] thing.
Wow, this is hilarious. Why were they keeping this groundbreaking and inspired teaching material from kids?
Wow, this is hilarious. Why were they keeping this groundbreaking and inspired teaching material from kids?
BibiMaghoo
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While it's clearly inappropriate, when I was a kid I would have found this pretty funny, and certainly wouldn't have grassed up the teacher to my parents for it. I think it's good to use examples other than fruit every now and then. No one gives a shit how many apples Bob has, and so I applaud at least some effort to make the questions more interesting, even if in a pretty shitty way.
Dylan Sexbang
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I'm fucking laughing. This is like a comedy skit and in an scenario outside of teaching, this would be great. Could be told me this was a Key and Peele skit and us believe it.
Agent Gibbs
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What the hell that's hilarious! it can't have been serious and if it was is the teacher a south park character? will he be in a giant naked pile of men having sex next week?
efyu_lemonardo
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I can't believe this is real!
OrlanisWorks
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