Some of the questions aren't 5th grade level

As I said, I didn't learn about integers 'til seventh grade because our textbooks didn't have integers until we reached the seventh grade. The fifth or six grade books didn't have them, but the seventh grade books had it. So it's not my fault we didn't learn it until the seventh grade. Yes, they were new books at the time. Some areas learn things differently, so as I said it's not my fault I learned it at a later grade. It's not like they waited until high school to teach me. From what I remember back in the fifth grade we learned percentages and fractions mostly. I don't remember everything that well, so please don't ask.

"I like big tits!"

At that level, most grade school math classes still refer to Integers as "Whole Numbers". In that grade, you will be taught "whole numbers", "decimals", and then "fractions". You know this is true.

Quick being a dick.

Unless you were recently in 5th grade when you made this comment, your comment means exactly nothing. What is taught has changed considerably over the last 10 to 15 years, perhaps even further back than that.

Yes, fifth grade now is different BUT they should realize some people don't remember stuff like integers well. They should put stuff at a fifth grade level from when THEY were in the fifth grade, not what fifth graders are learning now.

"I like big tits!"

No, you did not.

Actually what is relevant here is when you learn DECIMAL numbers. You actually LEARN integers in kindergarten or when you learn to count at age 3 or 4 but you do not know that is what they are, and you do not know the relevance of them being integers until you learn about decimal numbers.

I can't remember when it was discussed explicitly when I was in school but grade 6 or 7 sounds about right.

All this side stepping the fact that you learn to deal with money in grades 2 or 3 on some level but nobody bothers to point out that these are decimal numbers and how they relate to fractions or integer numbers in any substantial way until much later.

Ironically, when I have tutored kids that have problems with math, if you give them a decimal arithmatic question they get flustered and confused but if you give them the exact same question framed as a money question they can do it no problem. The brain is a funny thing.

They taught us ALGEBRA in 4th grade. It was a heavily dumbed down version of algebra to help us to understand it, but it was algebra.

What kind of dumbass school did you go to where they didn't even teach negative numbers until 7th grade?

Although, I still remember in 1st or 2nd grade our teacher told us negative numbers didn't exist. I wanted to punch her in the face with my tiny little fist. And if I remembered specifically who it was, I'd look her up, go to her house, and punch her in the face.


However, that being said... I do agree. Some of the questions are not 5th grade (or with the new season) 4th grade level. When the contestant, all 3 kids, and their family all have no idea what the answer is, it's probably not 4th grade level.

I just saw an episode with the question "Who was the only president to serve his entire term without a vice president" (or similar wording). Their answer was Chester Arthur, but the question is nonsense, because of the "only". All four of the 19th Century vice presidents who became president on the death of their predecessors served their whole presidencies without a veep. These were Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, and Arthur, none of whom was later elected to his own term as president. Until 1967, there was no provision for replacing a vacancy in the vice presidency until the next one was elected and inaugurated.

There's a silly alternative, since the pre-1967 Constitution merely says that the powers and duties of the dead/incapacitated president devolve on the vice president. Taken literally, it would make the correct answer to the question be "no one", because each of those four would have still been his own vice president! (In fact, there was debate in 1841 over whether Tyler was really president, or merely acting as one. Tyler's point of view won.)

The question cited above: "Who was the only president to not have a vice president for two years?" wouldn't have worked either. The four above plus Madison, Pierce, Cleveland, T. Roosevelt, and Truman all went over two years without a veep.