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Anonymous wrote:DD is in G&T and scored a 93 percent in MAP-M. I am wondering if Kumon or Mathnasium will help in better test scores. She will be going to middle school next year.
practice always helps with fluency, and fluency with math facts does help kids score higher on these assessments, like it or not. how you go about practicing is up to you. some people find value in paying to drive to a place so that someone can give their kids worksheets. other people practice for free at home. i strongly suggest you try the at-home methods before going the kumon/mathnasium route. kids who are sent to kumon to do worksheets do not score higher than kids whose parents give them worksheets at the kitchen table.
MAP is an adaptive test, the kids that score the highest are answering very complex questions that require creativity and abstract thinking. Not sure how much Math fluency helps reach top percentiles.
Our adaptive assessments are still arithmetic-heavy at the harder end of the question pool. DC got a question like simplify the radical sqrt(24300), which is a snap if you are fluent enough to see that 24300 = 2^2 * 3^5 * 5^2. Arithmetic fluency = speed. What can I tell you? If you don't see the value in it, have fun in the low 90s.
Is seeing that breakdown what is taught by Russian Math?
No clue. DS is in RSM, 6th grade honors, and I don’t know how he would approach that question. I would guess that is a very advanced question that a kid in ES is unlikely to get. We are in FCPS and DS has always scored in the 99th percentile for math. The poster who posted that problem is a bit of a jerk. I would guess that most adults wouldn’t know what to do with that problem now and had no clue what to do in ES. That feels more like a math competition type problem then a regular math problem. But I am not great with math.
I have no clue why a parent would be unhappy that their child was “only” in the 93rd percentile for math on the MAP or iReady. That is a high score. I know that FCPS has started using the iReady scores for AAP and that is going to start driving an obsessive desire to bump iready scores for kids just like there is a desire to bump NNAT and CoGAT scores. I would guess that MAP scores are used for similar programs or math acceleration in MCPS.
OP why are you worried about your kid in math?
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