Common Core

I've never been a math wiz.  I've had a career in a field that involves a great deal of math because calculators and computers can come up with the correct answer to problems involving annoying things like logarithms  more consistently than I can.  But I can do some basic math.  Can even do it in my head sometimes if you be quiet and let me think. 

If you asked me to divide 432 by 8 I could do it in my head and it would only take a couple steps.  But my way would be wrong even if my answer was right.  Because here is how Common Core teaches kids how to do that problem:

This was done by Dan Bongino's daughter, who, having learned to do it the easy way, is now utterly confused by being forced to do it the Common Core way.  I could see me getting a big, fat F if I had to do it this way because I can't even tell what "this way" is.