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The CBEST was instituted for political reasons, not ed.
I agree, passing appropriate courses is a considerably better
qualification.
bc, even w/ a PhD in Physics (and extensive college teaching) can’t
teach it in a public HS.
On 2014, Oct 12, , at 11:16, Philip Keller <PKeller@holmdelschools.org>
wrote:
Is this example meant to be ironic? Which of these kids is going tolearn fractions today? :)
elementary school teachers can do a little algebra, putting one or two
More seriously, though: if you believe that it is important that
items on a multiple choice test is not going to make that happen. You'd
be better off requiring that they have one college level course in a
subject that uses algebra, one that they'd be unlikely to pass without
that minimal level you were hoping to see.
— at least I used algebra , #22
On 10/12/2014 2:30 AM, Ze'ev Wurman wrote:
On 10/11/2014 8:43 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
Aaaagh!
You’re correct, however, this practice exam. includes one, I think
<http://www.ctcexams.nesinc.com/pdf/cbest_opt_math.pdf>
www.ctcexams.nesinc.com/pdf/cbest_opt_math.pdf
solve such problems in the third grade with their bar models.The problem is:
At the beginning of a class period, half of the students in a class
go to the library. Later in the period, half of the remaining
students go to the computer lab. If there are 8 students remaining
in the class, how many students were originally in the class?
It is interesting to note that Singapore students are expected to
Ze'ev
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