It's had a few additions since last time I saw it, so I thought I'd pass it
along :-).

> Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His
> cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
>
> Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His
> cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
>
> Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set
> "M" of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth
> one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M". The
> set "C", the cost of production, contains 20 fewer points than set "M."
> Represent the set "C" as a subset of set "M" and answer the following
> question: What is the cardinality of the set "P" for profits?
>
> Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. Her
> cost of production is $80 and her profit is $20.
> Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
>
> Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger
> makes $20.
> What do you think of this way of making a living?
> Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the
> forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees?
> (There are no wrong answers.)
>
> Teaching Math in 1996: By laying off 40% of its loggers, a company
> improves its stock price from $80 to $100. How much capital gain per share
> does the CEO make by exercising his stock options at $80? Assume capital
> gains are no longer taxed, because this encourages investment.
>
> Teaching Math in 1997: A company out-sources all of its loggers. The firm
> saves on benefits, and when demand for its product is down, the logging
> work force can easily be cut back. The average logger employed by the
> company earned $50,000, had three weeks vacation, a nice retirement plan
> and medical insurance. The contracted logger charges $50 an hour. Was
> outsourcing a good move?
>
> Teaching Math in 1998: A laid-off logger with four kids at home and a
> ridiculous alimony from his first failed marriage comes into the
> logging-company corporate offices and goes postal, mowing down 16
> executives and a couple of secretaries, and gets lucky when he nails a
> politician on the premises, collecting his kickback. Was outsourcing the
> loggers a good move for the company?
>
> Teaching Math in 1999: A laid-off logger serving time in Folsom Prison
> for blowing away several people is being trained as a COBOL programmer in
> order to work on Y2K projects. What is the probability that the automatic
> cell doors will open on their own as of 00:01, 01/01/00?

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being
aware that it is counting.
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