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If you look at the  SMART Balanced PARCC aligned tests ecamples, they do indeed require multiple sentences.

And if you look at the CC aligned math curriculums like CPM math, the problems are pages long word problems with multiple steps.  We are living this, so I know it is true.

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So, there is a legitimate concern.   The Common Core standards themselves do NOT require answers written in sentence form, or even using words.

I don't know what the CPM math is.   Is it this?   http://www.cpm.org

ANYone can say they are "Common Core Aligned" but there is nothing to prevent them from adding in anything they want.   If the curriculum makers decide that answering in multiparagraph sentences is what they expect, then they will write that into their curriculum.

To effectively protest this, don't say "Scrap Common Core" say "Align your requirements with what is actually IN the Common Core standards"

I agree that the PARCC assessments will in fact dictate what is actually taught, so if PARCC is requiring multi-sentence written answers in addition to numerical equations or drawings, then that is something that needs to be protested, and changed.

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