Just received this Malaysian Maths It is most alarming that many Malaysian schools teach our children the wrong things. I mean; can the children really apply what they are taught in school later in life? For example, can you imagine a mathematics question in a recent examination as follows? If an egg costs fifty cents, and if you buy 1/5 of the egg, how much would you have to pay? Who in Heavens name will want to buy 1/5 of an egg? Yet, this is how they structure the questions in Malaysian schools. -- My answer - the examiner who set the question sell Nasi Lemak part time.So, 1/5 does make sense. Why not pose questions that would be more useful later in life when one goes out into the real world? To help Malaysias Ministry of Education to come up with better quality exam questions, we are offering our free suggestions as follows:- QUESTION 1. If your father drives from Kuala Lumpur to Penang along the PLUS Highway and there are four speed traps along the way and if each speed trap could cost him RM300.00 in fines, how much in fines would he have paid by the time he reaches Penang? ANSWER (Multiple choices): 1. He would not suffer any fines as oncoming cars would flash their headlights and he would slow down before getting to the speed trap. 2. He would pay RM80.00 as RM20.00 bribe at each speed trap. During Raya time, make that Rm160. 3. If his father is an UMNO minister, then he pays nothing. QUESTION 2. If a Bumi company is awarded a RM150 million government contract, and they make a 20% profit, how much profit would be at the end of the contract period? ANSWER (Multiple choices): 1. The Chinese owners will have 0% profit as they would have to pay the Minister 10% and his bumi director 10%. 2. They would make a 300% profit due to cost overrun, which is the first progress payment they receive, after which they will abandon the project and let the government call for re-tender, and they will then re-tender again under a different bumi company name and make another 300% profit. 3. The company will not make any profit at all as all the bumi directors will go on luxury holidays traveling first class with whole family, buy one Mercedes Benz S class and one BMW 525 each, etc, etc and show a loss to avoid paying corporate tax. QUESTION 3. If the national petroleum company, Petronas, makes 5 billion Ringgit per year, how much should Petronas have in the bank after 25 years? ANSWER (Multiple Choices): 1. Nobody is supposed to know as Petronas need not show its accounts to anyone except the PM and this information comes under the Official Secrets Act. 2. Petronas will be bankrupt as all the money will be spent bailing out companies and cronies of the PM and other Ministerss children. 3. Who cares?............. We never see any of it anyway.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:35:50 +0000
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