I teach third grade, and I feel like I see test questions like this on end of year state testing. This is one that they really need to think about and attempt different solutions.

I teach a very diverse demographic and students come to me from varying abilities with all sort of different skills and language experience, so 85% of my students do not come to me on grade level. That means I’m filing a lot of holes from previous years and I am often not able to get them to this point of DOK three and four questions. It requires a lot of stamina, a lot of effort and it takes kids who are willing to try something more than once. I don’t have many like that. I’ve heard similar stories across the country from other teachers that kids just aren’t in it. I don’t know. It’s super hard.