"Hello, this is the new math they have us teaching," the first-grade teacher wrote to Sanders. "It wants her to know that having 2 tens and 7 ones is the same as 27 ones." In her Facebook post ...

Also, this is 1st grade math,” the caption read. The problem required the student to split the number 27 into tens and ones and then just into ones. Her daughter, Summer, wrote that there were ...