See how well you'd fare on this 101-year-old quiz for Bullitt County, Ky., junior high students

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6. And how many of those 8th graders could answer all the questions that our kids have to answer?

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For example, here's the kind of math question NY 8th graders face, a question based on the "Common core."

http://www.engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attachments/math-grade-8.pdf

A trainer for a professional football team keeps track of the amount of water players consumer throughout practice. The trainer observes that the amount of water consumed is a linear function of the temperature on a given day. The trainer finds that when it is 90 degrees F the players consume about 220 gallons of water, and when it is 76 degrees F the players consume about 178 gallons of water.

Part A. Write a linear function to model the relationship between the gallons of water consumed and the temperature.
Part B. Explain the meaning of the slope in the context of the problem.


(Commentary: This question aligns to CCLS8.F.4 because it assesses a student’s ability to assess a function that models a linear relationship from a description of a relationship between two values (x,y) and interpret the rate of change.)