Are you as stupid as the British children?

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Telescopi said:
Isn't question 4 719?
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I didn't like 4, it assumed at the start the compartments were all full, and a complete rotation in the timeframe (stopping at the end) means anyone still in the door got through?

Then i realised i was over thinking it a tad.

Also i didn't like 6 because decimal points :D my mental arithmetic was far superior 6 years ago than it is now, i would have done it in no time at all at 15.

Still... i don't think anyone should have failed before question 6 at aged 15. Worrisome.
 
estebanrey said:
This means that when done in reality there would never be more than 4 people in the revolving door at any given time (as you would have to purposely miss the exit to ever get to the third segment).
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So what? What matters is flow rate. 6 people can travel through the door per rotation.
 
I think worrying about this is already out of date. My son is 4 and started reception this year. I literally cannot believe the amount of homework he has to get through. He has more homework than I did at 12 onwards.

At our first phonics meeting we were told they would be graded and separated into groups within weeks. I was staggered tbh and worried what would happen if he fell behind, could he ever catch up. The competition between parents wanting to know were your child is at is mind blowing.

What I do find strange is my son is now bringing two books home at a time where my niece at a very good school in Cambridge is 1 year older and only just started phonics and bought her first book home. It doesn't seem standard. I was shocked how quick the books step up as well. They do little reading 1 on 1 with the teacher as I used too, they expect this to be done with the parents. This was fine with 3 letter words and teaching him to blend but his current books have words like 'paraglider' and it's not like I've been taught how to correctly teach him to blend longer words.

A large section of our evenings now is taken up doing homework with a 4 year old.
 
Joshct said:
I didn't like 4, it assumed at the start the compartments were all full, and a complete rotation in the timeframe (stopping at the end) means anyone still in the door got through?

Then i realised i was over thinking it a tad.
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The process of estimating average speed up and down mt Kilomanjaro including breaks (and weather, conditions, equipment carried etc...) is a lot more complicated that working out when is the latest he can leave. He should have just worked it out himself. :mad:

Its also not particularly safe, if he is wrong in his calculations by a minute or two, or at any point on his 9 hour journey something unexpected happens, he will miss curfew.

Dangerously dumbed down.
 
dannyjo22 said:
They do little reading 1 on 1 with the teacher as I used too, they expect this to be done with the parents.
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Good, I strongly believe reading to your kids when they're young / getting them to read massively affects their educational progress.

I obviously only have anecdotal evidence, but i think parents should have to be doing this, if teachers do it then it's just a bonus.
 
Joshct said:
Good, I strongly believe reading to your kids when they're young / getting them to read massively affects their educational progress.

I obviously only have anecdotal evidence, but i think parents should have to be doing this, if teachers do it then it's just a bonus.
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Of course but then the teachers should do it too, but the class sizes are way too large so they can't give kids the 1 on 1 that lots of them require.

Last week in our Cambridge Evening news there was reception photos of all the schools in cambridge. Some of the class sizes was staggering. Would the 680m just being spent on free school dinners not be better spent on more teachers?
 
dannyjo22 said:
Of course but then the teachers should do it too, but the class sizes are way too large so they can't give kids the 1 on 1 that lots of them require.

Last week in our Cambridge Evening news there was reception photos of all the schools in cambridge. Some of the class sizes was staggering. Would the 680m just being spent on free school dinners not be better spent on more teachers?
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I was having this discussion with a few friends a few of us have wives who are teachers. The kids don't get one to one teaching and the quality has dropped as they spend more time making sure planning is correct for an ofsted that they don't teach but as long as the bit of paper is correct ofsted seem happy.

The excess money or extra funding should be found to employ "planners" who can plan lessons to a higher standard and make sure that everything that needs to be there (to please ofsted and tick all the educational boxes) is in place and then have your teachers teaching, improving the time they spend with the kids and giving them a better quality of teaching.

I know people give teachers a hard time because of holidays but they are overworked and most struggle to cope. In teens of overworking this is anecdotal but with my wife I earn over 50% more than her and I work less hours and have less stress. She works every evening and weekend to keep up with the workload whereas when I walk out the door bar the chance of the odd call I relax.

I think focus needs to be put on teaching as opposed to the kids to help support teachers but I doubt they'll do that.
 
arknor said:
I skipped 2 years of school.
I has no GCSE's at all because I never took any.
I have a learning difficulty a pretty major one.

yet still find the above questions pretty simple and straight forward.
most of them you can only fail from having no reading comprehension.

seriously my 8 year old has homework a lot like the above questions 1-3 , how the hel can a 15 year old fail unless they did not try or randomly picked an answer
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Maybe they did the test on a classroom of Vicky Pollards :D
 
RDM said:
Your working out is flawed, the answer is 720 as every 5 seconds 2 people can enter the door.

30mins in seconds is 1800 seconds.
1800/5 = 360 chances for 2 people to enter the door.
360 chances x 2 people = 720 people.
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I picked 720 for the answer.
I haven't done the maths but I believe the actual number should be either 718 or 716.
I'll leave it someone else to explain.
 
Would've got the 'Climbing Mount Fuji' right if I understood it correctly. When it said they must return by 8PM I thought they had to do the 18KM then back track it again so I doubled the time and it was 2AM. :p
 
Richie said:
Because you dont know or cant be bothered? :confused:
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I can't be bothered to do the maths precisely. :p

Basically in the first 5 seconds no-one gets in because they're still in the door. In the last 5 seconds two people could still be in the door. Therefore either 2 or 4 people don't make it inside in the 30 minutes.
 
Tomsk said:
I can't be bothered to do the maths precisely. :p

Basically in the first 5 seconds no-one gets in because they're still in the door. In the last 5 seconds two people could still be in the door. Therefore either 2 or 4 people don't make it inside in the 30 minutes.
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It depends on how you define "get in the building" the door could count as being in the building. However the working out I showed was for the person that was saying it was much less (480) rather than the odd couple of people.
 
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