4th grade MAP M
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Anonymous
What is your RAW MAP-M score (no, 99% is NOT enough) and ES DC goes to? |
Anonymous
+1. Every kid does not need to be accelerated. I do wish they would find interest ways to engage advance students more like puzzles and brain teasers. But this race for more is not wise. Very few kids really love and engage with math and see patterns on a level that they need a bunch more early on. The kids that do need this, it’s pretty obvious. OP, I don’t know your kid. But ask yourself is this a situation where you kid is just slight above some peers and will be fine with some enrichment, or is this a kid who could probably start Algebra or higher in ES. |
Anonymous
You have to fight like hell for it. It's generally not worth it because there is very little new math between 5th grade and algebra, so it's easy for kids to jump to their appropriate level when they start middle school, regardless of ES class. |
Anonymous
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Just so you all can chill out, you should know that the tippy top math kids, who go to MIT and Stanford and win national contests, don't do any in school skipping (beyond regular CM) in ES. It really, really doesn't matter. It's impossible to learn a lot math only in school, and once you are learning math outside of school, the school math doesn't matter anymore.
This holds true until high school magent level. |
Anonymous
can I ask what the bolded means? are you referring to supplementing? |
Anonymous
AND there are tip top math kids that find their footing in HS and college and did no outside school things at all in ES and MS. There is little to no life advantage from doing Algebra in 5th grade versus 7th. |
Anonymous
There is definitely new math between 5th grade and Algebra. Further, it’s the depth of application, manipulation, and beginning to think abstractly that matters. Most kids are not “jumping” levels unless they were already above level or do some prep in the summer Access your kids math aptitude and desire. Kids have to take math every year of HS. |
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What is the path of math?
Grade 4: compacted math 4/5 Grade 5: compacted math 5/6 Grade 6: pre-algebra? Grade 7: algebra? Grade 8: geometry Grade 9 to Grade 12: calculus? |
Anonymous
This seemed to be the most current PDF I could easily find https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/curriculum/math/montgomery-county-public-schools_-prek-12-mathematics-program---google-docs.pdf the standard advanced track would be grade 9: honors algebra 2 grade 10: AP/honors pre-calc grade 11: Calculus BC grade 12: AP stats At Poolesville/Blair SMCS they have a more advanced pathway that puts some kids into Calc BC in 10th with further advanced classes like MVC and Linear algebra. From my experience there were no kids above that path so capable math kids were all in Functions in 9th regardless of whether they had taken Alg 2 or not. At my home HS they do not offer MVC and most kids on the advanced track drop down to Calc AB for regular Calc in 11th which makes you wonder why they were accelerated. |
Anonymous
Because many of the same kids who find math challenging by the time they hit Calc in HS found the standard curriculum much too slow and simple when in ES/MS, and lilely would have turned off from the subject entirely as a result if acceleration/enrichment were not available. |
Anonymous
Just curious what is the possible.highest MAP M score for a 4th grader (assume they did the 2-5 database)?
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Anonymous
That's life to learn to deal with a little boredom |
Anonymous
Odd comment. This is how math is taught in the countries with which we are competing. |
Anonymous
I wish there is more info regarding the correlation between the MAP-M score and the math grade level (common core). However it seems to me that either the Math teachers are forbidden to inform parents, or even the schools do not know...
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I believe a lot of SMCS kids completed A2 before 9th grade, so the Math Path for them will be
Grade 9: honor Pre-cal Grade 10: Cal AB Grade 11: Cal BC Grade 12: Multi variable Cal or AP Statistics For some math geneious they can even skip Cal AB and directly take Cal BC at grade 10, then multi variable cal and AP statistics at grade 11 and 12.
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