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>Take a look at question No. 1, which shows students five pennies, under which it says “part I know,” and then a full coffee cup labeled with a “6″ and, under i
by aspensmonster 13y ago
>Take a look at question No. 1, which shows students five pennies, under which it says “part I know,” and then a full coffee cup labeled with a “6″ and, under it, the word, “Whole.” Students are asked to find “the missing part” from a list of four numbers.
Wat.
Edit: http://roundtheinkwell.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the-math-test.pdf http://roundtheinkwell.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the-math-... ; That's the actual test, apparently. I still think "Wat" is an appropriate response though.
- blueblob 13y agoThis test was clearly written in a time in which a cup of coffee was $0.06. :-) In all seriousness it took me like 5 readings to figure out what was being asked for this question.
- rallison 13y agoSome of those questions are fine. Some of those questions I hope have some surrounding context. And some of them are pretty ridiculous. I went in expecting (hoping) to see some above grade level questions that simply let the really good students excel. I left disappointed. That said, thank you for the link to the actual test.
- ktsmith 13y agoSome probably do have surrounding context and in the case of #3 the kids were probably provided with manipulatives so they could literally use cubes to solve the problem. The test is still terrible.