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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?
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Ace 10 hours 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 9 hours ago
Yes. I did not love this quiz a bushel and a peck.
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Robert T 9 hours 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 8 hours 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.
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Neb 9 hours ago
Yeah, not even starting. I am not from US, and not native English speaker. I never had to memorize imperial and other similar US measurement units, nor their conversion, so have no idea about bushels to lbs rates
Araceli Levy 2 hours ago
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information, This is what I do..... 𝐉𝐨𝐛𝐀𝐭𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝟏.𝐂𝐨𝐦
Load More Replies... Ace 10 hours 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 9 hours ago
Yes. I did not love this quiz a bushel and a peck.
Load More Replies... Robert T 9 hours 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 8 hours 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... Neb 9 hours ago
Yeah, not even starting. I am not from US, and not native English speaker. I never had to memorize imperial and other similar US measurement units, nor their conversion, so have no idea about bushels to lbs rates
Araceli Levy 2 hours ago
My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information, This is what I do..... 𝐉𝐨𝐛𝐀𝐭𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝟏.𝐂𝐨𝐦
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