Are YOU smarter than a 5th grader?

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Originally Posted by halo

I learned cursive and multiplication tables in 2nd grade.That base times heighth divided by 2 (Area of a triangle?) i think i learned in like 4th or 5th grade. First president impeached though im still not sure. Kids these days aren't getting smarter. Especially not the public schools. My friend is at a public school and said they get almost NO homework. Studies have shown that homework is very beneficial to kids in high school! I have at least about 2 hours of homework per night. Kids are getting lazier and lazier due to poor public education. American kids are not keeping up at all compared to China and India either.

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funny you should mention that.... kids in elementary in CA might be on the verge of NEVER seeing homework again... or maybe it's the highschool kids... i know one will still be getting basic homework and the other will no longer get any... atleast that's what's proposed....

After years of teachers piling it on, there's a new movement to ... Abolish homework

HAHAHAHAHa this is so fucking funny a few hours ago we were chillin at my boys house high as hell and this show came on and we were saying a lot of the same shit yall are lol the show made us want to make up a game show it doesnt seem very hard

The first dumb bastard had no fuckin clue what month Colombus Day was celebrated. Jerk off....The show was a bit slow to start and got only slower from there. 3 months at the most and it's off.

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Originally Posted by TallulahGreen

umm..Nixon???

(Yeah I totally just pulled that outta my ass)

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Nixon wasn't impeached, he resigned (like the day before he would have been impeached though) just so he could hold on to his secret tape recordings


I saw that in the news too SlipKnot, Either theyre going psycho about preparing kids for hyper competitive college entrance or the parents are just whinier

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Originally Posted by UTD Toker

B.S., this show's questions are harder than the grade. Base times heigth over 2 is taught in fourth grade? I dont think so....First president impeached is taught in the fourth grade as well?!?!

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The "base times height over 2" is the formula for a triangle. The "base" part refers to the length size of the bottom of the triangle. The "times" part means multiplying (x), and the "height", is the length of the triangle from top to bottom. "Over 2" means divide.

So it's just the formula for figuring out the area of a triangle, for example:

2cm (base)
4cm (height)
Multiply (x)
divide by 2

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2 x 4 = 8
8/2 = 4



There you go. :) I'm a closet math nerd. I love the stuff.

But I agree, 4th grade material? I think not!

I have been out of elementray school for, 15 years or so, and if that is the material they're teaching now, I would have failed for sure. I had a hard enought ime in school as it is. Bad case of ADHD that went untreated.

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Originally Posted by Nochowderforyou

The "base times height over 2" is the formula for a triangle. The "base" part refers to the length size of the bottom of the triangle. The "times" part means multiplying (x), and the "height", is the length of the triangle from top to bottom. "Over 2" means divide.

So it's just the formula for figuring out the area of a triangle, for example:

2cm (base)
4cm (height)
Multiply (x)
divide by 2

OR

2 x 4 = 8
8/2 = 4



There you go. :) I'm a closet math nerd. I love the stuff.

But I agree, 4th grade material? I think not!

I have been out of elementray school for, 15 years or so, and if that is the material they're teaching now, I would have failed for sure. I had a hard enought ime in school as it is. Bad case of ADHD that went untreated.

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:thumbsup: Thanks

I work at a California school and I've got 3rd graders doing area problems (rectangles) and 8th graders graphing f(x) problems ( I didn't hit those until college). Cursive also begins in 3rd grade. - Granny:hippy:

Didn't Howard Stern do this years ago????

I think that show is supposed to be a joke. I mean, what little 5th grade fuck knows what REM stands for. I didn't learn that until college level psychology.

very impressive Chowder...