Tiny Humour Splash #11

Maths Is Tough

To make you laugh

Annie Trevaskis

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A glass of water with a slice of orange on the side. Something has been dropped into the glass, creating a splash.
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I have done my fair share of marking Maths GCSE papers.

One question asked pupils to work out what time they should remove a cake from the oven if it went at 1.15pm and took 2 hours and 20 minutes to cook.

One candidate thought it should be removed from the oven at 1.05pm — ten minutes before it even went in. Yummy.

Someone else thought the cheapest cost of feeding a dog (that eats half a kilogram a day) for 40 days was £4,800 (that is ONE expensive dog).

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Annie Trevaskis

I came, I wrote, I conquered. That last bit might not be true, but at least I am putting up a good fight.