Math in the USA

[JimCt]

THE EVOLUTION OF MATH...

 Last week when purchasing a burger at Burger King for $1.58, the counter girl took my $2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried.

Why do I tell you this?
Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950s...

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 sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production   is $80. Did he make a profit?

Teaching Math In 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production   is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math In 1990:
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the   preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of   $20.    What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class   participation after answering the question: How did the birds and   squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong   answers.)

Teaching Math In 2005:
Un hachero vende una carretada de maderapara $100. El costo de la   produccin es $80

[Kaczki]

Excellent.  I lost my breath laughing, then realized that it was all true.

[John Jones]

Sad but so true.

Careful Jim.  You will have me in a foul mood all day.  You can't even buy a burger down here unless you speak spanish.

[JimCt]

Same here in CT.

[John Jones]

Travelling somewhere most every week, I have found it is true everywhere.  Small town GA or NYC.  I can understand why so many want the laws enforced/changed.

[John Jones]

Top 100 Cities with Highest Percentage of Foreign-Born Residents (pop. 5000+)

(Florida takes 9 of the top 10 and I didn't bother to count the other FL listings.     )

Note that this is residents and does not include illegals.

1. Sweetwater, Florida (74.9%)
2. Fountainbleau, Florida (73.0%)
3. Hialeah, Florida (72.1%)
4. Hialeah Gardens, Florida (69.9%)
5. Westchester, Florida (69.0%)
6. West Miami, Florida (68.9%)
7. University Park, Florida (66.5%)
8. Chamblee, Georgia (66.1%)
9. Coral Terrace, Florida (66.1%)
10. Tamiami, Florida (65.4%)
11. West New York, New Jersey (65.2%)
12. Langley Park, Maryland (64.5%)
13. Doral, Florida (62.8%)
14. Seven Corners, Virginia (61.2%)
15. Miami, Florida (59.5%)
16. Mecca, California (59.4%)
17. Kendall West, Florida (59.3%)
18. Olympia Heights, Florida (58.9%)
19. Kendale Lakes, Florida (58.8%)
20. Union City, New Jersey (58.7%)
21. Westwood Lakes, Florida (58.1%)
22. Palisades Park, New Jersey (57.0%)
23. Sunny Isles Beach, Florida (56.7%)
24. Rosemead, California (56.1%)
25. Harrison, New Jersey (56.0%)
26. Huntington Park, California (56.0%)
27. Lennox, California (55.9%)
28. Miami Beach, Florida (55.6%)
29. Maywood, California (55.2%)
30. Glendale, California (54.4%)
31. North Bay Village, Florida (54.1%)
32. Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia (54.0%)
33. Huron, California (53.7%)
34. Monterey Park, California (53.5%)
35. Bell, California (53.3%)
36. Santa Ana, California (53.2%)
37. Cudahy, California (53.1%)
38. Rowland Heights, California (52.6%)
39. The Hammocks, Florida (52.5%)
40. Daly City, California (52.3%)
41. Walnut Park, California (52.2%)
42. Naples Manor, Florida (52.2%)
43. San Gabriel, California (51.9%)
44. El Monte, California (51.4%)
45. South El Monte, California (51.4%)
46. Calexico, California (51.1%)
47. Mendota, California (50.9%)
48. Alhambra, California (50.9%)
49. Orange Cove, California (50.6%)
50. Sunset, Florida (50.5%)
51. Bell Gardens, California (50.4%)
52. Arvin, California (50.4%)
53. Key Biscayne, Florida (50.2%)
54. Stone Park, Illinois (50.1%)
55. Somerton, Arizona (49.8%)
56. North Miami Beach, Florida (49.5%)
57. South Gate, California (49.3%)
58. North Fair Oaks, California (49.3%)
59. San Luis, Arizona (49.1%)
60. Livingston, California (48.8%)
61. East Los Angeles, California (48.8%)
62. North Miami, Florida (48.7%)
63. Guttenberg, New Jersey (48.7%)
64. Fairview, New Jersey (48.4%)
65. Roma, Texas (48.3%)
66. Orosi, California (48.3%)
67. Doraville, Georgia (47.9%)
68. Earlimart, California (47.8%)
69. King City, California (47.7%)
70. Miami Lakes, Florida (47.7%)
71. Lincolnia, Virginia (47.7%)
72. Milpitas, California (47.3%)
73. Country Club, Florida (47.1%)
74. South San Jose Hills, California (47.0%)
75. Coachella, California (46.9%)
76. La Homa, Texas (46.9%)
77. Greenfield, California (46.7%)
78. The Crossings, Florida (46.4%)
79. Alton North, Texas (46.4%)
80. Walnut, California (46.2%)
81. Hawaiian Gardens, California (46.0%)
82. Artesia, California (45.8%)
83. Passaic, New Jersey (45.8%)
84. Baldwin Park, California (45.7%)
85. Cerritos, California (45.6%)
86. Richmond West, Florida (45.5%)
87. Florence-Graham, California (45.4%)
88. Nogales, Arizona (45.4%)
89. New Cassel, New York (45.3%)
90. Glenvar Heights, Florida (45.1%)
91. Immokalee, Florida (45.0%)
92. Fort Lee, New Jersey (44.7%)
93. Lamont, California (44.7%)
94. Golden Glades, Florida (44.7%)
95. Watsonville, California (44.4%)
96. South Miami Heights, Florida (44.2%)
97. Union City, California (44.0%)
98. San Elizario, Texas (44.0%)
99. Elizabeth, New Jersey (43.9%)
100. East Palo Alto, California (43.7%)

http://www.city-data.com/top11.html

[John Jones]

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

By Frosty Wooldridge
February 27, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

As a teacher, I sat dumbfounded last May 16, 2005, when the Rocky Mountain News inked a story, "What Happened?" to a stunned Denver, Colorado audience. In a five year study starting in 1999 in Denver Public Schools, 5,663 students started the eighth grade. Five years later, only 1,884 graduated from high school. That's a 65 percent drop out/flunk out rate! That's pathetic, if not frightening.

What was the cause? First of all, 30,000 illegal aliens, speaking 40 different languages, attended Denver schools. Our classrooms suffered thousands of kids functionally illiterate in English with parents functionally illiterate in English and Spanish. The classrooms featured so much incompatible diversity that it created horrific tension, stabbings and death. Thus, American kids suffered a profoundly dumbed-down educational process. One in five teachers quit or transferred out of those Denver classrooms every nine month cycle during those five years.

Last week, the Denver Post announced that 30 percent of teachers in Denver schools were not coming back next year. This is a nationwide travesty. Why? As a teacher, I taught in the inner city in the 1970s. It's exasperating beyond understanding to walk into a classroom where children suffer learning disabilities, broken homes, teen pregnancies at 14, 15, 16, multiple languages and violent confrontations with other ethnic groups. It's impossible to teach. I left my idealism in the ghetto and escaped to a suburban school. But, today, teachers can't escape because over 1.5 million illegal alien students with more than 100 languages attend our kids' schools nationwide. We witness a national breakdown in education. Last week, Superintendent Roy Romer of Los Angeles public schools resigned in frustration and defeat. California schools match the violence of a war zone.

Can you imagine such a failure rate across the country? Can you imagine the consequences of an illiterate generation leading this Republic into the 21st century? Folks, this country won't make it. Where is the outrage?

It takes four aspects for a free and democratic society to maintain itself. It requires a highly educated population that can write, read, think and vote intelligently. It takes a similar moral code whereby everyone adheres to the common good. It requires a similar code of ethics whereby citizens adhere to honesty, doing what is right and maintaining those ethics throughout the social fabric. Finally, it takes a similar language that allows citizens to discuss, debate and resolve problems. We compromise all four with an invasion exceeding four million new people into the USA annually—20 million illegals to date and climbing. We allow the disintegration of our nation without a whimper. Where is the outrage?

Last Monday, February 20, 2006, the Rocky Mountain News reported, "Mile-High Drug Hub" making Denver the leading center for drug distribution in the United States. It's part of MS-13 Gang's dispersal of $128 billion in drugs crossing our border with Mexico every year. Ironically, Congress guards South Korea's border with 37,000 troops with our billions in tax dollars, pats down gray-haired ladies at our airports, spends $80 billion annually on the war on drugs, but leaves our border unguarded allowing that $128 billion in drugs to cross year after year. Additionally, terrorists from any country can walk over the Mexican border with a 99 percent chance of succeeding. Where is the outrage?

With a growing illegal alien population exceeding 300,000 in Colorado, the state House legislators on Wednesday of last week defeated six bills to stop illegal alien migration. One particular bill, HB 1134, would have given cops the ability to arrest, detain and deport illegals. It was soundly defeated after dozens of citizens, including this Coloradan, testified to support the bill's passage.

I demanded, "We are tired of being collateral damage for illegal aliens. We're tired of being raped, killed, robbed and our schools being trashed by multiple languages while our medical systems take better care of illegals than our own citizens."

Representative Francesca Natividad Coleman remarked that it was a Federal issue. I retorted, "We're the ones getting killed and raped here locally and we're tired of it." Last year, three Coloradans were killed by illegals; Greeley, Colorado suffered 270 hit and run car accidents alone; eight rapes by illegal aliens in Boulder and thousands of robberies. Where is the outrage?

To top off the crisis in our Denver schools, the Rocky Mountain News reported the next day, February 21, 2006, "Welfare Surges 45%" with an increase of 4,743 cases. They said it was tough job hunting, but neglected to mention that 300,000 illegal aliens in Colorado stole jobs from Coloradans in every sector: drywall, construction, landscaping, fast food, house painting, janitorial, paving and dozens of other jobs formerly worked by Coloradans. Where is the outrage?

Denver Mayor Hickenlooper hired illegal aliens long before he was mayor and one of his illegal employees, Raul Gomez-Garcia, killed Denver police officer Don Young last May. Hickenlooper stood in direct violation of federal laws and could have been fined $2, 000.00 per illegal alien hired (estimated at 70 working in his restaurants) and he could have gone to prison for five years. Governor Owens actually endorsed a booklet showing illegal aliens how to imbed themselves in Colorado. He aided and abetted illegal aliens, but didn't receive a slap on the wrist. Where is the outrage?

Since it's happening in my state with 300,000 illegal aliens, can you imagine what is happening in California with three million? Or, North Carolina with one million? How about Illinois with one million illegals? How about Texas with 1.5 million? I know Texans pay over $4.1 billion annually for educating their massive load of student illegals. Where is the outrage?

We're being colonized with over nine million illegal alien Mexicans crashing our schools, medical systems, language, culture, parks, tax and welfare systems. One look at the headlines of major newspapers across the country echoes and mirrors the Rocky Mountain News. Where is the outrage?

It stupefies me beyond comprehension that Americans sit back and watch this invasion of their country without any outrage. Worse, without any response! More than that--without a concern for their own kids' future! Even more horrific, the line of immigrants from Mexico (and the world) shows no sign of stopping, as the number of Mexicans grows from their current 106 million to 200 million in this century.

As I open this can of worms weekly; as I expose this accelerating national crisis weekly; as you experience its quickening day by day—I would think the outrage would reach fantastic levels. But it is not! In fact, Bush, Congress and governors of all 50 states—not only watch it happen—they actively aid and abet it. Arlan Specter of Pennsylvania wants to add another one to two million legal immigrants annually. Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy want to give amnesty to 20 million illegals and add more in a guest worker program. Utah's Chris Cannon welcomes millions of Mexicans as he encourages their takeover of our country. His sidekick Senator Orrin Hatch mirrors that sentiment. Representative Joe Baca of California actively promotes the takeover of California by Mexico as he endorses "Reconquista of Aztlan." As Mark Twain said, "Suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress; but then, I repeat myself." Twain got it right, but where is the outrage?

While 85 to 95 percent of the American public wants our borders secured, they stand around quietly sucking their thumbs while doing nothing. However, the outrage and arrogance of millions of illegal alien migrants in America advances like Paris, France's recent experience with immigration—10,000 fire bombed cars and a month-long conflagration! We watched stupidly as if it won't happen to us. Think again! Of the thousands of emails I receive, the worst and the most frightening ones are from citizens who tell me, "Keep your powder dry!"

© 2006 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved



I'm done.

[Kaczki]

Absolutly appalling.  Next thing you know spanish will be our "official" language.   :(  :x

[Kaczki]

I've gotta get this thing back to the top.  It is a real classic.

[Miguel]

I guess I´m going to the U.S to teach math soon.....  Good.  That way I could go to the Classic AS get-togethers.

[John Jones]

It really is sad.  I see it more and more.  I probably should not do it but I like to screw with cashiers, let them ring in my $20 for the chicken sandwich combo, then say "Wait, I have the 23 cents."  It totally blows their mind to try and figure the correct change.   :evil:

It started well before the foreign influence.  I blame the "Politically Correct" attitude for the dumbing down of America.  

[GoneFission]

My Spanish is not so good, but "Querría vivir en una nación hable sólo en un idioma"

See you on the water!
¡Yo le veré en el agua!

[JimCt]

...?

[John Jones]

It would want to live in a nation speak only in a language


I cheat.
http://www.freetranslation.com

These website are never quite accurate.
Hell, I don't speak good English.  I went to skool in Alabama.

[GoneFission]

John:  

Close, but maybe it loses a bit in translation.  The intended version was:

I want to live in a nation that only speaks one language.