Algebra textbook whimsy?
Dec. 16th, 2014 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeD. has a math homework problem beginning like so: “Uyregor has a collection of six-sided number cubes.”
Is this wacky or what? In the first place, if there are any human beings on the planet named “Uyregor,” you couldn’t prove it by the Internet. Yegor, sure, or Gregor. Even an “Uyreg Orermk” on Facebook. Someone even Tweeted a photograph of this math problem at one point, asking about the name.
And then, “six-sided number cubes”? Seriously? I suspect someone with a perverse sense of humor was sitting there writing problems in the algebra book and wondering just how much they could get away with.
Is this wacky or what? In the first place, if there are any human beings on the planet named “Uyregor,” you couldn’t prove it by the Internet. Yegor, sure, or Gregor. Even an “Uyreg Orermk” on Facebook. Someone even Tweeted a photograph of this math problem at one point, asking about the name.
And then, “six-sided number cubes”? Seriously? I suspect someone with a perverse sense of humor was sitting there writing problems in the algebra book and wondering just how much they could get away with.