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“Would You Graduate 8th Grade In Kansas In 1895?”: Find Out With 10 Arithmetic Questions
Imagine walking into an eighth-grade classroom in Kansas in 1895, and being handed an arithmetic exam with no calculator, no hints, and no multiple-choice answers. 📚
These weren’t trick questions. They tested the everyday math students were expected to master, including fractions and percentages, as well as interest, measurements, and long division.
So here’s your challenge: could you earn your 8th-grade diploma in Kansas back in 1895, or would these vintage math questions leave you scratching your head?
There’s only one way to find out. 🧠
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Ace 59 minutes ago
This is mostly not a tet of arithmetic at all, just intimate knowledge of an ancient system of weights and measures, plus some obscure antiquated terminology. All a bit silly. I mean would anybody, ,just a single reader here, know that "A struck bushel equals 1 1/4 cubic feet. A heaped bushel in general equals 1 1/4 struck bushels".?
Robert Benson 22 minutes ago
True. But it is somewhat interesting to see. I didn't care for the image question because the images were too small to look at without trying to click on it to zoom in.
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Roman Arendt 43 minutes ago (edited)
Okay, first question, easy peasy. Second one: I guess I have to look up if there's standardised dimensions for wheat bushels. Why, yes there are, so still kinda easy. 3rd question: Are you kidding me? 4th question: ah, go f you, BP! 😅 No, seriously: What a fresh idea. To take a look at what pupils had to put up with in other times and areas. Really interesting. But since I'm not planning a career in times gone by, I have up.
Ace 59 minutes ago
This is mostly not a tet of arithmetic at all, just intimate knowledge of an ancient system of weights and measures, plus some obscure antiquated terminology. All a bit silly. I mean would anybody, ,just a single reader here, know that "A struck bushel equals 1 1/4 cubic feet. A heaped bushel in general equals 1 1/4 struck bushels".?
Robert Benson 22 minutes ago
True. But it is somewhat interesting to see. I didn't care for the image question because the images were too small to look at without trying to click on it to zoom in.
Load More Replies... Roman Arendt 43 minutes ago (edited)
Okay, first question, easy peasy. Second one: I guess I have to look up if there's standardised dimensions for wheat bushels. Why, yes there are, so still kinda easy. 3rd question: Are you kidding me? 4th question: ah, go f you, BP! 😅 No, seriously: What a fresh idea. To take a look at what pupils had to put up with in other times and areas. Really interesting. But since I'm not planning a career in times gone by, I have up.
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