AKICILJ: state standards

[redbird]

We're back to reading the mind of a committee. In this case, I have a state standard (Tennessee, in case you care) that says students should be able to "Identify the common outcome of all chemical changes."

What does this mean? My best guess is conservation of mass, except that's explicitly listed later on. Maybe that the identity of the substance changes?

Comments

[avram]

Is it possible they meant "Identify the outcomes of all common chemical changes"? Like, maybe they've got a list of common chemical interactions and the student's supposed to be able to describe them all?

[redbird]

If so, that is way beyond what we can cover, given the amount of space we have to work with and the fact that the list is not supplied.