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Mar 4, 2009 11:48 PM CST Norwegian Math Test
Karma3
Karma3Karma3Somewhere, Tamil Nadu India84 Threads 588 Posts
A Norwegian fella wants a job, but the foreman won't hire him until he passes a little math test.

Here is your first question, the foreman said. 'Without using numbers, represent the number 9.'

'Without numbers?' The Norwegian says, 'Dat's easy.' and proceeds to draw three trees.

'What's this?' the boss asks.

'Vot! you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine,' says the Norwegian.

'Fair enough,' says the boss. 'Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.'

The Norwegian stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. 'Dar ya go.'

The boss scratches his head and says, 'How on earth do you get that to represent 99?'

'Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99.'

The boss is getting worried that he's going to actually have to hire this guy, so he says, 'All right, last question.

Same rules again, but represent the number 100.'

The Norwegian fella stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, 'Dar ya go. Von hundred.'

The boss looks at the attempt. 'You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!'

The Norwegian leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, 'A little dog come along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, vich makes von hundred.'

'So, ven do I start?
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Mar 5, 2009 12:32 AM CST Norwegian Math Test
rusty_knight
rusty_knightrusty_knightGozo, Malta175 Threads 2 Polls 6,840 Posts
Very good - all kids who say they hate Mathematics should be taught this way and then their imaginations will expand and they'll soon realise that Mathematics isn't really such a dry subject at all and algebra can be about more things than mere apples and bananas!

But then it gets slightly more difficult once you introduce decimals and you have to have dirty tree dirty tree per hundred dirty trees recurring to get a turd....... I think it might take a lot more drawing! conversing laugh
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Mar 5, 2009 12:32 AM CST Norwegian Math Test
webbs
webbswebbsLexington, Michigan USA3 Threads 283 Posts
laugh laugh laugh
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