Like everything else the government sees a need to get into everything and screw it up. I know I got a lot fewer telemarketing calls before I signed up on the DONOTCALL list. What the hell does that agency do? Why are they still there? Why won't my Senators address my questions on the subject? Am I going to have to physically show up at their office? Today I'm getting one or two of those calls a day. Look what the Dept of Energy is doing (What?). The only thing this Common Core crap will do is make more stupid people that are stuck in places like Ferguson. I'm a whiz at puzzles, I missed Grade 4 due to the vagueness of the question. In my mind 7=7, period. How was I to know they were talking about weight of the position? The other thing CC will do is guarantee that home schooling will be gone in a generation or two. No one will have the knowledge or ability to school anyone. Then the government can set up schooling camps to insure their agenda is taught. Have we all gone nuts in this country?

Before the children can answer such questions, they will most likely need remedial training in English.

when you consider the fact that this CC garbage is being fostered by the current administration demonstrates how dense the administration is. to further demonstrate that fact i heard the ignoramus who happens to occupy the living quarters of the white house say the media should concentrate on the global warming crisis and not terrorism.

They are not the worst word problems I have ever seen. The problem with word problems in math is that they are usually written by english teachers who do not understand math. They also rarely relate to the real world

I got 6 out of 6. I guess I am a sick liberal leftie.

Honestly these are not hard, BUT, these questions are not presented in the correct way in my opinion. I understand the point of the question but the method does not teach the basic skills needed to come up with the answers, especially for a 3rd grader who probably does not have the basic skills to do algebra in their head.

Common core is really screwing people up. 1 - 9th grade should be drilling the basics of language writing and math. memorize the multiplication tables, and get good at it before trying to get people to use abstract thinking.

If only we could turn communists into corpses... ;)

Most math examples are lame. ;)

The point is not to focus on the answers but how to arrive at them correctly. That means a lot of repetition and practice. Also, if you substitute a couple of variables in there, you've got a real world problem for a bill of materials...

Sheesh, I'm so confused !!

you see this over and over again. Who is writing this curriculum this way and why? Questions should be straightforward. There should be no indefinite pronouns. When I've seen some of these problems before, as an adult, I spend wasted time trying to figure out what they are actually referring to

I don't think I could have done them at those grade levels either, and I was the school math whiz.

On the first question, either of two answers could have been correct depending on how you completed it. The final question reminded me of the sort of things they ask on that new game show "Idiotest".

Challenging, all right. The arithmetic is on a child level, but they phrased that problem on an adult level.

The question asks people to be separated into groups. This is definitely one of the goals of Common Core.

Well, I was able to figure that out. All six. But I had to use adult reasoning. I had to figure out what "balance" could refer to, after reading the answers.

Now I can do this because I'm used to playing that kind of logic game. But if you asked me to do that at the grade levels listed, I seriously doubt I could have done it.

Whoever wrote that curriculum, had never taught kids. And might even have forgotten what it's like to be a kid.

but their example was lame. They had no need of the parentheses

It test your knowledge of the order of operation. You have to know to do what’s in the parenthesis first.

Jeez! The questions just seem unnecessarily convoluted, but I'm most annoyed by the last question and answer. Why the bracket? I understand that you use parenthesis and brackets to determine the order of operations, but why [350-(110+30)]x2 when (350-110-30)x2 is cleaner an more elegant?

I tell you, I'm only half joking when i surmise that one of the purposes of CC is to make parents look dumb and futher drive a wedge between the children and the parents. "Look children, your folks don't know nothing. Come to us to learn what's what."

...and challenging!

I thought so too, but then I missed a couple of the answers. I really thought I understood what they were asking. That’s just crazy.

Convolutedly flummoxing... not unlike anything else associated with Communist Corps...

Part of our advancement process is passing exams, a considerable amount of the questions are college level algebraic word problems. So far, I've aced every one of them. Yet in that disaster, I missed 2??

Of course, ours are written in a logical manner, not in Reverse Socialist Notation (twice removed).

I can't speak to the pedagogical merits of teaching word problems, but I found the questions very straightforward.

Oh wow. I like word problems..but something went awry for me. I didn’t do so hot.