The much-ballyhooed common core school curriculum is causing some uncommon problems outside of the classroom. So it's no wonder that elementary school students are getting frustrated over seemingly simple addition, subtraction, division and multiplication problems. Older kids are also effected as well.

The manner in which these math problems need to be solved hurts you and your kids' brains. That's right, not even college-educated parents can figure some of the bizarro common core math problems these days.

Still, the math component to common core is making a lot of money for textbook publish Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. They're eager to make a buck, even if it means producing materials with the systematic ability to dumb down our nations children.

So without further adieu, here are the top five worst common core math homework problems courtesy of The Daily Caller.

1) Using number bonds to solve what 10 plus 4 equals.

2) Mike saw 17 blue cars and 25 green cars at the toy store. How many cars did he see? Write a number sentence with a [sic] for the missing number. Explain how the number sentence shows the problem.

3) 134-52, which would seem simple enough, but in order to come to the easy answer (82) children have to fill out a series of columns.

4) A math lesson that asks students to talk about the controversial 2000 Presidential Election and come to a conclusion about the results.

5) Histograms v. Bar Graphs

Crazy huh? At least this is a bipartisan battle. Republicans and Democrats both agree that these new standards are rotten to the core. Just take a look at what people are saying about it:

Back in 2013 conservative radio host Glenn Beck warned that under "this insidious menace to our children and to our families" students would be "indoctrinated with extreme leftist ideology."

Jonathan Plucker, former director of Indiana University's Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, echoed Beck's sentiments.

"This has been a Greek tragedy," Pucker said. "These wars over standards are a very political battle, not an educational battle."

On the Democratic side of things: "The problem with national testing is that the conservatives hate national and the liberals hate testing."

Hopefully this article proved to you that kids aren't frighteningly dumb, rather the odd state-mandated common core curriculum is. After all, where else does 3x4 equal 11?

Are you a parent of a common core educated student? Do you think he or she is getting the best instruction tax-dollars can buy? Let us know in the comments section below.