Mililani Mauka Elementary, 1st grade take home sheet.  It was diagrams of scales (fulcrum type).  The math part was simple addition and subtraction using boxes weighing down one side and less boxes on the other.  The question was, "How many boxes do you need to take away from the side w/ too much, and give it to the side w/ less so that the scale can reach equality?"  When I first read it, I was like, "NO way."  1st grade and they're already teaching them the buzzwords and the mentality to go with it so that later in life it'll be a shrug your shoulders and say, "So.  Equality is good."  They don't use normal words like minus, add, subtract, etc.  They use "take away", "give to" like that.  Another one was basic intro to multiplication.  They used the words, "cause an increase", and "propagate".  How many first graders use propogate?  I know its vocab, but it was for math.  I asked my friend's daughter if she knew the meaning and she said, "Yeah, like leaves and babies."  WhaaaTT?!?