Math Tutor - 6th grader in AAP

[Anonymous]

Seeking recommendations for a math tutor or program for my 6th grader in the AAP math curriculum. Located in the Chantilly/Fairfax area. Primary need, to assist with homework load.

[Anonymous]

There is this much homework for a 6th grader?
You should really get tutoring to help the kid get to a position where the homework is not a load, not having the tutor walk them through the homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is this much homework for a 6th grader?
You should really get tutoring to help the kid get to a position where the homework is not a load, not having the tutor walk them through the homework.

+1 They are not in the right math class then.

[Anonymous]

use Khan Academy. No other tutor needed.

[Anonymous]

I say this kindly, but if your kid needs a tutor for math in elementary school, they are in the wrong math class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeking recommendations for a math tutor or program for my 6th grader in the AAP math curriculum. Located in the Chantilly/Fairfax area. Primary need, to assist with homework load.

I found a tutor through Wyzant. It was for acceleration and enrichment since the school work was too easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:use Khan Academy. No other tutor needed.

Thank you..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeking recommendations for a math tutor or program for my 6th grader in the AAP math curriculum. Located in the Chantilly/Fairfax area. Primary need, to assist with homework load.

I found a tutor through Wyzant. It was for acceleration and enrichment since the school work was too easy.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeking recommendations for a math tutor or program for my 6th grader in the AAP math curriculum. Located in the Chantilly/Fairfax area. Primary need, to assist with homework load.

Finding a tutor before school even started = canonical example of helicoptering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeking recommendations for a math tutor or program for my 6th grader in the AAP math curriculum. Located in the Chantilly/Fairfax area. Primary need, to assist with homework load.

Finding a tutor before school even started = canonical example of helicoptering.

Or a parent who recognizes that their child struggled in math in 5th grade and maybe didn’t do as well as the parent would like who is trying to get ahead of the issue in 6th.

There are kids who are stronger in LA that are accepted into LIV and some of those kids struggle with the accelerated math. DS is in Advanced Math at his school, we deferred LIV and there is/was no LLIV for his grade. There are kids in that class who are struggling with the math. Advanced Math becomes its own class in 5th grade so they need to balance the numbers for it. We had friends whose kids were in the class and struggling, I heard about it carpooling the kids places and heard parents worried that it was too much for their kid.

This is why they really need Advanced Math and Advanced LA. Kids should be placed based on their strengths in one or the other or both. It would lead to a better fit for more kids and could actually replace LIV and LIII. It would be easier to teach at each of the ES and remove the need for a special certification to teach.

[Anonymous]

I have two kids in AAP. And, I just want to say that my parents let me drop out of advanced math in 6th grade. I later was more into math - but back then, I could never make up that track after I stepped back in 6th grade.

For those reasons, I support a tutor for 6th grade math but I think you should know now that your kid is not a candidate for Algebra in 7th even if they test in. That's just my personal opinion.

[Anonymous]

There are schools in FCPS and teachers in FCPS who do a terrible job teaching math. Some kids never caught up from covid. Some schools didn't catch kids up and just moved right along to the usual grade level curriculum. Lots of reasons a kid could need a tutor in 6th grade.