Kindergarten gets tough as kids are forced to bubble in multiple choice tests
They don’t even know how to hold a pencil yet, but kindergartners are getting a taste of the tough side of education with Common Core standardized math tests.
Comments (54)BY RACHEL MONAHAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013, 2:30 AM
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Kindergarteners are having a tough time with standardized math tests.
Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils.
Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds are learning how to fill in bubbles on standardized math tests to show how much they know about numbers, shapes and order.
Teachers said kindergartners are bewildered. “Sharing is not caring anymore; developmentally, it’s not the right thing to do,” said one Queens teacher, whose pupils kept trying to help one another on the math test she gave for the first time this fall.
The 4- and 5-year-old students are finding the tests bewildering.
“They’re scared. They just don’t understand you’re
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