{"id":6828,"date":"2014-10-14T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2014-10-14T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T20:27:14","slug":"common-core-decomposing-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/10\/14\/common-core-decomposing-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Core Decomposing Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After being exposed to the horror that is Common Core math, the <a title=\"Common Core with Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/09\/29\/common-core-with-fava-beans-and-a-nice-chianti\/\" target=\"_blank\">decomposing of numbers<\/a> rises again:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>I did not hate 1st grade common core math.&#10;Stumped by 2nd grade on day 7.&#10;It is me?  Math major. &#10;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYSAPE\">@NYSAPE<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NNptkHYsMy\">pic.twitter.com\/NNptkHYsMy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CarmenDelessio (@carmendelessio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carmendelessio\/status\/510230021391540224\">September 12, 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;According to this worksheet there is only one &#8220;correct&#8221; way of re-combobulating numbers, and the child would invariably be punished for getting the correct answer even through they do it in a perfectly valid way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just what is the correct answer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\" >\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradyloBeth\">@BradyloBeth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYSAPE\">@NYSAPE<\/a> &#10;15 is 14 &amp; 1, 14 &#8211; 4 = 10, 10 + 1 = 11, 15 &#8211; 4 = 11.   per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradyloBeth\">@BradyloBeth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CarmenDelessio (@carmendelessio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carmendelessio\/status\/510271109561077760\">September 12, 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;The real answer?\u00a0 As far as the modern state of education goes, the answer is &#8220;potato.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/10\/01\/i-am-lost-dad-who-majored-in-math-is-stumped-by-2nd-graders-common-core-math-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BxSzgBhCQAEsoyz.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Common Core Number Decompose\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BxSzgBhCQAEsoyz.png 600w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BxSzgBhCQAEsoyz-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Common Core Decomposing Nonsense \"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"After being exposed to the horror that is Common Core math, the decomposing of numbers rises again.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BxSzgBhCQAEsoyz.pngg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After being exposed to the horror that is Common Core math, the decomposing of numbers rises again: I did not hate 1st grade common core math.&#10;Stumped by 2nd grade on day 7.&#10;It is me? Math major. &#10;@NYSAPE pic.twitter.com\/NNptkHYsMy &mdash; CarmenDelessio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/10\/14\/common-core-decomposing-nonsense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[70,22,64],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-facepalm","tag-fail","tag-lulz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","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=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}