I can’t wait until I’m trying to remember Algebra

You’ve all heard this rant before. This is not a new argument. Still, I’m gonna have to do it. I hadn’t really had this problem until recently. Sassy is in the 6th grade and sometimes she asks me for assistance with her math homework.

I couldn’t be worse prepared.

The real issue is the way math is taught today. I have no idea what these bullshit methods are, but I have a hell of a time figuring them out.

You know what the real problem is? They make the kids show their work. This has been the case since the ancient Greeks figured out math. I’m certain Pythagoras assigned homework on marble slabs.

“Yes, I see you got the answer but where is your work?”

Now the teachers have all these wacky solutions to figuring math that is way more fucking complicated than

12

x12

144

Now they make them do all kinds of funky shit that I can’t figure out when the old way is so damn easy.

This seriously makes me feel like a moron. I read the instructions. I try to follow the examples. This is what I get.

Please tell me I’m not the only one.