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Parents have slammed a 'new form of maths' being taught to kids, arguing it is 'setting them up to fail'.
Even if you're not a lover of numbers (who is when you can just use a calculator?) taking on a quiz designed for six-year-olds shouldn't be too much of a challenge. However, one set of parents were left baffled after checking their daughter's marked homework.
They noticed a seemingly obvious question had been marked 'incorrect' - but couldn't possibly figure out any other alternative. When they contacted the teacher for a much-needed explanation, they were told it was due to school's new approach to teaching maths.
Parents couldn't understand why her daughter's answer was wrong (Facebook)Taking to Facebook, mum Tiesha Sanders shared a photo of the elusive question. It shows the number 27 followed by an arrow pointing to a two-column table asking students to separate the number into 'tens' and 'ones' followed by another arrow asking pupils to enter the amount of 'ones'.
According to Kidspot, the daughter wrote a 'two' in the tens column and a 'seven' in the ones column and a 'seven' for the third answer. However, her teacher marked this as incorrect.
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"Hello, I just wanted to ask how Summer got #3 wrong?" the mum wrote on the bottom of the homework sheet. "Her father and I were going over her mistakes and wanted to be sure we were on the right track."
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The teacher says the correct answer is '27' (Facebook)The teacher replied, explaining that this is a type of 'new maths' the school is teaching - claiming the correct answer is '27'. "It wants her to know that having two tens and seven ones is the same as 27 ones," the note read.
However, thousands of riled parents took to the comments section to blast the 'goofy' question. "[It] sets them up to fail," one person wrote. While another commented: "How in the entire world is this math, mathing?" A third added: "The hell?"
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