1. Teaching Maths in 1970:
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production
is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
2. Teaching Maths In 1980:
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production
is 80% of the price. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Maths In 1990:
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production
is £80. How much is his profit?
4. Teaching Maths In 2000:
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production
is £80 and his profit is £20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Maths In 2005:
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.
Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might feel as the
logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit of £20.
6. Teaching Maths In 2009:
A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be
offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consulted in the
felling license.
He is also fined £100 as his chainsaw is in breach of Health and Safety
legislation as it’s deemed too dangerous and could cut something. He
has used for over 20 years without incident however he does not have
the correct certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be
a recidivist and habitual criminal. His DNA is sampled and his details
circulated throughout all government agencies.
He protests and is taken to court and fined another £100 because he is
such an easy target.
When he is released he returns to find Gypsies have cut down half his
wood to build a camp on his land.
He tries to throw them off but is arrested, prosecuted for harassing an
ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined a further £100.
While he is in jail the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell
it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a leaving BBQ of
squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving behind several tons of
rubbish and asbestos sheeting.
The forester on release is warned that failure to clear the fly-tipped
rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence. He complains and is
arrested for environmental pollution, breach of the peace and invoiced
£12,000 plus VAT for safe disposal costs by a regulated government
contractor.
Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to have to be
arrested and fined before he realizes that he is never going to make
£20 profit by hard work, and inevitably give up, sign onto the dole and
live off the state for the rest of his life?
7. Teaching Maths In 2010:
A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he can’t get a
loan to buy a new lorry because his bank has spent all his and their
money on a derivative ofsecuritized debt related to sub-prime mortgages
in Alabama and lost the lot with only some government money left to pay
a few million pound bonuses to their senior directors and the traders
who made the biggest losses.
The logger struggles to pay the £1,200 road tax on his old lorry
however, as it was built in the 1970s it no longer meets the emissions
regulations and he is forced to scrap it. Some Bulgarian loggers buy
the lorry from the scrap merchant and put it back on the road. They
undercut everyone on price for haulage and send their cash back home,
while claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives. If
questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport them at the
government’s expense. Following their holiday back home they return to
the UK with different names and fresh girls and start again.
The logger protests, is accused of being a bigoted racist, and as his
name is on the side of his old lorry he is forced to pay £1,500
registration fees as a gang master.
The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as bonuses
are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out andclaim
the difference on expenses and allowances. You do the maths.
8. Teaching Maths In 2017:
أ المسجلتبيع حموله شاحنة من الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة الانتاج
منالثمن. ما هو الربح له؟