COMMON CORE WINE

Lately, my kids have been bringing home math homework that is, in ‘plain english’, a mother’s nightmare. The basics behind it are to form critical thinking skills, but while aiming for a higher thought process, it seems to leave out common sense. It also leaves a mother scratching her head. Insert wine glass into my hand, NOW.  Really, I am better at guessing the math with wine. (Never thought I would say that.)
Meanwhile, my son is dancing around with the elf blissfully unaware of the homework he will have to do someday, which reminds me that the elf needs a new hiding place (email me ideas, because my elf is NOT creatively placed, probably because the elf forgets to move a lot).
But back to math, with wine in hand now.

Really, there should be a drinking game attached to common core. As in, if you can guess what is going on here, you get a glass of wine, a night off, or a manicure given by your precious children. I have watched you tube videos to help me figure it all out, to which my daughter exclaimed, “that’s not what my teacher taught”… yeah, the teacher probably needs wine too.

Without completely going off my rocker, the kids’ homework got me thinking about wine and common core. Because, of COURSE there is a correlation. As with politics, I will remain sort of neutral here, only to comment that maybe drinking wine should be explained in terms of common core.  Recently my daughter brought home problems like 9+6 – easy right? As in, I had 2 glasses at the bar+2 glass at home= 4 glasses of wine.

Nope.

Now we have to take simple arithmetic, which takes seconds, and complicate it so that it takes minutes or longer for a parent (and child) to figure out… for example, 6 can decompress to 5+1 and then somehow we go to 9+1=10, which is [normally] far easier to break down and add 5 to show how it equals 15, instead of you know, adding 9+6 (and you are charting all of this)… Wine.  Please.

I figure we should start drinking wine like this. I did not have 4 glasses of wine. I had 2+1+1. Decompressed, this equates to 1 (bottle, that is). Let’s be honest – this is far more fun and doesn’t seem as bad. It’s a mother’s dream, wrapped up in a simple math problem. I’m guessing they were drinking like this when they created common core.

More this week on holiday wine suggestions, I’m trying to find some lower alcohol wines that will be perfect for holiday parties! As in 12.5% versus the 14-15% I’ve been finding lately! Trust me, its important!