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As for the second one, without knowing about the problem, there's no way to know what's going on there. There does seem to a trend in the responses to common core, though, that people of our generation who could get through math with just memorization and no deeper understanding of the material are struggling to understand and help with their kids' homework, because the focus on so much more on that deeper understanding that the parents were never taught. It's very frustrating to the parents (and probably doesn't feel great to realize they aren't as good at math as they thought), but that doesn't mean our kids shouldn't learn[b] more than we did. 
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You are saying that the third graders know more than engineers?  Do you hear yourself?
 
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No, that's not what I said, please see where I responded above. The OP (assuming that isn't you) didn't say her husband couldn't figure it out, only she couldn't, and didn't understand his explanation.

And yes, I have no trouble believing that an non-engineer adult taught math the way it was taught when I was in school would have trouble understand third grade math today, because they weren't taught to truly understand what they were doing, they were just taught to memorize multiplication tables.[/quote]

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