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This mom obliterates bizarre Common Core math question

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The litany of bizarre Common Core-aligned math worksheets never ends. In recent weeks, though, kids and parents have begun to fight back in creative ways.

In the most recent instance, New York parent Deanne Knight addressed a confusing Common Core-aligned math question, EAGnews.org reports.

Knight and her daughter, who is in first grade, encountered the question when it appeared on a worksheet from the New York Department of Education’s EngageNY lesson plan website.

The worksheet contains the words “NY’s Common Core Mathematics Curriculum.”

Like so many other worksheets based on the Common Core standards from around the country, the question forces students to review some fake student’s useless and completely unnecessary work on a very simple math problem.

After that, students and parents must do the same useless and completely unnecessary work in a way that the Common Core math problem creators deem correct.

In this particular problem, the simple math at issue is: 19 + 6. However, the correct answer requires “making new drawings in the space below.” Not only that, but students are supposed to write “a suggestion for improvement” for adding 19 and 6.

Well, Knight got fed up. In big letters, she wrote on her daughter’s worksheet: “Go back to basic math! — mom’s opinion!”

Take a look:

Common Core question courtesty of Eagnews

“This example of her homework really made me question what our state education system in New York is thinking,” Knight told EAGnews. “My child, let alone any six-year-old, in my opinion, would be hard pressed to comprehend the question being asked.”

“I was so dumbfounded by the question that I could not help but respond to the question with a grain of sarcasm and frustration,” the annoyed mom added.

The constantly burgeoning inventory of sad and hideous Common Core math problems is long and perpetually growing.

Last month, for example, The Daily Caller reported on a second grader in California who responded to a silly Common Core math question in the only really reasonable way possible. (RELATED: This second grader’s revenge against Common Core math will make your day)

Also in March, a frustrated dad posted his kid’s absurd Common Core-aligned math homework on Instagram.(RELATED: ‘Why are they making math harder?’ More absurd Common Core math problems)

In February, a group of Common Core-aligned math — math — lessons oozed out of the woodwork which require teachers to ask students if the 2000 presidential election was fair and which refer to Lincoln’s religion as either “liberal” or nothing. (RELATED: Common Core MATH lesson plans attack Reagan, list Lincoln’s religion as ‘liberal’)

In January, The Daily Caller also brought you a surreal, subtly cruel Common Core math worksheet. (RELATED: This Common Core math worksheet offers a glimpse into Kafkaesque third-grade hell)

January also brought a set of incomprehensible directions for nine-year-olds. (RELATED: Here’s another impossibly stupid Common Core math worksheet)

In December, Twitchy found the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core had produced yet until that point. (RELATED: Is this Common Core math question the worst math question in human history?)

In November, Twitchy collected several more incomprehensible, unintentionally hilarious Core-aligned worksheets and tests. (RELATED: EPIC FAIL: Parents reveal insane Common Core worksheets)

Over the summer, The Daily Caller exposed a video showing a curriculum coordinator in suburban Chicago perkily explaining that Common Core allows students to be totally right if they say 3 x 4 = 11 as long as they spout something about the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer. (RELATED: Obama math: under new Common Core, 3 x 4 = 11 [VIDEO])

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