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Reply to ""Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I took a sample PARCC test online for 4th grade math to see what all of the discussion was about. I was surprised at the number of steps involved to get to the right answer for some of the questions. An example is: you have 4 teachers teaching a chess class. There are 18 chess boards. They order 3 more cases of 15. If each teacher has the same number of chess boards and the remainder are donated to the library, how many chess boards does each teacher get? As adults, we can quickly see the answer is 15 [b]but it will take a 4th grader a long time to get there.[/b]I[/quote] No, why? 18 + 3*15 = 63 63/4 = 15 R 3 Are 4th graders now taught how to do problems with multiple orders of operation? The computation isn't complicated, and if the math curriculum is good, then the fourth-graders will have plenty of experience solving word problems like this.[/quote][/quote]
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