Child says math is too easy
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Anonymous
| Has anyone successfully been able to have their child moved up a level in math and if so, what did you do? Student is in fourth grade AAP |
Anonymous
| Just tell child to get used to it and put more effort into other subjects that are less easy at this stage. |
Anonymous
| Some kids in our school get pulled to higher grade for math. But I don't know what's the procedure. Go ask the school. |
Anonymous
Sockpuppet If child says home league basketball is too easy, would parent enroll them in another sport or move them to travel league basketball? |
Anonymous
| Beast Academy at home |
Anonymous
Probably a bad idea, but acceleration is available at the wealthier schools |
Anonymous
This never made sense to me. “My kid is ahead of everyone in math, he’s super bored” “Do this thing that will make him ever farther ahead of everyone and even more bored!” Sometimes kids in school are bored. Mine were, and part of what we did was teach them that it’s okay to be bored, how to deal with boredom without being distracting. Instead of teaching your kid new math concepts at home, why don’t you do different uses of the concepts? Teach him games that utilize math skills. Have him use his skills to measure and build something cool. Teach him to cook since it’s a heavy use of fractions. |
Anonymous
Op here. Thanks for the advice. We already do this at home. And DC is doing supplemental math outside of school but I’d rather not do that next year if there’s an option to place them at their level in school. But I’m trying to find out from others here who may have been successful if that’s even an option
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Anonymous
| We enrolled DS in RSM in 4th grade because math at school was not engaging and he loved math. He tested into the Honors class and was moved into the 5th grade class half way into the year. He found the math competition program at RSM and loved that. He is a 7th grader now and only does the math competition class with RSM, the grade level class was not challenging and RSM decided they did not want to keep pushing him ahead. But he loves the math competition class. |
Anonymous
Np. Beast does that. It gamefies math by giving kids math puzzles to solve. It will introduce new concept, have him practice, and then turn the concepts into games and math "challenges" at the end. The kid isn't going to be *more* bored at school. School math is painfully slow for some kids that even new info isn't challenging or interesting. By enriching at home, the tradeoff is that the kid is still bored in math at school, but learns to love math. OP, +1 to the other posters saying to enrich at home. Acceleration at school gets you only one level up, still at the school's pace, and is a pain to get the school to agree to. If you can enrich at home, Beast or RSM competitions, you have the freedom to dive into whatever your kid finds interesting. He can determine his own pace. And yes, you can do math games as well. |
Anonymous
Explain to your child that he/she/they simply need to “go deeper” into the math material presented by the school. |
Anonymous
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Did your child earn a 145+ on the CogAT Q in 2nd grade? Are they likely to earn a 575+ on the math SOL this year, and did they do so last year? If so, you can approach the principal and request that your child be jumped up to 6th grade AAP math next year. FCPS has a process for skipping at that point.
If your child didn't meet those benchmarks, then it's unlikely that FCPS will let your child skip. There's also a decent chance that even if your kid met the benchmarks, your principal may not allow anyone to skip ahead. |
Anonymous
| OP, what did your child have on the CogAT Q? I believe that is what can potentially get you to move ahead (beyond normal AAP track). At has been years now but it was offered to me DS and we declined. It puts you on track to go to the middle school for Algebra in 6th grade and we were not interested in that, nor taking Calculus in 10th grade. |
Anonymous
This. Moving grades in ES, if your ES will entertain the idea, will mean that your child will need to attend Algebra 1 at the local MS or online. You need to decide if it is worth it for your child to accelerate another year. It could require you to provide transportation from the MS to the ES if you make that choice. I think some of that is schoold ependent. There seem to be a few ES that have enough kids taking this path that Algebra 1 might be taught at the ES but that is mainly hearsay. The number of 6th graders in Algebra 1 is small, it is not a path the schools are excited to use. We choose not to ask to pursue that path, it was not offered by the school even though DC had the necessary Quant scores and SOL scores. Our kid enjoys the math competition classes and participating in competitions. The classes have provided advanced instruction with more challenging problems. DC loves them. We have told DC that school is a great place to practice concepts that might be easy but are places where you can make a mistake if you are moving too quickly. Getting those foundational practices down well help a lot with harder classes to come. It is no different than completing drills for a sport before playing a game, you practice the basic skills regardless of the level that you are on, so you are prepared to use them quickly and efficiently. Other families make different chocies. We know kids taking Calc BC in 10th grade and know a kid who is taking Calc as a freshman, I am not sure if it is AB or BC, next year. You need to find a path that you are comfortable with that your child will be able to handle without causing a ton of stress. |
Anonymous
acceleration is available at all schools including the worst performing fcps schools, except there is not much interest in math as much as sports. Bottom performing schools are also wealthy when it comes to sports interests. |