What the educators told us at the meeting that would be unique for CC math is that you have to show you understand the concepts, via essays or writing more.
For example- a word problem is "Juan makes $22 if he works 1/2 an hour. How much does he make if he works 2 hours?"
I guess I would approach it like this: OK, he makes about 20 bucks for 1/2 hour or 40 bucks for an hour or 80 bucks for 2 hours.
With the CC math test, they have to:
1) Make up numbers and draw a graph
2) Make up numbers and make a table
3) Make an equation -that explains all of this.
the only thing that I thought was, OK, initially it's good for everyone to really understand this principle. However, esp. if you are gifted, won't you get really, really bored drawing graphs like this over and over?
I made a graph- none of the other adults at my table did. I don't know if they didn't know how to or just didn't want to...
Last edited by jack'smom; 12/01/13 08:11 PM.
