Quiz: Could You Pass Eighth Grade Math?

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-05-19 08:06pm

I missed the cube.... I couldn't remember the formula for a cube. Ugh. Oh well. Not bad for someone who has been out of school for WAY too long.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-19 08:15pm

Got the coat one wrong. Fucking taxes.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-05-19 08:23pm

100%. Calculator would have been nice, had to break down and use a pencil and paper.

Almost overthought the CD player question, but I decided 8th graders aren't supposed to think that hard

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-19 08:31pm

Woo hoo. 16 out of 16. That's uh uh, 95%.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-05-19 08:37pm

I got a "Cannot find server" error, but I should certainly hope I'd do well, considering I have a tenth-grade final coming up in a few weeks...

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-19 08:43pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:I missed the cube.... I couldn't remember the formula for a cube. Ugh. Oh well. Not bad for someone who has been out of school for WAY too long.

There's no formula for a cube's surface area, is there? I though it was just the area of one face x 6.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-05-19 08:46pm

Darth Yoshi wrote:
Kelly Antilles wrote:I missed the cube.... I couldn't remember the formula for a cube. Ugh. Oh well. Not bad for someone who has been out of school for WAY too long.
There's no formula for a cube's surface area, is there? I though it was just the area of one face x 6.

Well, that's the formula.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-05-19 08:47pm

Darth Yoshi wrote: There's no formula for a cube's surface area, is there? I though it was just the area of one face x 6.

That is the formula.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-19 09:47pm

Oh. Well that was rather intuitive for me, and I usually don't count intuitive stuff as formulas.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-05-19 09:48pm

Hey, I thought it was pretty good for an old woman.

J · Post by J » 2003-05-19 09:56pm

Perfect score, which isn't all that surprising since I do this kind of math almost every day. Like some others here I haven't touched math in a long time, the last math course I took was introductory calculus in first year university. The most involved math I've done lately is calculating all the stuff for my income tax returns, and like my BF I'd be hard pressed to remember anything like derivatives & such.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-05-19 10:03pm

kojikun wrote:Perfect score.

Are you all retarded? Come on.

Hey, fuck you. I didn't even use pen and paper, I tried to do this all in my head, and decimals and percentages are bitches to keep right up there.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-19 10:07pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Hey, I thought it was pretty good for an old woman.

Well, if you only got the cube one wrong, then you did as well as me, who has been out of the 8th grade for about three years now. So yeah, you did pretty well--that, or I'm did horribly. *shrugs* Either works.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2003-05-19 10:22pm

Whoo hooo 16/16. All head work. The coat problem was pretty hard, but after working in retail for over a year, you can approximate taxes pretty well. I wished my calculus final I took today was as easy.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-05-19 10:42pm

I'm um.. IN 8th grade (math exam tomorrow in fact). I got 12/16, but damnit that stuff isn't like what I'm doing (Alg 1 Honors). Stupid Illinois for being so smart, and stupid Florida for being so dumb (/me imagines kicking both states right in their citizens' collective ass)

NapoleonGH · Post by **NapoleonGH** » 2003-05-19 10:45pm

Magna Cum Laude!
You clearly have a handle on what the Illinois State Board of Education thinks an 8th-grader should know.You got 16/16 correct.

I dont get this, i only get Magna Cum Laude for a perfect, isnt Suma the higher honor?

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-05-19 11:12pm

16/16

I just passed 8th grade last year, I'd hope I can remember most of it

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-05-19 11:14pm

Oh, and it was all mental too...

Sr.mal · Post by **Sr.mal** » 2003-05-19 11:20pm

Magna Cum Laude!
You clearly have a handle on what the Illinois State Board of Education thinks an 8th-grader should know.You got 16/16 correct.

Did I expect any less? NO!

Woot I've been in calculus for the last semester, I think I can handle all f my okd Geometery and Algebra.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-05-20 12:41am

Magna Cum Laude!
You clearly have a handle on what the Illinois State Board of Education thinks an 8th-grader should know.You got 16/16 correct.

Duh, THe one good thing about being educated in a midwestern hellhole is that their public institutions don't suffer from rampant idiocy in the teachers and students, only the administrators.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » 2003-05-20 01:07am

I missed the triangle one because I didn't read it right. I though they were looking for the angle, not the value of x.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » 2003-05-20 01:34am

Jill plans to put ribbon around the rim of a pot and attach a bow onto the ribbon. The bow itself will take 18 inches of the ribbon. What is the least amount of ribbon needed for one pot if the pot is 8 inches in diameter?

The correct answer is 56 according to the test but,

doesn't the circumference= 3.14xradius^2?

so c=3.14x4^2

c=3.14x16

c=50.26.......

then you have to add on the 18 inches needed for the bow. So the correct answer would be approx. 68 inches, not 56.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-20 01:40am

No. That's the formula for area. Circumference is just pi*d, or pi*2r.

Sr.mal · Post by **Sr.mal** » 2003-05-20 03:20am

Starscream wrote:Jill plans to put ribbon around the rim of a pot and attach a bow onto the ribbon. The bow itself will take 18 inches of the ribbon. What is the least amount of ribbon needed for one pot if the pot is 8 inches in diameter?

The correct answer is 56 according to the test but,

doesn't the circumference= 3.14xradius^2?

so c=3.14x4^2

c=3.14x16

c=50.26.......

then you have to add on the 18 inches needed for the bow. So the correct answer would be approx. 68 inches, not 56.

Looks like somebody switched the formula for area with the one for circumference on you. Don't feel bad I kid you.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-05-20 03:29am

Magna Cum Laude!
You clearly have a handle on what the Illinois State Board of Education thinks an 8th-grader should know.You got 16/16 correct.