The New York State Education Department clearly tried to play it safe in designing questions for the Grades 3 to 8 exams, with a lot of calculation and solve-the-equation problems, which would have been the same pre- or post-Common Core. Where NYSED gets into trouble is when it tries to be creative, particularly in word problems.
So without further ado, here’s a look at some of the released questions from the 2013 New York State Testing Program’s Common Core Mathematics Test.