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The NJ DOE Office of Assessment prepared this slide show about the Spring 2014 NJ ASK. This document is a PDF version of their PowerPoint, and its relevant sections will be shared with you at CPT and department meetings.

Do you ask your students to show their work? Should they? This article has an interesting perspective.

I ask them too because I teach alg, these problems become more complicated as the year moves on and they need to write their steps down because there are multiple steps. The ones that have been doing it in their heads for years suddenly cant seem to do that anymore and find themselves in a tricky situation because they don't know how to show their work.

This is a good explanation of relationships that are NOT proportional and why. The candle problem is a good one--ask students, "How could you turn this into a proportion?" They would want to say that the statement should change to something like "How much candle is burned each hour?"