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Missouri Education Watchdog: Welcome to Common Core Math Standards! Slaves are Picking Apples and Gettting Beatings.

Missouri Education Watchdog: Welcome to Common Core Math Standards! Slaves are Picking Apples and Gettting Beatings.:

Welcome to Common Core Math Standards! Slaves are Picking Apples and Gettting Beatings.

Did you read the story about the outrage of a Georgia school using references to slaves picking apples in a Math problem?

Some Georgia parents are outraged after they say an elementary school used examples of slavery and beatings to teach their children about math.


The problems in question appeared on a third grader's