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[quote=Anonymous]Here is an example of a Common Core Standard that, without a supporting curriculum, could be considered both vague and specific:

5.NBT.B.6 Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

It is specific in that it clearly doesn't want teachers to teach the standard division algorithm, but it is vague in that it lists a list of options that methods/support that teachers can use. It is also vague about which properties and relationships it is referring to.

This isn't necessarily a good or bad thing, but it does mean that these standards are not the same as a curriculum, and that without great curricula, we will continue to have teachers teaching skills and concepts every which way (and hopefully interpreting the standards in the correct way).  I also wouldn't want to be a teacher trying to create all the worksheets that go with that standard...try using Word to create a place value array - a nightmare. [/quote]

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