This is just an example of how unpopular Jeb's "Common Core" is and if you haven't been exposed to "Common Core" read the article and the explanation of how the 'new' Math works and see if you can resolve a very rudimentary Math equation. In a nutshell it's leftist liberal mental midget logic at it's best. This happened in Ohio - another state that is critical for the GOP to win. I don't see Jeb being able to take that state either and certainly not Florida.
Checking homework: Ohio dad's ridicule of Common Core goes viralAn Ohio dad frustrated with Common Core cut a check to voice his disapproval, and got more than his money's worth after posting a picture on his Facebook page.
Exasperated with a math style that has bedeviled parents around the country, Doug Herrmann, of Painesville, made out a check to Milridge Elementary, filling out the "amount" line with a dizzying array of zeroes and x's in boxes. Although he told Fox8.com that he tore the check up and later seemed reluctant to lead the charge against Common Core, it was too late after the photo went viral...
...The Common Core standards, first proposed a decade ago by a coalition of governors and school superintendents, are math and English benchmarks describing what students should know after completing each grade. Supporters insist that the standards are needed to ensure some uniformity across the nation, but critics say testing for national standards indirectly dictates curriculum, which they say undermines local control of education. More than 40 states initially signed on to Common Core, but several have repealed participation amid pressure from parents.
Herrmann was not the first parent to be flummoxed by math techniques that bear little resemblance to old school arithmetic.
One test question that garnered parental scorn asked, "Tell how to make 10 when adding 8+5."
The student wrote, “You cannot make 10 with 8 + 5,” to which the teacher apparently replied in blue ink, “Yes you can. Take 2 from 5 and add it to 8 (8+2=10) Then add 3.”...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/23/ohio-dad-posts-check-on-facebook-poking-fun-at-common-core/?intcmp=hplnws
