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   Yes, I've read the standards, and they are rife with problems. Close reading is totally unproven -- Good God, the clueless children that will come out of that curriculum!

[b]Most of the math standards are problematic because they insist on explaining in great detail in abstract terms at young ages with writing skills well beyond their ability.[/b] Until middle school, kids are concrete thinkers. These standards insist they be abstract thinkers well before the time that they are biologically wired to do so. It's like asking a fish to fly.

Many of the issues are in the "fine print" of the appendixes.   Those rachet up the reading levels sky high. There are reports of the PARCC test for 3rd graders being at an S, T, U reading level --- even though they should be at about N-O.

The other thing is, all bets are off the table for your district's curriculum next year. Here's how this is going to go: Kids will take the PARCC next year. [b]Almost everyone will fail.[/b] There will be an uproar. Your school district will panic and buy Pearson's curriculum -- because it's also been well reported that Pearson is inserting its prefab curriculum as the basis for its tests. And on the cycle goes, until parents go to the polls and vote out the politicians who signed up for this boatload of crap. 
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Which math standards, specifically, require "explaining in great detail in abstract terms at young ages"? Please link to at least one or two specific math standards.

(And as for the PARCC tests -- you seem to think you have a crystal ball. I think you have a Magic 8 Ball.)[/quote]

Different poster, but on the issue of explaining in detail in abstrict terms, scroll down to "Math Practices".   
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/3/introduction/

Since you probably work for some core-related entity, no doubt ths language will be expunged/revised by noon.   [/quote]

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