• jj4211@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 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…

      • original2@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 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