[ghanlonnyc]

I understand that the standards are not curriculum, nor should they be.  One difficulty here in NY is that the very high stakes tests this year are allegedly “aligned to Common Core.”  Yet the NYS Common Core curriculum has not yet been written (the promise is that a half year curriculum material will be available this summer – 3 or 4 months after the test is administered!)  Understandably teachers are confused and frustrated….. 

Some of us are taking the pathway of introducing parentheses in Gr. 4 since another sample problem from the state requires students to represent a multiple step problem with the equation (240-32)/4.  That we think is reasonable for Gr. 4.  The problem Brian and Duane sent is the second in that same sample for Gr. 4 but we think it is more appropriate for Gr. 5.   Hoping the test developers are on the same path!

 

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