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This is the comparison that was presented to parents when PARCC rolled out: [url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/burtonsvillees/news/Attachment%20A%20Key%20Facts.pdf[/url]
Look at the two math questions.  There's nothing about the new curriculum that makes the MSA question irrelevant.  [b]And although we were told the PARCC question is clearly deeper and richer, it's not.[/b]  The only thing it requires is more reading comprehension.  If you actually look at the math involved, there's no grand concept, it's busy work.  Any thought put into the solution is wasted, just get do the plugging and be done.  The MSA question actually tests what the concept of remainder means in a real world scenario, maybe that's old hat, but it's not nothing.

Now of course this is making too much of a single comparison, but this is *the* sample question the PARCC people decide to release to sell their test.  School systems across the country flashed this same question up to wow parents.  No need for a postmortem, PARCC's dead, we were sold a bill of goods.[/quote]

It may not be deeper and richer, but it's definitely more complex. In fact I distinctly remember people on DCUM complaining that the question was far too complicated.[/quote]

And I think you missed the point of their complaints.  It isn't that it's too hard, it's that it is hard (in the attention to detail and time required) but it's also meaningless.  [/quote]

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