Are YOU smarter than a 5th grader?

[UTD Toker]

B.S., this show's questions are harder than the grade. Base times heigth over 2 is taught in fourth grade? I dont think so....First president impeached is taught in the fourth grade as well?!?!

[The X Man]

your on here quick!

[TallulahGreen]

B.S., this show's questions are harder than the grade. Base times heigth over 2 is taught in fourth grade? I dont think so....First president impeached is taught in the fourth grade as well?!?!

I don't even know what you mean by base times height over 2??????

[notransfer]

somethin like area of a triangle thats not a right triangle or somethin...fuck i feel reTardEd...

whats the answer to the president question?

[crudemood]

I don't even know what you mean by base times height over 2??????

i think thats the area of a triangle.. if i remember correctly.

[slipknotpsycho]

erm... i haven't seen anything that isn't taught in 5th grade... we started with basic geometry in 4th grade i beleive.... and that's about th eonly thing that you wouldn't come across in 5thgrade...

[TallulahGreen]

Isn't that base times height divided by two????

Oh i get it, it's the same thing.

Yeah, I totally fucking failed math.

[TallulahGreen]

somethin like area of a triangle thats not a right triangle or somethin...fuck i feel reTardEd...

whats the answer to the president question?

umm..Nixon???

(Yeah I totally just pulled that outta my ass)

[timothylearyisdead]

base times height over 2 means base times height divided by 2.
that's some algebra shit isn't it? I didn't start doing that stuff until high school, and that's about as far as i got with math.

[Matt the Funk]

i think thats the area of a triangle.. if i remember correctly.

I believe you are correct.

[bobthenuker]

Triangles are pretty cool...;)

[Canadien.]

Definitely the area of a triangle lmfao. I learned that in grade 7, max.

I don't get the initial question though?

[Pipe Dreams]

I don't even know what you mean by base times height over 2??????


lol area squared

Really though, my nephew is in 3rd grade this year, and he started doing MULTIPLICATION in 2nd grade! When I was in school, I didnt start doing that until 4th grade. He can write in cursive since 1st grade, and I didnt learn that until 3rd grade. Kids these days are learning at faster and faster paces.

[Breukelen advocaat]

People have not been getting â??smarterâ?� in our time, because the human brain changes very slowly. Subjects are usually taught according to the relevance of the time and/or area. There was a 19th century grade-school exam on the 'net a few years ago that was impossible for me to pass - all kinds of questions about pecks and bushels, kilometers, cubic feet, mathematics, etc., that twelve year old kids had to answer. They didn't have calculators, computers, or even electricity in those days. Maybe THEY were "smarter". :thumbsup

I know, also, that "penmanship" was much better two hundred years ago, as well. I have copies of old family documents that are extremely well written.

[BabySnookums]

umm..Nixon???

(Yeah I totally just pulled that outta my ass)

i believe they said it was Johnson...but don't quote me lol...i thought nixon too

[Thepossumdance]

luckily I dont have to worry if I am in fact smarter than a 5th grader because I am in the 5th grade

[RyanTheCaveman]

They probably are smarter...i dont deny it.

[smoking habit]

If i ever went on that show and a 5th grader beat me, i would fucking power-bomb him. That would be a sweet episode.

[memoryburner]

dam dude. we didnt learn cursive until third. Multiplication in 4th

[halo]

I learned cursive and multiplication tables in 2nd grade.That base times heighth divided by 2 (Area of a triangle?) i think i learned in like 4th or 5th grade. First president impeached though im still not sure. Kids these days aren't getting smarter. Especially not the public schools. My friend is at a public school and said they get almost NO homework. Studies have shown that homework is very beneficial to kids in high school! I have at least about 2 hours of homework per night. Kids are getting lazier and lazier due to poor public education. American kids are not keeping up at all compared to China and India either.

[slipknotpsycho]

I learned cursive and multiplication tables in 2nd grade.That base times heighth divided by 2 (Area of a triangle?) i think i learned in like 4th or 5th grade. First president impeached though im still not sure. Kids these days aren't getting smarter. Especially not the public schools. My friend is at a public school and said they get almost NO homework. Studies have shown that homework is very beneficial to kids in high school! I have at least about 2 hours of homework per night. Kids are getting lazier and lazier due to poor public education. American kids are not keeping up at all compared to China and India either.

funny you should mention that.... kids in elementary in CA might be on the verge of NEVER seeing homework again... or maybe it's the highschool kids... i know one will still be getting basic homework and the other will no longer get any... atleast that's what's proposed....

After years of teachers piling it on, there's a new movement to ... Abolish homework (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/ING0FLHNM21.DTL)

[GetMoney420]

HAHAHAHAHa this is so fucking funny a few hours ago we were chillin at my boys house high as hell and this show came on and we were saying a lot of the same shit yall are lol the show made us want to make up a game show it doesnt seem very hard

[NewbiePacker]

The first dumb bastard had no fuckin clue what month Colombus Day was celebrated. Jerk off....The show was a bit slow to start and got only slower from there. 3 months at the most and it's off.

[NextLineIsMine]

umm..Nixon???

(Yeah I totally just pulled that outta my ass)


Nixon wasn't impeached, he resigned (like the day before he would have been impeached though) just so he could hold on to his secret tape recordings


I saw that in the news too SlipKnot, Either theyre going psycho about preparing kids for hyper competitive college entrance or the parents are just whinier

[Nochowderforyou]

B.S., this show's questions are harder than the grade. Base times heigth over 2 is taught in fourth grade? I dont think so....First president impeached is taught in the fourth grade as well?!?!

The "base times height over 2" is the formula for a triangle. The "base" part refers to the length size of the bottom of the triangle. The "times" part means multiplying (x), and the "height", is the length of the triangle from top to bottom. "Over 2" means divide.

So it's just the formula for figuring out the area of a triangle, for example:

2cm (base)
4cm (height)
Multiply (x)
divide by 2

OR

2 x 4 = 8
8/2 = 4



There you go. :) I'm a closet math nerd. I love the stuff.

But I agree, 4th grade material? I think not!

I have been out of elementray school for, 15 years or so, and if that is the material they're teaching now, I would have failed for sure. I had a hard enought ime in school as it is. Bad case of ADHD that went untreated.

[UTD Toker]

The "base times height over 2" is the formula for a triangle. The "base" part refers to the length size of the bottom of the triangle. The "times" part means multiplying (x), and the "height", is the length of the triangle from top to bottom. "Over 2" means divide.

So it's just the formula for figuring out the area of a triangle, for example:

2cm (base)
4cm (height)
Multiply (x)
divide by 2

OR

2 x 4 = 8
8/2 = 4



There you go. :) I'm a closet math nerd. I love the stuff.

But I agree, 4th grade material? I think not!

I have been out of elementray school for, 15 years or so, and if that is the material they're teaching now, I would have failed for sure. I had a hard enought ime in school as it is. Bad case of ADHD that went untreated.

:thumbsup: Thanks

[Storm Crow]

I work at a California school and I've got 3rd graders doing area problems (rectangles) and 8th graders graphing f(x) problems ( I didn't hit those until college). Cursive also begins in 3rd grade. - Granny:hippy:

[bucknuts1870]

Didn't Howard Stern do this years ago????

[coledog855]

I think that show is supposed to be a joke. I mean, what little 5th grade fuck knows what REM stands for. I didn't learn that until college level psychology.

[Skink]

very impressive Chowder...

[Nochowderforyou]

very impressive Chowder...

Thanks! I know I can beat a 5th grader. :p

No but really, we didn't start learning Area until Grade 7, or 8 maybe. We learned Perimeter earler, but as for learning Area, Volume and Circumference, that wasn't until jr. high.

I learned the most though in high school grade math. I didn't go to much high school when I was a teenager, but I did get my HS equiv. attending a college and that's when math was actually fun. Probably because I understood it and wanted to learn, but they say when you get older things are easier to learn.

Anyways, moving on. :)

[RaoulDuke45]

the firts president impeached was andrew johnson

[Fengzi]

I think that show is supposed to be a joke. I mean, what little 5th grade fuck knows what REM stands for. I didn't learn that until college level psychology.

I know, I know, REM is that band from Georgia that was big in the 90's. Right??? Either that or Random Exited Masturbation. I suffer from that ailment myself ;)

Seriously though, it seems to me that school is getting easier. I used to date a girl who's sister taught English in high school. She was showing me papers that her students had written, that she was giving A's and B's to. They would have been D's, C's at best, when I was in school. She wanted to grade harder but was told she had to be more lenient in her grading.

Who knows, maybe they are throwing harder and garder stuff at kids these days, but it doesn't seem like they really care if they learn it anymore.

[LazySmoking420]

I think the show is biased, Who remebers anything from 5th grade? You can be rusty..seeing you never use this stuff in the real world.

[LazySmoking420]

Besides, School is nothing more than a controling device for childern.

We dont need no education.. We dont need no thought control.

[Samwhore]

Triangles are pretty cool...;)

not when its sin and cosine and tanget,

or law of sines and law of cosines

triangles get pretty tricky,

especially when you must prove when two triangles are similar using deductive reason

[slipknotpsycho]

i thought it was funny actually... the black chick made 100K, while the white dude who graduated from ucla with a 3.0 GPA only made 5k.... o.0 wtf is that shit? (btw, just incase this might get construed, i only say the black chick so people will know who i'm talking about now and in the future should this thread re-rise... the point is lmfao... that someone won like 95 more thousand, than someone who literally shoulda walked away with 1 million... )

[potsmokingnome]

that show is kind of funny lol

[Thepossumdance]

sin cos and tan are very nice when it comes to substituting in calc... they can be suprisingly helpful... but then of course they always come back to bite me in the ass in Phys C...

[Nochowderforyou]

Algebra is a neat math tool too. You'd be surprised how much you use it everyday. It can simple, or it takes time to write it out on paper. You can find unknown angles if needed for welding or building something. Unknown distances, or even simple adding of money is algebra based too.

Algebra is my favorite math thing to do. I used to get ripped in college and do my homework for hours after class. I kicked ass at it.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

lol area squared

Really though, my nephew is in 3rd grade this year, and he started doing MULTIPLICATION in 2nd grade! When I was in school, I didnt start doing that until 4th grade. He can write in cursive since 1st grade, and I didnt learn that until 3rd grade. Kids these days are learning at faster and faster paces.

That's messed up. I feel retarded. And they call me a graduate student. Lol.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Algebra is a neat math tool too. You'd be surprised how much you use it everyday. It can simple, or it takes time to write it out on paper. You can find unknown angles if needed for welding or building something. Unknown distances, or even simple adding of money is algebra based too.

Algebra is my favorite math thing to do. I used to get ripped in college and do my homework for hours after class. I kicked ass at it.

I heart algebra too! But I sucked at calculus. I got a good grade but I understood nothing, I just memorized it all. I couldn't do it now if you paid me.

[surreys princess]

did you see that chick that won the 100,000 say mexico was the biggest border (for the us)? ha.....mexico....

CANADA...

even the chicks mom was embarassed....

then she said 2 milleniums was 20 decades....lol....