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This Dad Wrote Out a Common Core Math Check to the School and It’s Brilliant
PJ Media ^ | 09/19/2015 | PAULA BOLYARD

Posted on 09/19/2015 10:20:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

An Ohio dad wanted to let his son’s elementary school know how frustrated his family is about Common Core math. Douglas Hermann from Painesville posted a picture on his Facebook page of a check made out to Melridge Elementary School with place value chart in place of the dollar amounts:

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If you’re unfamiliar with this method of teaching math, check out this video of a little girl demonstrating how to add three-digit numbers using both the traditional method and the Common Core method:

 

Little Girl Destroys Common Core Math in Under 2 Minutes

Hermann also wrote on his Facebook page, “It’s sad when I can’t help my second grader do his math homework. Mental math and ten-frame cards? Common core sucks!”

The Ohio father said that he didn’t actually send the check to his son’s school, but rather, posted it on Facebook as “a slam on Common Core.”

He’s not the only parent sounding off about Common Core math on social media:

 

Tried to help my third grader do his basic math homework and showing the work but I can't because… #CommonCore

— Dennis (@KramerNineGuy) September 16, 2015

How come my BabyBoomer peers cannot help their grandkids with their #CommonCore math? MATH. We're NOT talking algebra here.

— mark wonderful (@markwonderful) September 9, 2015

I had her memorize the multiplication tables this summer. I drilled her almost every day. #commoncore math is a nightmare. Conceptualist.

— Loretta the Prole (@Lorettatheprole) September 8, 2015

#commoncoremath Are they CRAZY⁉️ pic.twitter.com/d2N0TjhRmI

— Franny Brill (@TexasWench) September 1, 2015

#commoncoremath Let the games begin…

Paula is an associate editor at PJ Media. She is co-author of the eBook, 'Homeschooling: Fighting for my Children's Future' and she also writes for Ohio Conservative Review,. Married to Gary for 26 years, she is the mother of two grown sons and lives in northeast Ohio, where she dabbles in politics as a member of the Wayne County Republican Executive Committee. She describes herself as a Christian first, conservative second, and Republican third.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; commoncore; education
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1 posted on 09/19/2015 10:20:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Hilarious


2 posted on 09/19/2015 10:26:19 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SeekAndFind

Common core arithmetic/math seems designed to prevent the students from learning basic functions. It complicates the simplest problems. Rote learning was used for centuries and worked very well for the vast majority of students. The “leaders” of the educational establishment thought they could improve what worked by replacing it with a counter-intuitive system that is clunky, unwieldy and confusing. Just like “whole word” language versus phonics.

Unfortunately, it’s the children who will pay for such idiocy. Both now and in the future.


3 posted on 09/19/2015 10:28:24 AM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Don W
It complicates the simplest problems.

Which is exactly what lawyers do. Exactly what bureaucrats do. Exactly what liberals do......

4 posted on 09/19/2015 10:34:01 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I don't find anything hilarious about Common Core math....it's a LIBERAL DREAM to KEEP CHILDREN STUPID!!!

THIS is a nightmare and Bill Bennett and Jebbie should be ASHAMED of themselves for BACKING COMMON CORE!!!

The DUMBEST thing since new math.

5 posted on 09/19/2015 10:34:22 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind
ROTFL!

WTG!!

6 posted on 09/19/2015 10:35:26 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Don W

>>Common core arithmetic/math seems designed to prevent the students from learning basic functions.

A necessary step for the caste system that the Elites plan for us in the future. The lower castes will actually believe that they are inferior because they won’t know “their numbers and words” and the Bureaucrat and Elite castes will seem to be like a different species.

So, when the lower castes get told that they are to line up for eradication, they will do it like cattle in a slaughter pen.


7 posted on 09/19/2015 10:35:48 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why the HELL aren't parents UP in ARMS!! LITERALLY!!! I would be marching on the school, no I wouldn't....I would NEVER send my child to a public school.

Mr. Hermann....you aren't a good parent if you keep your child in this school.

8 posted on 09/19/2015 10:36:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I meant the check was hilarious. It was a brilliant form of criticism.

The way the girl added in the video was ridiculous. Who comes up with that stuff?


9 posted on 09/19/2015 10:36:49 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think we should support Common Core Fully, So Much so that we should be Demanding it be taught in EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA, Private and Public. It will be repealed within 1 week if we subject the children of the Ruling Class to the same standards.


10 posted on 09/19/2015 10:40:15 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Ann Archy
I don't find anything hilarious about Common Core math....it's a LIBERAL DREAM to KEEP CHILDREN STUPID!!!""""..... Years ago, when the new math came in. I tried to help my daughter and I couldn't get it. I told her to ignore what they taught and do it the old fashioned way. She said, the teachers told them to ignore the parents. That was over 40 years ago. (she went on to use the old way, lol)
11 posted on 09/19/2015 10:42:13 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: Don W

Gotta marvel at how these ‘educators’ perceive themselves as so brilliant that they can come up with ever new concepts that no one else can figure out to replace what anyone CAN figure out, easily. Our daughter was taught some form of ‘whole word’ language nonsense. She was one of the lucky ones. Figured out how to spell properly by 5th grade.


12 posted on 09/19/2015 10:45:17 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Ann Archy
Mr. Hermann....you aren't a good parent if you keep your child in this school.

42 of the 50 states have adopted the Common Core standards. There aren't too many alternatives if this guy wants to keep his kid in a public school that his taxes pay for.
13 posted on 09/19/2015 10:50:51 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Is being a good parent WORTH not giving your kids a good education?? My parents made sacrifices to send us to Catholic schools, including driving 45 minutes each way, sometimes 2 or even 3 times a day!!


14 posted on 09/19/2015 10:53:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The sad thing is that this is just the newest way to hold our kids back in math. Thirty plus years ago when I ran fast food I would train new managers on taking inventory, I was really worried then when the people had to use a calculator for math I did in my head. When I look at the crap they are teaching to my grandson I want to scream.


15 posted on 09/19/2015 10:56:58 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like a computing method used by a disturbed mind.
Maybe it was devised to divorce parents from being of any help to their kids.


16 posted on 09/19/2015 10:58:01 AM PDT by Tellurian (Obama's allegiance is to his "father's" dreams)
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To: Tellurian

Or to ensure job security for the educators trying to teach that madness


17 posted on 09/19/2015 10:59:58 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireally.supportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: SeekAndFind

CC is nothing but government sanctioned child abuse.


18 posted on 09/19/2015 11:11:28 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Don W

To this day my 25 yo cannot spell worth shite thanks to the whole word concept.


19 posted on 09/19/2015 11:14:17 AM PDT by ebersole
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To: SeekAndFind

The question 4 and 5 at the end of the post are truly moronic, even insane.

You have to do two additions or two subtractions by their method in order to do one subtraction, AND of top of that you have to use some rather sophisticated logic (base 10 number system) that’s more appropriate for a college course.


20 posted on 09/19/2015 11:18:25 AM PDT by aquila48
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