Wondering What the PARCC Assessment Will Look Like?

Now there is less to wonder about.  Admittedly living in disequilibrium and uncertainty all year about how students will be tested in the future, I now see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.  I perused the PARCC assessment items that are up to view.  There are now more questions up than there used to be, so now I have a better understanding of  how students will be asked common core questions.  Now I know how rigorous I need to be in my question asking of students.  I suggest you take a look to if you are one of the PARCC states.

I noticed that students are doing a lot of writing about their mathematical thinking, so it looks like math journals will come in really handy.  Also, students answer questions in which there could be more than one right answer or more than one way to arrive at the answer.  They also seem to love fraction number line questions!

Here is the site.  http://www.parcconline.org/samples/mathematics/grade-3-mathematics  Click on the grade level you want to look at.

Then click below to access the tasks.  Also take the time to read about the 3 different types of tasks.

Then click on Elementary School Tasks.