Math enrichment in 2nd grade?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nope, for us we asked the teacher and she co firmed N/A is how MCPS says no.

Maybe. But it is also how they say “not available to anyone no matter what.”

Yes but that’s not what it means in this context. It means no

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Nope, for us we asked the teacher and she co firmed N/A is how MCPS says no.

Maybe. But it is also how they say “not available to anyone no matter what.”

Yes but that’s not what it means in this context. It means no

You don’t know that - they look the same on the report cars

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Anonymous wrote: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?

For starters I would not relying on that part of the report card for anything.

I would also not depend on MCPS to properly do any enrichment at that age. Get her on some math games websites or iPad apps to boost her interest and skills.

Unfortunately at the lower grades behavior does often cloud teacher's view of students abilities. Later this is less of an issue so I wouldn't worry about it.

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OP here. Thanks all! DD is in RSM, so we're not too worried about her getting enrichment, we just want to make sure the school marks her for Compacted Math when the time comes (if it still exists by then) and also offers whatever enrichment is available. Also, not put her in a class with other kids who are bad at math or something like that (I know they say they don't do this but...)

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks all! DD is in RSM, so we're not too worried about her getting enrichment, we just want to make sure the school marks her for Compacted Math when the time comes (if it still exists by then) and also offers whatever enrichment is available. Also, not put her in a class with other kids who are bad at math or something like that (I know they say they don't do this but...)

You are wise to ask the questions and stay on top of this. They are twisting themselves into knots lately to confuse and redirect everyone and they are constantly changing the data and metrics by which students can access enrichment, which is somehow not offered equally or equitably across all schools. They are worse than horrible about communicating these decisions to families clearly and with enough notice. I wish you luck.

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In early ES especially, I had to do a lot of teaching to make up for what the school wouldn't do. As my kids got older, they were able to take more challenging classes, but in early ES they were mostly just ignored since they weren't below level.

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Whether or not your kid is marked as having received enrichment in 2nd grade has no bearing on compacted math placement. It’s just a numbers game. Of your school has one class for compacted math, then your kid needs to be 1 of the top 20-25 math kids in their grade in 3rd grade. That’s it.

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I am surprised that my 1st grader finally get math enrichment at 1st qtr. But as other pp says, nothing special, just a few kids at the classroom doing probably a bit difficult word math problem and let them play some online math game. My boy never tells me about this, so i was surprised when i received my report. His latest map math score is 217, and i don't know if that is one if the decision factor or not.

I have hestiated /mixed feeling to do math supplement because i am not sure if that is the right thing to do, so i have not looked into it. I hear pp mentions rsm or beast academy from aops here, do they really kid strong in math a favor for long time to learn ahead?

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

err TPES

Why don't they have this at the Potomac schools? I'd heard they offer more acceleration opportunities than other MCPS schools at least later in ES like AIM and Algebra in 4th and 5th grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

err TPES

Why don't they have this at the Potomac schools? I'd heard they offer more acceleration opportunities than other MCPS schools at least later in ES like AIM and Algebra in 4th and 5th grades.

Shh! We can't talk about that stuff.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Likewise. This year, now third grade, the teacher proactively noted that DC is receiving enrichment.

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My DD is always 99th percentile for all MAP tests. The only time she received any enrichment was kindergarten funnily enough and I think it had to do with there being enough other kids who were also very above average to make it feasible to give a teacher time to do that. She was supposed to be getting reading enrichment last year but it was canceled after a short time because the reading specialist was needed more than ever to help with the kids who learned nothing in virtual learning. The school was pretty upfront about it. Tbh i feel really bad for the teachers and we are able to do any enrichment we might want so it’s fine. Right now my DD prefers to do music and sports enrichments and honestly we are glad she’s not asking to get even further ahead.

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My child gets math enrichment and it started middle of the 1st quarter this year and it is marked on her report card as getting it. She is in 1st grade and in the 70th percentile for MAP but it sounds like she really grasps new math concepts quickly when taught in school. She is in a small inclusion classroom (she is not on an IEP) and there is a group gets pulled by the special educator during math so that frees up the teacher's time. Her teacher used to teach 2nd so she is going through the second grade Eureka math book with them (about 4-5 kids total).

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We were offered it yesterday at our parent-teacher conference for our second grader. He gets As in math but is only in the 80th percentile on the MAP. Not pull out enrichment, but more challenging work, word problems, etc.

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I don’t think receiving or not receiving enrichment in second grade math has anything to do with being placed in compacted math in fourth grade, so I wouldn’t worry about that. I have a third grader, and this year the report card said yes for receiving math enrichment. The teacher explained that it will be more problem solving type math problems in a small group. I don’t remember anything one way or the other about math enrichment last year. In my opinion, and with an older child having gone through elementary school in MCPS, the math gets more interesting starting in third grade.