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Teacher's answer to Common Core math problem has parents steaming
sheknows ^ | 10/27/2015 | Christine McDow

Posted on 10/27/2015 9:05:45 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

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To: freedumb2003

That’s how a lot of my teachers were growing up. I got a big laugh out of that episode.


101 posted on 10/27/2015 5:08:31 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: TXnMA

Well said. And even as a “math sentence” it can depend on where you put the “emphasis”: if you read it as “5, times 3” it would be 5 + 5 + 5 again.

Idiots.


102 posted on 10/28/2015 2:35:37 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: mountainlion

“They will have buildings that fall down by themselves without the help of Terrorists.”

Have you seen the cult classic movie titled, “Idiocracy?” It is our future!


103 posted on 10/30/2015 12:10:56 PM PDT by CSM (White wine sipping, caviar munching, Georgetown cocktail circuit circulating, Perrier conservative.)
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