Crazy not to include a math sample?

[Anonymous]

My kid scored just over 80% on each of the iReady tests but is reading at a DRA 30 and is stronger in reading than in math.

I should probably include a math sample, right? Unfortunately, I don’t have a good one but I do have a great chemistry experiment he came up with last summer. Am I crazy to not include math if he’s just right on grade level for math?

For my second sample, I was going to include a book he made.

DS does math at home for me and does fine but it’s mostly verbal things.

[Anonymous]

Stop overthinking this. Include the samples that demonstrate why you think your child NEEDS Level IV services.

[Anonymous]

Why are you referring him if he is on grade level and not advanced?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you referring him if he is on grade level and not advanced?

iReady isn't intended to show that a child could perform better (aptitude), but what a child currently can do (ability). CoGAT is for aptitude. Just because a kid isn't 99th percentile on iReady doesn't mean they don't need AAP Level IV. Also it's kind of handy that the level IV automatically triggers school based screening for level III if the kid doesn't get level IV. OP's kid sounds like a candidate for level III in language arts at a minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop overthinking this. Include the samples that demonstrate why you think your child NEEDS Level IV services.

Agree with this. My kid's iReady was stronger in language arts than math. I know they get a pull-out for math level II where they have done some thinking/explain you work type math sheets the school already has for packet purposes. I'm putting in a book my kid wrote (just like you) and a social studies type sample showing how my kid includes advanced concepts about how societies and governments function into their every day play. Might not be a great sample, but it shows their thinking. Meeting with our AART to go over the packet, something the AART has offered every year I have paid attention, and can let you know what they say.

[Anonymous]

How would you include a book as a sample? 2 work samples from each only one sided 8.5X11 inches page is allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you include a book as a sample? 2 work samples from each only one sided 8.5X11 inches page is allowed.

Not OP, but my kid's "books" are the length of a "book" written for school, which ends up being about 1 page typed. And my kid's handwriting is large enough that I can fit it all one page even hand-written and it's still barely legible. We used the one from the PTA art contest and had room for the artist's statement, even.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you referring him if he is on grade level and not advanced?

For a lot of us who don’t really know how to teach our kids advanced math and do not have the resources to pay someone to teach our kids advanced math, the only way they are going to become advanced in math is if they get access to advanced math at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you referring him if he is on grade level and not advanced?

For a lot of us who don’t really know how to teach our kids advanced math and do not have the resources to pay someone to teach our kids advanced math, the only way they are going to become advanced in math is if they get access to advanced math at school.

They are teaching kids a bit more quickly. So the kids are taught third and fourth grade math. And then fourth and fifth grade. In fifth grade they are learning sixth grade math. The material and instruction is the same, it is just faster math.

If you child is on grade level then they are going to be expected to learn a higher grade level math.