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Yet another painfully awful Common Core math worksheet has bubbled up courtesy of Twitter.

This time, the math is for fourth graders, according to Twitchy.

The incomprehensible directions tell the poor nine-year-old souls forced to endure the worksheet to "use number bonds to help you skip-count by seven by making ten or adding to the ones."

At the top left corner of the worksheet are the all-capitalized words "NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM."
My 9 year old sisters math homework with this "common core" shit. WHAT ARE THESE DIRECTIONS.pic.twitter.com/GNw0uumhuR

- Lauren (@HollaAtMe_Baby) January 21, 2014
A subsequent Twitter conversation between the tweeter Lauren, who is trying to make sense of the assignment for her little sister, and someone named Relle is ribald and hilarious.

This awful set of homework problems is the latest in an ever-growing series of stories demonstrating the awfulness of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a curriculum - but don't call it a curriculum! - currently being implemented by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

In December, Twitchy found the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core had produced yet until that point.

In November, Twitchy collected several more incomprehensible, unintentionally hilarious Core-aligned worksheets and tests.

In September, a father was violently arrested for expressing his frustrations about the implementation of the Common Core at a public forum in the suburbs of Baltimore.

Also, over the summer, The Daily Caller exposed a video in which a curriculum coordinator in suburban Chicago perkily explained that students can be totally right if they say 3 x 4 = 11 as long as they spout something about the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer.