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Really, in the real world would you'd bring six empty vehicles on a field trip?  And, what's wrong with asking a simple question of someone who's just learning a concept?  Is there something about doing everything at once that's superior?  Math is a tool for isolating concepts. The PARCC question is so hyper it's hard to tell there's not really much going on.

Even before the math, there's just too much going on--text, tables, pictures, a question that demands three responses. Why does the bus look like a van?   Don't forth graders worry that one of the seats in the five passenger car is the driver?  Hmm, the answers work out the same whether or not you eliminate a driver from the seat count.  So the test writer thought this might be a point of confusion and they decided not to state it more clearly?  Again, that just penalizes the student who notices the ambiguity and hunts for clarification or takes time to check that drivers don't make a difference.

Don't sell your son (or yourself short), this was just garbage designed to distract.  Good riddance.[/quote]

In the real world, I have never (among other things) used trigonometric identities, calculus, or linear algebra. I don't think that's the standard we should be using.

It's fine to ask simple questions for someone just learning the concept. That doesn't make the more complex question inappropriate.[/quote]

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