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What are the differences between the Common Core Standards for grade eight and the New York State standards of mathematics?
Common Core Standards
For one thing, the Common Core Standards offer narrative (rather than bullet points) and go into more specific and in depth instructions through narrative. The Common Core Standards expressly mentions three critical areas out in front: a) formulating and reasoning about "expressions and equations," which includes "modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation" -- and that includes being able to solve "linear equations and systems of linear equations"; b) students are asked to "grasp the concept of a function" and to use functions in order to understand "quantitative relationships"; and c) students must be able to apply the Pythagorean Theorem when it comes to being able to analyze two and three dimensional space and figures using "distance, angle, similarity, and congruence" (www.corestandards.org). These directions are provided in two pages.
And from that point on the Common Core Standards offers paragraphs (three paragraphs), each one going into great depth as to the three "critical areas" in the field of mathematics for eighth graders.
The New York Standards of Mathematics
Meanwhile the New York Standards for Mathematics is more than five pages and under each bullet point the NYS standards have examples of what students are supposed to learn. For example under 8EE Expressions and Equations, students are asked to work with "radicals...
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