WASHINGTON, D.C. – Parents continue to sound off online over new methods for math under the Common Core national standards, most recently involving the “repeated addition strategy.”

Tech Insider reports the internet was ablaze with parental ridicule of Common Core math after a user posted an image Wednesday of a multiplication problem that asks students to use “repeated addition” strategy to solve 5×3.

The student wrote “5+5+5” and was docked one point for the wrong answer, despite the fact that the student came to the correct total of 15.

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The student also got the second problem wrong, which asked for an “array” illustrating 4×6. Again, the student came to the correct answer of 24, but drew six columns of four and not four columns of six.

According to Business Insider, “Mathematically, both are correct. But under Common Core, you’re supposed to read 5×3 as ‘five groups of three.’ So ‘three groups of five’ is wrong.

“According to Common Core defenders, this method will be useful when students do more advanced math,” according to the site. “This way of reading things, for instance, can be used when student learn matrices in multivariable calculus in high school.”

Parents, however, think Common Core makes math far more complicated than it needs to be.

“I don’t know … in my day, multiplication was commutative,” Cade Herron posted to NBC Washington. “Apparently an undergraduate degree in mathematics later, I learned it wrong.”

“Common Core is destroying our high IQ child due to the BS … the state of Maryland is allowing to take place,” Scott Shirley added.

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“Get the federal government out of education!” Fbr Junior posted to Facebook.

The national Common Core education standards were adopted by nearly all states through President Obama’s Race to the Top education initiative, which encouraged states to adopt the new standards for a shot at billions in additional education funding.

“But according to the 2015 Nation’s Report Card, math scores slipped for fourth and eighth graders over the last two years” as schools implemented Common Core math, which is supposed to stress critical thinking over actually getting the correct answers, according to NBC Washington.

Numerous websites like Tech Insider and Patheos blogger The Friendly Atheist attempted to explain the rationale behind the change, and why students are getting marked down for coming to the correct answers, but the issue created a firestorm online nonetheless.

“We learned the rote tables and the tricks at the same time. Implicitly. Without billions of $$$ to educational publishers,” Malby wrote. “Thanks, Obama!”

“This is some Orwellian shit right here! Welcome to 1984 everyone! That kid gave the right answers. Let’s say what this is really about – mind control through thought manipulation,” JR Johnson added. “Four rows of six is the same as six rows of four, depending on where you stand. Five three times is no different than three five times. If you disagree then your inflexibility of thought makes you an enemy of progress.”

The “repeated addition” problem comes just a couple days after parent Larisa Settembro posted an image to Facebook of her daughter’s Common Core math assignment that read “Carole read 28 pages of a book on Monday and 103 pages on Tuesday. Is 75 pages a reasonable answer for how many more pages Carole read on Tuesday than on Monday? Explain your answer.”

The student wrote “Yes, 75 is a reasonable answer because 103-28=75.”

The teacher marked the student down one point because she did not estimate 100-30=70.

“I can’t not call out the complete insanity of this Common Core math,” Settembro wrote in the Facebook post. “Please explain to me in what crazy, backwards, make believe world this makes sense?”

She continued:

Math is FACT! Fact is 103 – 28 is ACTUALLY 75. As in actually. Factually. And yes, reasonably.

In this scary world of FAKE MATH, 75 is not the correct answer?! In order for the answer to be REASONABLE, my daughter needs to estimate and come up with the WRONG answer?!?!

This math belongs in the world of unicorns and leprechauns. Not in the real world…where numbers matter!

These are our future doctors that will be prescribing “reasonable” doses of medication, future architects that will design on “reasonable” measurements, and future engineers that will build on “reasonable” plans!

Home school is NOT the answer for me. But a change in our education system is absolutely necessary. We cannot build a future on this kind of thinking.