This bank contains questions that are aligned to the NCSCOS (1992 and 1993 revision). Problem-Attic does not include as extensive a breakdown of questions as originally appeared in NCSCOS. To make navigation easier (so you don't have to go up and down as many levels), we show the only the major categories, which were called “competency goals”, not the objectives underneath them. You can see the complete breakdown here.

These questions come from documents that would be considered old, but which many people, including those of us who make Problem-Attic, hold in high regard. The standards were developed shortly after the release of the NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). This was a fertile period for development of non-multiple-choice assessments and a major milestone toward standards-based instruction.

NCSCOS has two qualities which make it both exemplary and useful, even many years after its publication:

• The writers did not just produce a curriculum framework, they gave examples of what students should know and be able to do for every single objective from kindergarten through high school.
• For nearly all objectives, the writers provided both a multiple-choice and free-response or open-ended question, to show alternative forms of assessment.

These questions can added to documents in the normal way or re-aligned to new standards using Problem-Attic's new alignment tool.