The Ten Dumbest Common Core Problems
Sample questions guaranteed to make your brain hurt in all the wrong places.
By Alec Torres
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is widely denounced for imposing confusing, unhelpful experimental teaching methods. Following these methods, some have created problems that lack essential information or make no sense whatsoever.
Some 45 states and the District of Columbia have so far adopted Common Core standards, leaving students all around the United States to puzzle over mysterious logic and language devised in accordance with Common Core’s new methods.
Here are eleven Common Core–compliant problems that have caused parents, students, and even teachers to scratch their heads or respond in outrage:
1. Starting with an easily solvable problem, New York takes the simple “7+7″ and complicates it with something called “number bonds.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/article/373840/ten-dumbest-common-core-problems-alec-torres
We really are becoming a nation of fools if this stands,why complicate an easily solvable problem.
Why complicate a simple problem? Why look at something from an alternate perspective?
Because it sets the stage for solving more complicated problems; the kind that can’t be worked out on your fingers. Abstract thinking comes in handy when you’re getting into object oriented programming or solving systems of partial differential equations using numerical methods.
None of those problems were egregious except for the one that wasn’t shaded properly. I thought the rest were interesting ways of looking at familiar problems.
Carry on with your outrage, patriot.