# What Common Core math technique was that check mocking?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-core-math-technique-was-that-check-mocking/732162 "2015-09-21T23:28:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-core-math-technique-was-that-check-mocking/732162/28 "2015-09-22T05:20:43Z")

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More ETA: [Thread about an incomprehensible CC question about triangular snowflakes.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713484) In Post #2, **Amateur Barbarian** writes:

> [@wtf is a "triangular snowflake"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-triangular-snowflake/679161/2):
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> “Poorly worded Common Core” anything is redundant. I haven’t seen a single genuinely thought-out, well-wrought or even slightly-improved aspect to this clusterfuck.
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> I don’t understand why, the harder we try to fix education, the more Marx Brothers the results get. I can only conclude that these new curricula and materials are being written by teaching professionals too stupid to actually, you know, teach.
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> ETA: GQ-quality answer: No, it’s not you; an examination of CC materials shows them to be frighteningly badly written and conceived. There is no possible sensible answer to the question.

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