Math enrichment in 2nd grade?
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Anonymous
| DD consistently scores 97th-98th percentile on math MAP tests and has all As but isn't marked as "Consistently receiving enrichment" for math in her report card (has an "N/A" in MP1 for this.) I don't actually think MCPS enrichment in 2nd grade math is that valuable (they usually just get extra puzzles or whatnot), but I want her to receive it so that she gets placed in Compacted Math when the time comes (obviously assuming she continues doing well). I realize that everyone on DCUM has kids scoring >> 99th percentile, but I think it's normal to get enrichment at her percentile, right? I think the teacher's perception of her behavior (which she describes as "very young," which we do kind of agree with) is clouding her assessment of DD's actual math capabilities. Any thoughts or similar experiences? |
Anonymous
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They don’t always have staff to do math pullouts for enrichment. So it isn’t available to anyone (like the report card says), and can’t possibly hurt anyone’s chances of getting in CM.
Ask questions like when it will be available and if the classroom teacher will be recommending your kid participate. |
Anonymous
| I would set up a time to talk to the teacher about it. Also enrichment with Eureka is just doing the harder problems (later in the problem set), which you could do with your child at home. Presuming she continues to score that high on MAP and gets an A in math and does well in Eureka assessments, she should be centrally identified for compacted math. |
Anonymous
The only ES I know of that offers this for grades 1 & 2 was TPMS because it was from when there was the ES STEM magnet. |
Anonymous
err TPES |
Anonymous
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Take a look at this: Providing Enriched Learning in Elementary Mathematics - Parent Overview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AQRHnff0tWFQPrCaVdfPyYzEbw-tZuXN/view
It might help when you have a conversation with the teacher. Linked from the AEI website |
Anonymous
| My guess is if it says N/A, then no one is getting it. I think it would be black if some students were receiving it. |
Anonymous
| OP here. Thanks all! Make good sense. When we asked the teacher, we got a confusing answer, though I think she did mention the staffing issue. (That was before we saw the report card though.) |
Anonymous
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I think enrichment for most kids will start in Q2, now that assessments are completed and they have a quarter's worth of metrics.
But at that age, the enrichment is usually just being assigned the "third page" of homework in the Eureka homework book, so you can just make that a household expectation. |
Anonymous
Nope, for us we asked the teacher and she co firmed N/A is how MCPS says no. |
Anonymous
| For our now 3rd grader, our elementary school said in 2nd that the 2nd grade team decided as a whole to not offer enrichment last year. May have been because of the content recovery they had to do, not sure. We had "N/A" that year. |
Anonymous
Maybe. But it is also how they say “not available to anyone no matter what.” |
Anonymous
Our Focus school has enrichment pull outs for math - my kid loves it. It’s about six kids with a teacher 2-3 times a week and they do puzzles and critical thinking stuff that’s outside Eureka. But they aren’t able to offer it every year, and I know not all ES can do it. |
Anonymous
| IF you have time or a nanny, do Beast Academy from AoPS from home. It is by far the most challenged curriculum and places a heavy emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking. My gifted student completed the entire BA curriculum and tested into Algebra 1 in 5th grade. They have online classes through virtual school and we did a few, but he mostly enjoyed reading the comic books and doing the online practice problems. He's now moved on to AoPS and that is going great, too. He did one math competition and placed well despite not doing any prep outside of Beast Academy. |
Anonymous
| We really like RSM for math and AoPs for ELA |