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Are any of you strong in math? More precisely, probability?

What's the probability of drawing a prime number out of the numbers 1 to 50? There are 15 prime numbers between 1 and 50, but the textbook I've got here says the correct answer is 19/50, not 15/50. I can't wrap my head around it - is the book wrong, or am I missing something?

Yeah, I've been breaking my face trying to figure it out. I'm guessing they got the answer wrong, because I just noticed a couple of other errors, too:

According to the book, if it usually rains 12 days in May, the chance of any given day being a rainy day is 1/2. Now, I could go with that if we're doing a "can't predict the weather, so it's always a coin-flip" kind of thing, but then the book says there's a 19/31 probability of the day not being rainy, which is 31 days minus 12 rainy ones, and the inconsistency is making me throw up a little.

Also, apparently, there's a 12/31 chance of drawing an even number between 1 and 50. Jesus Christ, didn't anyone proof-read this?

Yeah this is confusing. I mean, unless it's saying something like: "the long term probability of rain in on any day in May is 50% and we got 12/31 days with rain this year. What are the chances of this happening?" In which case you can figure it out. Maybe it's just poorly worded?

Or maybe just send the publisher a picture with a bunch of sad looking kids who just failed a math test and say how the book is ruining society's future.

I voted for Boaty.

Then again I also voted for the new Green Apple Mountain Dew flavor to be called "Gushing Granny" so I probably am not the best at naming things.

Edited, Apr 28th 2016 3:26pm by lolgaxe

Jesus Christ, man. Every time I think I know what's up with my line of work, something comes along that I am not prepared for.

It was time for the yearly physical evaluation of the students. I was chatting with the healthcare woman at work, going through her evaluation of each student. It's the usual "has good health, doesn't exercise enough, has a good understanding of safe sex" etc. Then we get to the first girl, and the healthcare woman goes "has had unprotected sexual intercourse", and I choked on my coffee. Was not prepared for the "dad reflex" to kick in there. Not sure what else she told me in the following minutes, because all I could think off was ways to hunt down that son of a *****.

I didn't think my job would involve feeling like a dad all of a sudden. Next year should prove... exhausting.

Edited, Apr 29th 2016 4:34pm by Mazra

Um, how old are the kids you teach?

Personally I could live without knowing the sexual history of my pupils. I mean knowing they know about safe sex, sure, good to know they've learned that. Has had unprotected sex? Um... yeah, let's skip to the next one already, and leave out the parts about her purple ***** and nipple clamps...

Well kudos to you, because 13-14 year olds are one heck of an age to have to deal with.

Yeah, can't say the same degree of familiarity happens on this side of the pond, but that's probably more to our detriment than anything else. We're more concerned with meeting criteria and having kids pass tests for the most part. Not to sell the teachers short or anything, they're are some making a strong effort, but it's not the same really. We're kinda lacking in the whole education thing.

Wait, what?

I think that's a given at this point, more pressing is probably your easy access to the weapons.

"I would cause bodily harm to anyone that physically or mentally has any even vaguely intimate interaction of any kind with my daughter."

I mean, ultimately probably not with someone who is concerned and such, but at the same time I'd rather people be too scared to even consider it. Pretty much a "Wow, if he'd do that to someone who only had the kid's best interest in mind, imagine what he'd do to someone that didn't?"

Edited, May 3rd 2016 1:44pm by lolgaxe

What about verbally? And what is intimate? Sex ed is a thing... stuff gets pretty tense during those weeks. Verbally, I mean. I assume we're talking "with the hopes of getting in her pants" intimate?

If not, remind me to wear Kevlar to the next parent-teacher conference.

Edit: This filter... le sigh.

Edited, May 3rd 2016 8:55pm by Mazra

You and me both, and I wish more parents were like that.

I'm not fond of having to handle the personal/emotional stuff. Never was good at that, which is why I'm teaching the older kids instead of the crybabies in primary school. Can't avoid it, though, because hormones. Also, because some parents are self-centered a**holes who care more about themselves than their kids. We're a neutral third party in all of this, so they come to us with a lot of the stuff that they're too afraid to go to their parents with. Obviously, the parents eventually find out, because, you know, we have to tell them... but the illusion of trust persists and so they keep coming. Unfortunately, a lot of parents also come to us with their emotional stuff... kind of annoying. It's like being a shrink, but for way less money.

That said, I'd rather not want to know about my students' sexual activities. It's pretty difficult to look someone in the eye and explain trigonometry to them when you know those kinds of details about them. It's bad enough when you overhear them talking about stuff because they don't know you're there. Some things cannot be unheard.

Edited, May 3rd 2016 9:54pm by Mazra