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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]

Why is it meaningless? I don't think it's meaningless. Singapore Math has a lot of word problems like that.[/quote]

Word problems are fine, even one's with lots of words and steps.  This particular word problem is ill-conceived and just tests sit-on-your-butt.  First, it's not a real world scenario, why would anyone be planning transportation and be restricted to five random scenarios, that's dictated by the test format.  Second, it in no way rewards insight or even interest in math, that would be a hinderance here.  The way to solve the problem is total the number of people and total the seats in each of the five options, mark the three that work (how many kids would miss this simply because they stopped at one?).  If you think about what would be an optimal solution in some way (fewest vehicles, fewest empty seats), you're waisting your time, that wasn't the question and that's not one of the solutions available.  If you worry about the fact that the solution you have includes vehicles that could be completely empty, you're waisting your time.

The paintbrush problem is nothing special but it does test competence with division.  The student has to translate the scenario into a calculation and then translate that solution, including possibly how to deal with a remainder or decimal part, back to the story.  It doesn't request answers with too many boxes just to complicate things.

Someone put these questions side by side because they think the PARCC question is a generalization.  It is but, it's tripping all over its self in the process, and it's not a better question.[/quote]

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