How many kids have mastered trig in the 10th grade? The standard math track is two years of algebra, a year of geometry, then trig (as far as I remember), and the more advanced track has you starting, but not completing, trig in the 10th grade, then moving on to calc.
My guess is that the test had a lot of algebra 2 material, which requires some memorization of formulas. It's not hard math, it's just sort of plug and play, but it's hard to remember what to plug the numbers into if you haven't had a recent refresher, or you're not teaching it.
As far as getting a 62% on the reading portion, well that's just pathetic.
As far as getting a 62% on the reading portion, well that's just pathetic.
For all we know, the reading test was either testing for a different kind of plug-and-play (“the author of the above paragraph is using (a) apostrophe; (b) synechdoche; (c) both; (d) neither”) or is testing mastery of a certain kind of teaching-to-the-test in the guise of “reading comprehension”.
My guess is that the test had a lot of algebra 2 material, which requires some memorization of formulas. It's not hard math, it's just sort of plug and play, but it's hard to remember what to plug the numbers into if you haven't had a recent refresher, or you're not teaching it.
As far as getting a 62% on the reading portion, well that's just pathetic.