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‘Easy’ 5th grade questions leave adults scratching their heads
Wow! It surprised me how much I didn't know!
Kate Miano
09.17.21

Remember fifth grade? That tumultuous time between elementary school and middle school? There’s a lot changing around you, and on top of that, you’re expected to know some really hard things!

The knowledge that kids learn isn’t always relevant to day-to-day life, as we all know.

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While it is important to learn all sorts of different ideas and skills in order to develop your brain fully, not everything you once learned in school will necessarily come up again. You probably don’t talk about different species of dinosaurs every day at the office, for example.

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Also school curriculum’s are constantly changing to keep up with the times. So stuff that you may have learned in school, such as cursive, is now leaving to make way for newer ideas, like media literacy or tech skills. Even as adults, it’s good to check back every now and then and see if the knowledge we have is relevant to the world around us.

As we get older, sometimes we forget exactly how hard school was.

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There is so much knowledge that kids are supposed to learn and remember. Adulthood can be tough too, but at least we don’t get quizzed every week about what we know. I mean, except for right now.

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flickr - Gamerscore blog

You might be surprised to see how hard it is to answer some of these questions. Keep in mind, a lot has changed since you were a fifth grader!

Take our quiz to see if you really are smarter than a fifth grader! Then see who wins when an adult faces off against a 5th grade in the video below.

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