Friday, April 4, 2014

The Craziness of Common Core

H/T Fox Nation 
A frustrated parent posted his response on Facebook to the “ridiculous” common core math homework his elementary-school age son brought home, and now it’s making the rounds on social and media outlets. 
Jeff Severt posted a copy of the common core math homework worksheet on Facebook. The document, bearing his handwritten comments, had a rather elaborate formula. In lieu of solving with a simple strategy of subtracting the smaller number from the larger one to achieve the answer, the common core math problem asked “Jack to use the number line below to solve 427-316. Find his error. Then write a letter to Jack telling him what he did right, and what he should do to fix his mistake.” 
This was Mr. Severt’s clever reply: 

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Support for common core is going to kill Jeb with Republicans. At least I hope so.

-Martha

Ohio JOE said...

You might be right Martha. I doubt it will kill him, but it certainly does not help him.

Anonymous said...

Just move the lazy kids from grade to grade. We don't need no stinking state tests says every third grader ever born in America. Oh, and one more thing - BENGHAZI! Obama sucks!