Math 4/5 eligibility criteria

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That or placement in the next grade's Math, which is a less known and much less utilized part of MCPS's tiered enrichment paradigm. It's supposed to be for real outliers, but get enough influential families involved in twisting a principal's arm and you get a whole class of AIM in 5th and [clap, clap] Kevin Bacon (I mean Algebra in 6th).

I don’t know why algebra in 6th sounds like such a forbidden thing. Kids at AAP programs in fairfax are having algebra at 6th grade. Many places have kids placed at algebra at 6th grade as a common practice. It’s only MCPS that algebra in 6th grade is so hard to get.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That or placement in the next grade's Math, which is a less known and much less utilized part of MCPS's tiered enrichment paradigm. It's supposed to be for real outliers, but get enough influential families involved in twisting a principal's arm and you get a whole class of AIM in 5th and [clap, clap] Kevin Bacon (I mean Algebra in 6th).

I don’t know why algebra in 6th sounds like such a forbidden thing. Kids at AAP programs in fairfax are having algebra at 6th grade. Many places have kids placed at algebra at 6th grade as a common practice. It’s only MCPS that algebra in 6th grade is so hard to get.

Plus the magnet program is so tiny in MCPS which is also laughable

[Anonymous]

In our school, Map M is no longer the main factor. My kid scored 99% percentile in 3rd grade spring Map M did not make the compact math. After talking with school, they said they also looked at district eruka math test, which we can not find a place to check scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In our school, Map M is no longer the main factor. My kid scored 99% percentile in 3rd grade spring Map M did not make the compact math. After talking with school, they said they also looked at district eruka math test, which we can not find a place to check scores.

Yes you have to do both - Erika assessment and MAP-M. You can ask the teacher for how your kid scored on the assessments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In our school, Map M is no longer the main factor. My kid scored 99% percentile in 3rd grade spring Map M did not make the compact math. After talking with school, they said they also looked at district eruka math test, which we can not find a place to check scores.

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Wow. Is your kid bored in math class?

[Anonymous]

As I understand it it's not just solely based on math scores but also grades. And also how many spaces they have to fill

[Anonymous]

I teach compacted math and I don’t believe that a child who scored in the 99th percentile wasn’t invited unless something else was significantly off. That doesn’t make sense and you should be able to fight that easily.

[Anonymous]

MCPS is adjusting the criteria so that fewer kids get into compacted math. Their reasoning is in the link below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S-oQ-8dFPW3hejiiXVQUiZN74xjEluDUCNIuwK0wlG4/edit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In our school, Map M is no longer the main factor. My kid scored 99% percentile in 3rd grade spring Map M did not make the compact math. After talking with school, they said they also looked at district eruka math test, which we can not find a place to check scores.

Is it possible that your kid didn't take the eureka test and therefore is missing that score?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our school, Map M is no longer the main factor. My kid scored 99% percentile in 3rd grade spring Map M did not make the compact math. After talking with school, they said they also looked at district eruka math test, which we can not find a place to check scores.

Is it possible that your kid didn't take the eureka test and therefore is missing that score?

I know little about this test before this happened. And I have old kid in mcps and this seems to be the first time they use this test.

During the conversation with school, I was told my kid's score in district test is slightly off the cutoff.

I tried to bring up the issue that her performance during class (based on teacher's feedback) and Map M score is inconsistent with this score, but they do not seem to care and insisted both have to meet the cutoff. They will reevaluate in 4th grade.

[Anonymous]

My kids never took a "district" test, just the regular module tests and MAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids never took a "district" test, just the regular module tests and MAP.

They do take them, though. The teachers don’t make a big deal or tell them it’s a test that’s important/carries weight, they don’t tell the parents it will be or has been administered and they don’t necessarily tell anyone the scores unless you explicitly ask. The idea of using multiple measures to identify students is supposed to mean no single test or data point gatekeeps a student from opportunities. Kid could have been coming down with illness or needed to use the bathroom or mis-clicked by accident. Point being, if kid otherwise has data that clearly indicates a general high performance and capability, they should not use one borderline score to prevent the student from trying the advanced course. I mean, goodness, can you imagine if at work we were only evaluating everyone based on their one subpar moment or mistake in spite of every other indicator?