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UNBELIEVABLE: 1895 kansas 8th grade arithmetic exam - Caught on Camera
Imagine walking into an eighth-grade classroom in Kansas in 1895, and being handed an arithmetic exam with no calculator, no hints, and no multiple-choice answers. 📚
These weren’t trick questions. They tested the everyday math students were expected to master, including fractions and percentages, as well as interest, measurements, and long division.
So here’s your challenge: could you earn your 8th-grade diploma in Kansas back in 1895, or would these vintage math questions leave you scratching your head?
There’s only one way to find out. 🧠
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Ace 1 hour ago
This is mostly not a tet of arithmetic at all, just intimate knowledge of an ancient system of weights and measures, plus some obscure antiquated terminology. All a bit silly. I mean would anybody, ,just a single reader here, know that "A struck bushel equals 1 1/4 cubic feet. A heaped bushel in general equals 1 1/4 struck bushels".?
Michael Largey 25 minutes ago
Yes. I did not love this quiz a bushel and a peck.
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Robert T 28 minutes ago
I can't even get started on most of these, as the US imperial system is not the same as the old UK one - there are 2240 lbs in a UK ton, but apparently only 2000 in a US one. As to bushels, are they something to do with shrubels?
Ace 12 minutes ago (edited)
I always new that there was a difference between US and UK tons, but would not have known what it was. Long ton vs. short ton springs to mind, and I think the long ton was still the unit used for (older) ship displacement tonnage when I was doing Nautical Science in the late 1970s, so it sticks in my mind.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 26 minutes ago
Any answer to #1 is correct, since they ask how would you define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. How you would do it is up to you and known only by you. They made no stipulation about your definition being right.
Ace 1 hour ago
This is mostly not a tet of arithmetic at all, just intimate knowledge of an ancient system of weights and measures, plus some obscure antiquated terminology. All a bit silly. I mean would anybody, ,just a single reader here, know that "A struck bushel equals 1 1/4 cubic feet. A heaped bushel in general equals 1 1/4 struck bushels".?
Michael Largey 25 minutes ago
Yes. I did not love this quiz a bushel and a peck.
Load More Replies... Robert T 28 minutes ago
I can't even get started on most of these, as the US imperial system is not the same as the old UK one - there are 2240 lbs in a UK ton, but apparently only 2000 in a US one. As to bushels, are they something to do with shrubels?
Ace 12 minutes ago (edited)
I always new that there was a difference between US and UK tons, but would not have known what it was. Long ton vs. short ton springs to mind, and I think the long ton was still the unit used for (older) ship displacement tonnage when I was doing Nautical Science in the late 1970s, so it sticks in my mind.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 26 minutes ago
Any answer to #1 is correct, since they ask how would you define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. How you would do it is up to you and known only by you. They made no stipulation about your definition being right.
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