Are YOU smarter than a 5th grader?

[bobthenuker]

Triangles are pretty cool...

[Canadien.]

Definitely the area of a triangle lmfao. I learned that in grade 7, max.

I don't get the initial question though?

[Pipe Dreams]

I don't even know what you mean by base times height over 2??????

lol area squared

Really though, my nephew is in 3rd grade this year, and he started doing MULTIPLICATION in 2nd grade! When I was in school, I didnt start doing that until 4th grade. He can write in cursive since 1st grade, and I didnt learn that until 3rd grade. Kids these days are learning at faster and faster paces.

[Breukelen advocaat]

People have not been getting â??smarterâ?� in our time, because the human brain changes very slowly. Subjects are usually taught according to the relevance of the time and/or area. There was a 19th century grade-school exam on the 'net a few years ago that was impossible for me to pass - all kinds of questions about pecks and bushels, kilometers, cubic feet, mathematics, etc., that twelve year old kids had to answer. They didn't have calculators, computers, or even electricity in those days. Maybe THEY were "smarter". :thumbsup

I know, also, that "penmanship" was much better two hundred years ago, as well. I have copies of old family documents that are extremely well written.

[BabySnookums]

umm..Nixon???

(Yeah I totally just pulled that outta my ass)

i believe they said it was Johnson...but don't quote me lol...i thought nixon too

[Thepossumdance]

luckily I dont have to worry if I am in fact smarter than a 5th grader because I am in the 5th grade

[RyanTheCaveman]

They probably are smarter...i dont deny it.

[smoking habit]

If i ever went on that show and a 5th grader beat me, i would fucking power-bomb him. That would be a sweet episode.

[memoryburner]

dam dude. we didnt learn cursive until third. Multiplication in 4th

[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.