Posted on 02/23/2015 6:52:03 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Edited on 02/23/2015 7:10:02 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
PARCC, the Common Core-aligned test being taken by millions of students this semester, is supposed to take more than two hours per day to complete. But why should students devote more than 15 minutes to a test that won’t affect their grades, their ability to graduate, or their college admissions prospects?
Some students have proclaimed that they will bomb the test on purpose:
Does anyone really believe that the results of this test mean anything?
Related:
Before you let your kid take the PARCC test, try out this practice problem
Illinois’ 2012 Teacher of the Year speaks out against PARCC test
Forgot the link:
http://twitchy.com/2015/02/23/newsflash-students-dont-care-if-they-fail-the-parcc-test/
Those kids in the last 3 tweets that you posted would make great freepers.
They “get it”.
Crash the system.
Most of the honors-level kids worked hard on the tests, because that's in their nature. But I'd say a good 40% of the students did next to nothing once they found out how meaningless it all was.
We were told to answer questions like “Does this count?” by saying “Just try to do your best.”
My fear is that articles like this won't destroy Common Core but instead will motivate the bureaucrats to demand that Common Core scores be part of the graduation requirements...more outside interference in local issues.
For the record, that sample problem isn’t so ridiculous. It’s the kind of calculations people at my work make every day. I found the problem easy, and I hope my daughter will too.
Then they’ll probably all fail. Do you think parents will send their kids to a school that has a poor graduation rate and that they and their kids are not happy with?
Private schools are seeing an increase in enrollment as well as homeschooling.
Great, do you have a lot of 11 and 12 year olds working at you company?
Having a daughter at this age, the abstract thinking part is not always there. Yes, some manage it, but most cannot.
The other thing is that there is no "right" answer, just a hunch based on math. If the problem said that they expected to sell 250,000 yellow balls, then the problem would be more reasonable.
"Don't WASTE my mother(flipping) time."
snip— “what you don’t know about Common Core, Choice, and Charter Schools CAN hurt you.
When you consider that there is a movement to destroy our representative government, “common core, choice and charter school initiatives” become the perfect impetus to change our American system...”
http://www.newswithviews.com/Hoge/anita110.htm
No no. They show the previous growth rate, which was 10% one year and 5% the other. You can either average or take the minimum to get the expected number of balls.
The underlying lesson here is on estimation, and what is the number of “significant digits” in this kind of calculation. Given sig figs, $3MM would be the *right* answer.
Again, no 12 year olds at work, but watch this video to learn how dumbed down our education system has become. I bet the students of THAT era could figure it out easily enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFrYEV07p4I
Yes, it does say estimate, but not to the number of significant digits. But it is more than that. It also has two additional ratios (white/yellow and $/ball) that the child has to use to get the estimate.
I see this as more a “gotcha” exercise than an honest test question. More of a mathematical Rorschach test than a test of cognitive abilities.
BTW, yes, I did get the right answer first time. But I’m not sure if I would have done the same in 6th grade.
“....there is a movement to destroy our representative government...”
It’s long been dead and buried, and *We the People* allow it to happen.
Hell, what was that story not that long ago....2/3 cannot name the 3 branches of gov’t?!
Can ANYONE tell me the last time a presidential contender even MENTIONED the REPUBLIC??
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