# I just read the new math question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 15, 2000, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280 "2000-11-15T08:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ashleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Ashleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashleth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/1 "2000-11-15T08:57:57Z")
Its 3 am, not sleeping blah blah blah. I just had to say that when i started reading the sample problems I just about wet myself. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/2 "2000-11-15T13:26:56Z")
Ash, welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, we’re glad to have you with us. First, I have edited your post to remove your sig line. You had used the expression “AUGGGG…H” with about a thousand letters in it, and that was screwing up the format for your post and for everyone else’s. Second, what the heck are you talking about? What math problems, where? Please provide a link so that the rest of us can have a clue. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/3 "2000-11-15T13:54:33Z")
The article is this one: [What exactly was the “new math”?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mnewmath.html). ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/4 "2000-11-15T16:28:09Z")
Oh… Thanks, picr. I was a li’l slow on the uptake this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/5 "2000-11-15T16:50:32Z")
Good job on those sample math problems CKDextHavn! 😃 I assume that the OP “wet him/herself” from laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Initial\_Entry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9a140/32.png) [@Initial\_Entry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Initial_Entry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/6 "2000-11-20T02:34:15Z")
“from laughing”? Are you sure? ---
**Author:** ![eyore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e5b9ba/32.png) [@eyore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eyore)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/7 "2000-11-28T01:27:49Z")
I am glad I was in the old math. I looked at this link and didn’t even get through the first question, grrrrrr ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-read-the-new-math-question/41280/8 "2000-11-29T23:43:08Z")
A novel by Art Hoppe draws comedy out of a large sailboat seeking a berth in a “small boat harbor.”