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[quote=Anonymous]Why do we act as though the learning standards are so nebulous?   Does DCPS truly have absolutely no idea of what might appear on the CAS, to be getting completely blindsided by it?   Or alternately, is the CAS really and truly so completely contrary to what DCPS would or should be teaching anyways?

Teaching basic math facts, teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication, division isn't "teaching to the test" - the stuff needed for demonstrating proficiency whether by CAS would and should be stuff that is needed regardless of tests or curricula.

And as for "fundamentals of probability" - what you gave as an example isn't even math based.  "Because it shows up on the menu" - how do you relate that to your odds of getting hit by lightning or of winning the lottery?  We've all heard of either of those things happening, so they have some likelihood, but it's all dependent on the number of instances relative to the size of the population, and you cannot gauge it effectively without dividing.

I have no idea how we keep going from BASIS discussions to DCPS and things that have nothing to do with BASIS, though I think it has to do with some posters' notions that somehow it is either upon BASIS to solve all the world's educational problems or for BASIS to go away if it cannot - neither of which are premises that I would agree with.[/quote]

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