How Would You Score on a Common Core Math Test?

[Warpy]

Third grade, fifth grade and eighth grade tests are there.

I did quite well, missed one overall, shocking for an old fossil who hasn't seen the inside of a math book since she tutored it in 1984-5.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/new-york-common-core-test_n_5659604.html?ir=Politics

[msongs]

1. did well except for that ^ symbol which I don't recall from way back. is looking it up

cheating? hmm probably not cuz if I was in the class I would remember

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. if it's something like "2^6" that indicates "two to the sixth power"

the "^" is used in place of a superscript

[msongs]

4. ok they used to put a little number after the main number nt

[LiberalElite]

6. I never saw that symbol before so

I didn't do so well in 8th grade as opposed to the other two where I did really well.

[immoderate]

7. It wasn't used that way then. It's used for "raised to the power of ..."

Like 5 ^ 2 means the same as 5². But they don't know how to do exponents on a keyboard.

--imm

[progressoid]

3. Hmm...I don't want to say.

And my Dad was a physics teacher so...

[kwassa]

5. Common Core is a set of standards, not a set of tests.

The curriculum to meet those standards are set up by each individual state, so there is no single Common Core curriculum or test.

In reality, there are states that buy into certain tests as a group. The tests are devised mostly by various text book publishers. I doubt that there are more than a half dozen common core tests being used. Still, there isn't only one.

[seveneyes]

9. Pie are not square

Much better rounded off.

[davidpdx]

10. I took all three

3rd grade 5 out of 5
5th grade 4 out of 5
8th grade 4 out of 5

I'll admit on the last one I made some guesses just looking at it.

Since high school I've taken:

4 undergrad math courses (2 were stats classes)
1 math course for an MBA (stats)
1 math course for a DBA (stats)

[noamnety]

11. I aced them all

But I've got an advantage. Even though I'm an art teacher, I've been helping kids pass algebra after school for the last few years. I keep having to learn it, then I forget it over the summer, then around Christmas I have kids panicking about graduating so I relearn it with them.

[frazzled]

12. There is no such thing as

A "Common Core" math test, so I sort of got stopped right there. Maybe there's a math test in a classroom or even in a district that is in a state that has adopted the Common Core standards--which, as the name suggests, is a set of standards and learning benchmarks, not an instructional curriculum. But there is no CC developed test in math or any other subject.

I think we flunk whenever we get this basic fact wrong.