Merry saboteurs

EDUCATION

We will ask the nervous ones, as well as the FSB officers, to leave. And to the students of the second-fourth grades, please - concentrate. Now we will try to solve one mathematical problem together. So, “The foreign saboteur had a task: a dark...

We will ask the nervous ones, as well as the FSB officers, to leave. And to the students of the second-fourth grades, please - concentrate. Now we will try to solve one mathematical problem together. So, "A foreign saboteur had a task: on a dark night to blow up 20 secondary schools ...". Well, yes, blow up as many as 20 schools. And what else to expect from an international terrorist?

However, more can be expected from him. We read the problem further: "The saboteur overfulfilled this task by one fifth of it ...". How! Apparently, the FSB officers left much earlier than we asked them, and the villain took advantage of the favorable situation.

And what do we need to calculate with the kids? And here is this: “How many happy children will be able to take a break from general education if it is known that 756 students languished in each bombed school?”

In this question, before the word “each”, it seems, the pretext “in” is missing, but not at all under this pretext in a number of schools in the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan, the textbook “Funny tasks” is being distributed. The brochure is distributed (and even sold) to teachers and parents so that younger students, while having fun, develop "the ability to analyze the conditions of a problem, perform arithmetic operations." Well, of course, a fun count of blown up schools will be “another step towards the development of logical, combinational, versioning, metaphorical thinking and creativity as the main characteristic of creative abilities.”

Of course, only learned people who studied well in schools that had not yet been blown up could formulate the purpose of the problem book in such a catchy way. Indeed, the educational and methodological manual for teachers and students "Funny Tasks" was published under a convincing heading: "Center for Educational Technologies of the Volga Region Branch of the Russian Academy of Education." In addition, the cover states: "Printed by decision of the editorial and publishing council of the Kazan State Pedagogical University." Scientific editor - N.M. Mochalova, doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor. The compiler is listed as Mochalova O.B., but the problem book “according to the book of G. Auster” was compiled.

Yeah! And there is a hole in a good children's writer. You can guess that he made an extreme joke about schools a long time ago, when the share of jokes here was much higher. It should also be noted that the writer prudently designated the time of the attack as “dark night”, that is, when there was no one in the schools. And the Kazan brochure was published in 2003, and not after September 2004. And yet, what is the need today to develop in kids "versional thinking" on sabotage material?

In this manual, where, we note, a lot of witty and elegant problems are collected, there is also a frightening problem about how an ogre got a job as a director in a certain school. For educational purposes, he ate, of course, not excellent students, but tomboys who were removed from lessons for bad behavior. He ate 12 students a day - he had such an appetite. But there is no need to be afraid of the cannibal: he turned up in the problem book very opportunely. Now teachers can calm the children who were frightened by an international terrorist by telling them that once the cannibal director from task number 159 stayed up late at school and got hungry. And here, out of nowhere, a saboteur from task number 2 with his explosives. Well, the director crunched it, pouring ketchup on it. And the schools are intact, and the cannibals are full.