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Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?
If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week? 2 weeks?
That's how two of the problems read in homework for third graders from Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Norcross, Georgia. Another had young Frederick toting around six baskets of cotton.
Follow-up question: At an elementary school in America's south where the student population is just 5% white and 24% black, how can teachers and administrators be so ignorant?
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/slavery-references-in-3rd-grade-homework
So maybe it is more than a mere coincidence that 32 percent of U.S. public and private-school students in the class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswe...dents-compete-with-the-rest-of-the-world.html
If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week? 2 weeks?
That's how two of the problems read in homework for third graders from Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Norcross, Georgia. Another had young Frederick toting around six baskets of cotton.
Follow-up question: At an elementary school in America's south where the student population is just 5% white and 24% black, how can teachers and administrators be so ignorant?
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/slavery-references-in-3rd-grade-homework
So maybe it is more than a mere coincidence that 32 percent of U.S. public and private-school students in the class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswe...dents-compete-with-the-rest-of-the-world.html
