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... Having constructed this figure, we must emphasize how potentially dangerous such tables can be because they promote a "check-off" approach that conflicts with a truly integrated view of mathematics. Each "x" within the body of the table is merely shorthand for a detailed account of how the particular task exemplifies, or illustrates, or even extends the ideas within that particular standard.
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... judgment since student responses may be entirely satisfactory even while ignoring the skills supposedly being examined. Taking the broader view, however, the aim in these prototypes is to assess mathematical power, not incliviclual specific ski ~ Is.)
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