It just doesn't add up

Common Core is the biggest piece of bullshit shoved down the throats of Americans since Clinton said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". And we all know what was shoved down who's throat, there, don't we?
This article over at Patheos.com (an atheist site. And no, I don't frequent it, just followed a link to the article!) does its damnedest (pun intended) to explain the 'new and improved' version of something as immutable as mathematics being taught in a 'better' way. 

As that image also points out, Common Core doesn’t say, “Do this.” Rather, it suggests some general standards that students at each grade level should meet and most states have agreed to adopt those standards.

  There has never been anything remotely 'general' about mathematics. This is a poor example for them to use, as its a relatively simple problem with neither of the top two digits being smaller than the digit below it. However, if it were a problem such as 31 - 12, I know of two separate and distinct ways to solve the equation: 1. taking from the tens digit in 31 and adding ten to the 'ones' place. This is the whole 'borrowing' thing we all learned and it has worked for us quite well for many generations. And 2., you could just add one number higher to the tens place in the bottom and then add ten to the ones place in the top number.

Either way works, and it is a finite conclusion that the answer in my example would be 19.

 

I don't want my grandkids learning that as long as you 'get it', whatever answer you come up with is good. Its math, people. and unless you get into quantum physics, numbers are not random, and have no place holder for "close".