Daily Caller – by Eric OwensThe litany of frighteningly stupid Common Core math worksheets never ends. Perhaps now, though, kids are starting to fight back in satisfyingly creative ways.
An alert reader sent The Daily Caller this image of her seven-year-old son’s perfectly reasonable homework answer. The boy attends a public elementary school in San Jose, Calif. He is in the second grade.
The math curriculum used by the school is GO Math! The publisher of GO Math! is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The parent who sent the homework question to TheDC noted that the curriculum aligns with the Common Core math standards.
“If you look closely under the math question, you will be able to see the Common Core standards in a blue-colored print that aligns to that particular question,” she explained.
The constantly burgeoning inventory of sad and hideous Common Core math problems is very long.
Just this month, for example, a frustrated dad posted his kid’s absurd Common Core-aligned math homework on Instagram.
In February, a group of Common Core-aligned math — math — lessons oozed out of the woodwork which require teachers to ask students if the 2000 presidential election was fair and which refer to Lincoln’s religion as either “liberal” or nothing.
In January, The Daily Caller also brought you a surreal, subtly cruel Common Core math worksheet.
January also brought a set of incomprehensible directions for nine-year-olds.
In December, Twitchy found the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core had produced yet until that point.
In November, Twitchy collected several more incomprehensible, unintentionally hilarious Core-aligned worksheets and tests.
Over the summer, The Daily Caller exposed a video showing a curriculum coordinator in suburban Chicago perkily explaining that Common Core allows students to be totally right if they say 3 x 4 = 11 as long as they spout something about the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer.
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Haha! Love it. When a second grader is smart enough to know what bullshit is, you know Communist Core is in trouble.
Like I’ve said before, when I was helping my education major daughter figure out Common Core..it took ME a while to figure it out–and I used to teach math in public HS! (I homeschooled both my children).
If Common Core is not dumped in all 50 states, there will be terrible consequences for American education.
“…Over the summer, The Daily Caller exposed a video showing a curriculum coordinator in suburban Chicago perkily explaining that Common Core allows students to be totally right if they say 3 x 4 = 11 as long as they spout something about the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer.”
I know!
2+2=5, because George Orwell said so and the Party is always right!
3×4=11 because Common Core says correct answers do not matter if I show the faulty reasoning. The faulty reasoning is that of the state insisting on using Common Core.
Six states DO NOT use Common Core – pathetice that any states use the dumbinh down core system.
True that Texas does not use Common Core (thank you God!), but my daughter’s” teaching math for elementary school” class uses a textbook written by a woman who helped create Common Core math and it has those blue “common core standards” for the various grades in it. (She goes to Sul Ross State in Texas) So that the reason I suppose she has to use a Common Core textbook is that at some point Common Core will be adopted in Texas. God help Texas if that happens.