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Not bad for a 59 year old fart! I should have aced it. What pisses me off about these quizzes is when they do not tell you which questions you missed and the right answers. As a former instructor, I believe tests should be learning experiences. In one of the classes I taught at IBM, we used a pretest to gauge the knowledge of students at the beginning of class. Then, as we went through the class, we would reference questions on the pretest and give them the answers and prove why they were the correct answers.
Posted by denny at June 20, 2006 01:52 PMI also got 9/10. I think I missed the -7 question. What is it anyway?
Posted by: Paul on June 20, 2006 02:07 PMI'm so bad at math, I'm not even gonna try it.
My strengths lie in abstracts, colors, and wordsmithing. I let the Engineer-types handle the number-crunching for me! ;-)
--TwoDragons
Posted by: Denita TwoDragonsq on June 20, 2006 02:09 PMI sure do feel like a dumbass. Failed miserably with a 6/10. Math sucks!
Posted by: CharlieDelta on June 20, 2006 02:12 PMWhat was unusual about that test for me, is that I know in 8th grade I struggled with questions like these. Now, I can see the bigger picture. In other words, the whole problem and answer were both seen very clearly as one.
Now I know what the great mathematicians like Einstein saw whan they wrote out those long undiscernible formulas. Ha! Imagine seeing the mathematical formulation of the entire Physical Universe? Amazing.
Good thing our school system concentrates on the arts. Must be the ol' "fagola influenza syndrome."
Posted by: Willie on June 20, 2006 03:18 PM10 for 10! Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and again.
Posted by: Rick O'Shea on June 20, 2006 03:32 PM-7 is an integer.
For the one that asks what 2 is, the answer is mode.
Posted by: Ken J on June 20, 2006 03:38 PMI do no better at math than I do at spelling. Not too good at stucturing a sentence or paragraph.
This was embarrasing.
Damn integers.
Go Mavericks!!!!! And stop the whining!!!!!
Oops, off topic there. Just had to throw that in.
ditto paul
damn integers i had a lucky guess on the mode question.
Posted by: greg dicroce on June 20, 2006 04:19 PMOff Topic:
GO HEAT....THE WHITE HOT HEAT. Went to two playoff games and turned down going to Sunday night's game (dumb, I know).
Live in Ft. Liquordale, work and party in Miami.
Back to math.................the Heat in 6.
Posted by: Willie on June 20, 2006 05:06 PM9 of 10 here also. I guess Mrs. Hammer, my soon-to-be 8th grade algebra teacher at Fairview South school in Skokie, IL. was right when she suggested I take remedial algebra in summer school before starting 8th grade in 1974.
Posted by: Rob Cooper on June 20, 2006 05:57 PM9/10
I had no idea of of (10-5) with that deelywhop carroty thing meant.
Isn't -7 an integer?
Posted by: Sandy P on June 20, 2006 06:26 PM10/10, BUT the mode 2 question was a guess, so it doesn't really count. Interesting test. I'd be curious to see how many 8th graders in this day and age do well on it.
Posted by: Ray on June 20, 2006 06:29 PMWell Willie, we're all very impressed.
Posted by: Paul on June 20, 2006 06:42 PMOK, I passed 8th grade math, even got 10 for 10 on the first try. now tell me why I never seem to have my check book balanced, or money in my pocket.
No clue? I'm married, with children, DUH!
Too much fun for one guy.
Nine outa ten and I did it inside of 3 minutes. That damned "mode" question got me, too..
Posted by: Ralph Gizzip on June 20, 2006 09:04 PM10 outta 10....
Guessed the -7 as integer
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Posted by: Melissa on June 20, 2006 09:45 PM***You Passed 8th Grade Math***
Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!
Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?
http://www.blogthings.com/couldyoupasseighthgrademathquiz/
well I got 8/10 and I know I missed the -7 one, while it is an integer it also is prime (I think) and the 2 mode one is an area I never dealt with in 8th grade math 54 years ago! So sue me!
Posted by: johndeerebilly on June 20, 2006 11:03 PM9/10, without answering "If x + 4 1/3 = 7, what does x equal?"
It appears the correct answer is 2 2/3...
2 2/3 + 4 1/3 = 7 ?
for me, 7 = 21 1/3, so x does equal 17 1/3...
could someone explain me what is wrong with that?
Posted by: Prosper on June 21, 2006 05:30 AMProsper,
There is a difference between 21 1/3 = (21+1/3) = 21.3333333
and 1/3 of 21 = (21 * 1/3) which is equal to 7.
10 out of 10 here as well.
DAMN good guessing!
10 out of 10. Just don't give a geometry test.
Posted by: Tony on June 21, 2006 09:54 AMProsper,
Don't feel bad. Italians can't do fractions either. That's one of the bad things about being on the metric system. Everything is a decimal.
Thanks to Yosemite Sam and Michael.
I received 100% (10/10), and I have a documented learning disability in mathematics.
Prosper: that same question confused me, but I just solved for "x."
"If x + 4 1/3 = 7, what does x equal?"
Add -4 1/3 to both sides, leaving 0 to the left of the =, and 2 2/3 to the right. Thus, x=2 2/3
Posted by: Marksman2000 on June 21, 2006 07:01 PMOops! I mean you leave "x" to the left of the "=" not "0".
I told you I rode the midget bus to school.
Posted by: Marksman2000 on June 21, 2006 07:06 PMTen of ten. But I just had a General Algebra class last semester so....
Posted by: Deathknyte on June 22, 2006 01:37 AMI missed the mode question by hurrying.
Posted by: Mike S. on June 22, 2006 04:50 AMI agree on that -7 answer. I think it is an integer and it is also a prime number so really both should be right. Otherwise I got 9/10 and I haven't done any math for a couple of years.
Posted by: dick on June 23, 2006 08:07 PM10/10. I forgot I actually like basic algebra.
Posted by: addison on June 24, 2006 12:14 AMI got 8/10........9/10 if 7 is a prime number, goddam that "mode".
Prosper Dead Duck!!.... Why didn`t you just answer the question as posted instead of trying to ascertain some mysterious computation?
Posted by: dudley1 on June 24, 2006 02:52 PMOn that -7 question, all but the first choice is correct.
The definition of an integer is: "A member of the set of positive whole numbers (1, 2, 3, . . . ), negative whole numbers (–1, –2, –3, . . . ), and zero (0)."
The definition of a whole number is: "Any of the set of numbers including zero and all negative and positive multiples of 1."
The definition of a Prime Number is: "A whole number not divisible without a remainder by any whole number other than itself and one."
As you can see, -7 fits all three of those catagories. The only choice it doesn't fit is "irrational number" which is: "Any real number that cannot be expressed as an integer or as a ratio between two integers." The square root of -1 (Also known as the j-operator in electronics) is an example of an irrational number.
So, that particular question only makes sense if you ask which answer -7 is NOT.
Whoever made up the test shouldn't be teaching 8th grade math.
Roy