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10 Common Core exercises that will make you tear your hair out

10 Common Core exercises that will make you tear your hair out

"I award you no points, and may G-d have mercy on your soul."

In connection with the release of Glenn Beck's new book, "Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education," we decided to compile a list of the most absurd Common Core problems we've seen.

Feel free to tweet us your favorite problems @TheBlazeBooks with #Conform.

1. From the epic Louis CK rant

2. Just your garden variety cube stick math

3. Not your grandfather's liquid volume problem

4. Gavin McInness is nonplussed

(Image Source: Gavin McInness Instagram account) (Image Source: Gavin McInness Instagram account)

5. How to make a ten

6. Incomprehensible

7. Some poetic license in English for good measure

https://twitter.com/ColetteMoran/statuses/395967716382629889/

8. Progressive arithmetic

(Image Source: truthinamericaneducation.com) (Image Source: truthinamericaneducation.com)

9. Elegant logic 

(Image Source: news.yahoo.com) (Image Source: news.yahoo.com)

 10. Pretzel logic

(Image Source: Nationalreview.com) (Image Source: Nationalreview.com)

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Ben Weingarten is a writer, commentator, and editor at large at RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor at the Federalist and writes columns for Newsweek and the Epoch Times.
Ben Weingarten

Ben Weingarten

Ben Weingarten is a writer, commentator, and editor at large at RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor at the Federalist and writes columns for Newsweek and the Epoch Times.

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