{"id":5590,"date":"2014-05-03T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2014-05-03T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T17:21:16","slug":"common-core-not-even-trying-to-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/03\/common-core-not-even-trying-to-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Core: Not Even Trying to Make Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just when you thought that Common Core math problems couldn&#8217;t make less sense, something like the assignment below proves that they can make less sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Common Core&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/kekt3Zh6hH\">pic.twitter.com\/kekt3Zh6hH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Regan (@P_Daddy1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/P_Daddy1\/statuses\/448960298158796802\">March 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Clearly, the children are presumed to understand how to manipulate <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hammerspace\" target=\"_blank\">hammerspace<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/03\/27\/dumb-and-dumber-check-out-the-latest-silly-common-core-math-problem-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BjsHAycCEAAC7lw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Common Core Jugs\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BjsHAycCEAAC7lw.jpg 600w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BjsHAycCEAAC7lw-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Common Core: Not Even Trying to Make Sense\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Just when you thought that Common Core math problems couldn't make less sense, something like the assignment below proves that they can make less sense.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BjsHAycCEAAC7lw.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just when you thought that Common Core math problems couldn&#8217;t make less sense, something like the assignment below proves that they can make less sense. Common Core&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/kekt3Zh6hH &mdash; Patrick Regan (@P_Daddy1) March 26, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Clearly, the children are presumed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/03\/common-core-not-even-trying-to-make-sense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[22,86],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-fail","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5693,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions\/5693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}