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What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895...

http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-spin...-could-you

My cousin's fiance goes to Yale and told me about a time when they didn't even ask for high school grades, they just gave an exam. Then she showed it to me. It had Latin, Math, History, Politics, Science, and Engineering. You picked 3 of them.

Wagon boxes just 3 feet wide were advantageous in the fields, but they would hold no more than 60 bushels…
the way Obadia stacked them, you could get a couple more coomb.

(01-31-2014 08:23 AM)AngryAphid Wrote: [ -> ]Wagon boxes just 3 feet wide were advantageous in the fields, but they would hold no more than 60 bushels…
the way Obadia stacked them, you could get a couple more coomb.

A bushel is 1.244 cubic feet, but 1.25 cubic feet is used for easy math. In the problem you reference it would only hold 48 bushels. Your assumption that the width alone would limit capacity is incorrect. You didn't account for varying heights and lengths.

It's amazing how you can tell how and in what manner most kids were raised by the questions on the tests.

This test is racist!

This is a hoax that has been going around for years.

It's totally bogus.

P.S.

I could totally pass it.

I've thought about this one for awhile. The reason you think it is hard because you weren't taught that material.

I remember in 8th grade that, do does did shall will should would may might must can could. I have no idea what I'm spitting out but to this day I can spit it out on command. If the curriculum is designed to answer those questions I gaurandamntee you I could get 80% of my class to answer it. Just let me know what is on the test and I will prepare kids for it. If the op is worried about what and when we are teaching our kids. Welcome to the club, I am too but take your run of the mill kid in 1895 and put him in a run of the mill math class today and his head swims. Same in science.

They taught us a fair amount of this. Some of they more arcane terminology and such throws a lot of people off, it did me.

(01-31-2014 09:52 AM)Machiavelli Wrote: [ -> ]I've thought about this one for awhile. The reason you think it is hard because you weren't taught that material.

I remember in 8th grade that, do does did shall will should would may might must can could. I have no idea what I'm spitting out but to this day I can spit it out on command. If the curriculum is designed to answer those questions I gaurandamntee you I could get 80% of my class to answer it. Just let me know what is on the test and I will prepare kids for it. If the op is worried about what and when we are teaching our kids. Welcome to the club, I am too but take your run of the mill kid in 1895 and put him in a run of the mill math class today and his head swims. Same in science.

Exactly. Most of that curriculum is still taught, just not in that context.

Well, I don't know much KS history, and I think there are far more republics in Europe these days than back then, so they have some advantage on me. But, I could give this a go.

I wouldn't pass the grammar sections, but I can answer some of them. My son would do better b/c my wife actually teaches many of these things. She has actually created a spelling program, for English! There are actually spelling rules in English. Who knew? She has even made sales to public school teachers.

(01-31-2014 09:54 AM)200yrs2late Wrote: [ -> ]Exactly. Most of that curriculum is still taught, just not in that context.

The grammar wasn't taught to me at that level. I'd be surprised if it's taught to very many that way these days. I see value in the rigor, but I'd be bored with it. Would rather do arithmetic.

Good for her TORCH! That's great.

(01-31-2014 09:53 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: [ -> ]They taught us a fair amount of this. Some of they more arcane terminology and such throws a lot of people off, it did me.

I consider myself very grammar literate and I couldn't answer many of the grammar questions... I could partialy pass #3, #4, #6, and #7-10.

(01-31-2014 10:00 AM)Machiavelli Wrote: [ -> ]Good for her TORCH! That's great.

Thank you.

(01-31-2014 09:54 AM)200yrs2late Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-31-2014 09:52 AM)Machiavelli Wrote: [ -> ]I've thought about this one for awhile. The reason you think it is hard because you weren't taught that material.

I remember in 8th grade that, do does did shall will should would may might must can could. I have no idea what I'm spitting out but to this day I can spit it out on command. If the curriculum is designed to answer those questions I gaurandamntee you I could get 80% of my class to answer it. Just let me know what is on the test and I will prepare kids for it. If the op is worried about what and when we are teaching our kids. Welcome to the club, I am too but take your run of the mill kid in 1895 and put him in a run of the mill math class today and his head swims. Same in science.

Exactly. Most of that curriculum is still taught, just not in that context.

I was thinking that as well. If this is legit, I bet this really wasn't that hard after a year of cirriculum directed to it and the fact that a lot of it is relevant to Kansas.

This isn't an 8th grade test. It is more likely a test that was given to assess people who were planning on becoming teachers.

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp

Regardless of who it is for, every citizen should be able to do decently well on it.

(01-31-2014 09:54 AM)200yrs2late Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-31-2014 09:52 AM)Machiavelli Wrote: [ -> ]I've thought about this one for awhile. The reason you think it is hard because you weren't taught that material.

I remember in 8th grade that, do does did shall will should would may might must can could. I have no idea what I'm spitting out but to this day I can spit it out on command. If the curriculum is designed to answer those questions I gaurandamntee you I could get 80% of my class to answer it. Just let me know what is on the test and I will prepare kids for it. If the op is worried about what and when we are teaching our kids. Welcome to the club, I am too but take your run of the mill kid in 1895 and put him in a run of the mill math class today and his head swims. Same in science.

Exactly. Most of that curriculum is still taught, just not in that context.

If this is the case then I don't understand how so many youth are illiterate. ESPECIALLY when it comes to grammar.

(01-31-2014 10:18 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-31-2014 09:54 AM)200yrs2late Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-31-2014 09:52 AM)Machiavelli Wrote: [ -> ]I've thought about this one for awhile. The reason you think it is hard because you weren't taught that material.

I remember in 8th grade that, do does did shall will should would may might must can could. I have no idea what I'm spitting out but to this day I can spit it out on command. If the curriculum is designed to answer those questions I gaurandamntee you I could get 80% of my class to answer it. Just let me know what is on the test and I will prepare kids for it. If the op is worried about what and when we are teaching our kids. Welcome to the club, I am too but take your run of the mill kid in 1895 and put him in a run of the mill math class today and his head swims. Same in science.

Exactly. Most of that curriculum is still taught, just not in that context.

If this is the case then I don't understand how so many youth are illiterate. ESPECIALLY when it comes to grammar.

Texting??

(01-31-2014 10:11 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: [ -> ]Regardless of who it is for, every citizen should be able to do decently well on it.

Exactly. I'd like to see some HS students, or even college students try this out. I can understand the Science changing because of technology, but Grammar, Orthography, Geography, Arithmetic, and U.S. History should be the same, minus a century of history that has passed since then.

LET"S CALL THIS FOR WHAT IT IS!


Grammar doesn't make sense and they have a ton of conflicting rules that frustrate the masses!! THERE I SAID IT!