Thank you for the link.* My concern isn't so much that, but ...*
  it's really the whole nature of word problems.
  [1]https://vine.co/v/eavV3pLOlmD Math is something we use
  EVERYDAY in real life.* It's practical.* It's useful.* Making it
  required learning, by whatever methodology, can be helpful. But
  it's fiction.* Word problems are fiction.* Why should they care
  about "max and ruby" and collecting bottles.* It's stupid
  because it's stupid.* There's 10,000 other ways to show the same
  thing.* I hated word problems because they tried to make me care
  about these fictional character's problems and.. fact is... I
  didn't care about their problems. It didn't translate into real
  world for me. TO me, they should set up economic transactions.*
  Kids understand that just fine.* Do plays in front of class.*
  Whatever.* I dunno.* School is gonna suck as long as they have
  statistical methodologies ruling the whole process.* Fucking
  bell curve.* Hate it.* The teaching-to-a-mythological-"average"
  stuent that doesn't exist. Bullshit.* It's such an embedded
  'thing' it's impossible to eradicate.* Still annoys me though.
  Crap. I started my rant again :P

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