A friend showed us some of this "homework"...damn is it jacked up past common sense.

Someone is laughing all the way to the bank and if a teacher cannot teach basic Math, Writing or English in this day and age then fire them immediately without all this jibberish. Little Johnnie and Jane need to pay attention to the work and parents need to follow up on the instruction. All this new nonsense does is muddy up the water and cause confusion.

[sarcasm]

I was durn sure the answer was Orange when I tackled this problem with my 8 yr old.

#-o

I might be a bit biased on this issue though, I would love to see more kids coming out of school with solid algebra skills... because I need people with good algebra skills.

ah, too bad. I'm good wif words, not so good wif numbahs.

Going one step further, we have a lot of good potential teachers entering the system and when their hands are so tied about what and how to teach, I can understand why many of them get discouraged and lose interest or leave. In many cases...it is not the teacher, but the system.