SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sometimes an answer to a question is “just because.”

But in the new Common Core world, that’s not good enough, even if that’s all the answer can or needs to be.

With Common Core, there is an overt attempt to blend subjects together. For example, math questions seek to have students write out “why” or “how” they reached their answer.

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The Daily Caller reports about a 2^nd grader’s math problem: “Mike saw 17 blue cars and 25 green cars at the store. How many cars did he see?”

The student then adds 17 and 25 to produce 41.

Then, the problem says, “Explain how the number sentence shows the problem.”

The student’s answer? “I got the answer by talking in my brain and agreed of the answer that my brain got.”

What else needs to be said?