Can you pass 8th grade math?

A quiz:

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/quiz/Quiz.aspx?QuizID=95

I was dumb in math in the eighth grade and I'm just as dumb now!!

I am the valedictorian of this class, bay-beeee!

Hey, why not? I are a college graduate!

Because I'm too lazy to get my calculator...

so I'll exempt myself from this one.

*smirks*

Neither is the BC, for that matter. It all depends on the quality of the teacher.

I didn't find it too hard, personally, but it's still the AP...:shrug:

....got a "F" as my final GPA and still got a 4 on the bloody exam. Ah, high school, how I miss being a slacker....*logs off to prepare for one of 5 pharmacy exams he'll have in the next 42 hours.*

I got 10 out of 10.

The one I got wrong I just guessed at.

And no calculator. Paper and pencil only.

And none of the questions were really tricky.

Mr. Bush Baud Man ! He Vedy, Vedy Baud Man !!

Not bad for a lawyer.

:-)

Bake

Forgot a cube had 6 sides, not 4!

Now for something really hard, let's try doing 8th grade PE (wheeze! cough! gag!)

My sister and I had to do math problems in our head at the supper table. Usually how much money you would make with interest. I do not like math.

It's 10th grade. Geometry isn't usually taught until after an introductory algebra class usually in 9th grade.

I'm not complaining cause I did bad (10/10), but i was a CS major. They threw in some tough ones to make you feel stupid.

I'm teaching 5th and 6th grade this year. Our math texts are aligned with our state standards (CA). I just gave the kids the end of the year test for their previous grade level to see where they were at. The end of the year 5th grade test includes 2 calculations requiring knowledge of triangle formulas. The end of the year 4th grade test requires students to take a string of numbers and give range, median, mode, and mean. Among many other things.

I could go on. The point is that the tough problems aren't uncommon. You'll find plenty of questions that tough on the standardized tests that all children in the nation are required to take, and have scores by school reported in the press.

My sister and I had to do math problems in our head at the supper table. Usually how much money you would make with interest. I do not like math.

I get a different answer.

Tell me again girls can't do math. Hah! :-)

Darth Velma

:thumbsup:

Except the Yale "new math."

Majored in Math in high school, and Art in college -- rebound effect.

my worst subject.

Good job rezmutt!! :thumbsup:

With calculators and computers, you get a little rusty...

:toast:

:toast:

I'm a math major in college. This was too easy.

eighth grade my ass. and I'm still unemployed.

Well, I still suck at geometry, those were the ones I missed....lol (well, got the congruent and trangle one)

I would be ashamed if I hadn't given I have to use a lot of math/stats/calc in my job...

Well, a B-. :)

duh, I didn't get calculating the area needed to cover the ramp and the diagonal walk across the field question.
So tell this math dummy how those should be done.

The theorum states:
a2 + b2 = c2 (read: a squared + b squared = c squared)
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/index.shtml

#4) Ramp Find the hypotenuse:
Let a=4, b=3, c=unknown hypotenuse

4 squared + 3 squared = ? squared (4x4)+(3x3)=25

16 + 9 = 25 The square root of 16 is 4, root of 9 is 3,
root of 25 is 5.

5 is the hypotenuse (the magic number!)

To calculate the area: length x width
8 x 5 = ?
The area of the carpet is 40 square feet

Same technique for the 'walking through the field' question.

I was never a good math student, now in my 40s I am trying to learn so I can get over my math anxiety.

but I don't remember doing fundamental geometry in 8th grade. What the hell was I doing in 8th grade? ;)

The cube one had me all screwed up; I was coming up with a total of 13.5 square cms, not 13.5 cms squared.

Still, when did 8th graders get put on Pythagorean theorum? I was in advanced math, circa 1976-1980 and don't recall getting put on that til 10th grade geometry. Hell, we get them up at 5:30 am and make them deal with hypoteneuses, now, do we? No wonder they're failing.

without calculator or even pen and paper

Then again, I'm getting a graduate degree in engineering...

Another poster on up the thread is correct - this is NOT 8th grade math. There is algebra on there, which for advanced kids (in my area at least) is not taught until ninth grade, which means 10th for most everyone else. Then there's geometry, which was 10th grade for the nerdy kids like me.

Once again, standardized testing, instead of being about actually seeing what students have learned, is a political creation to blame teachers for not teaching a test (and thus lower their salaries).

My answer to five was 54, stupid really..I put the value for the entire angle down rather than just for x.

I thought that third angle looked acute. :loveya:

Thanks fur the quiz newyawker, it was another nice way for me to get my mind off of daily life.

. . .had i not gotten 8th grade math questions correct, i would have had to kill myself over the embarassment given the M.S. in statistical mechanics and all.
The Professor

... I can pass (9/10) - I have an 8th grade son :)