Math. It’s a horrible thing. And what make’s it even worse is teachers telling you that “it’ll come in handy one day”. Err, I’ve got a phone with a calculator on it for a reason Sir.
Can You Work Out Why This Teacher Failed A Student For Answering 5+5+5 = 15?
By
Michael Avery in
News
On 4th November 2015
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#1
No matter how much math sucks there are some things in math that are universal right? Like 1 + 1 = 2 and 5 x 3 = 15. Or so you thought, because as this American primary school student found out, the latter is not always the case
The student received a score of -1 for answering 5 x 3 = 15 and 4 x 6 = 24:
#2
No you've not lost all your math skills the answers are technically right, it's just that the working out is wrong. So the student should have written 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 instead.
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#3
This is called ‘Common Core' and most adults with school age children will tell you it freaking sucks. Instead of teaching kids to solve problems in various way they are being taught that there is only one correct way to do things. Anything else is wrong.
The debate around whether the answer is indeed right or wrong has since gone viral and has renewed the debate over common core in general what do you think?
