Have APS math inventory results been sent out?

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No. 6th grade sol

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Anonymous wrote:1090 is the threshold this year. And 600 SOL. I heard they are putting very few kids through. Much fewer than in past years.

I wonder if it will be just one class per school for 6th graders.

My kid was recommended for Pre-Algebra, but we don't know the true score of her Math Inventory yet. It shows she scored 1046 on the January Math Inventory and 1046 on the June Math Inventory (reported on the recommendation letter) - is that the highest APS will show the parents? A friend reported that their kid also got a 1046 in the recommendation letter, so coincidence or limit to what they will show?

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Am I the only parent wishing there was a Math 6 Intensified option. My rising 6th grader is on the cusp of the Pre-Algebra cut-off, but I worry that Math 6 will be more of the same that we had in 5th grade where the focus was almost totally on the bottom half of the class. Pre-Algebra might be too hard, but Math 6 has the potential to be another wasted year with minimal attention paid to the kids above grade level. We need to decide whether to go with Pre-Algebra and get a tutor if necessary to support, or go with Math 6 and get a tutor to do the teaching that likely won't happen in the classroom.

DC is unlikely to need upper level math classes in late high school so pre-algebra isn't an academic necessity, but I also don't want another year on the iPad doing math games while the teacher plays catch-up with the kids below grade level.

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Anonymous wrote:1090 is threshold this year. And 600 SOL. I heard they are putting very few kids through. Much fewer than past years.

My kid scored advanced on MI but average on SOL (did not meet the threshold) but they still recommended for pre- algebra 🤔

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1090 is threshold this year. And 600 SOL. I heard they are putting very few kids through. Much fewer than past years.

My kid scored advanced on MI but average on SOL (did not meet the threshold) but they still recommended for pre- algebra 🤔

They consider cogat as well. My kid scored below the threshold in one of the factors, but was recommended for pre algebra anyway, presumably based on the other factors plus possibility teacher input.

1046 is the MI threshold in our recommendation letter, btw. 575 for SOL.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1090 is threshold this year. And 600 SOL. I heard they are putting very few kids through. Much fewer than past years.

My kid scored advanced on MI but average on SOL (did not meet the threshold) but they still recommended for pre- algebra 🤔

This happened to my kid too (rising 7th). He was way above on MI, but a few points short of the SOL threshold, and still put through to Alg 1 Intensified. From what I have been told, APS didn't get to all the content covered in the SOL, so there was some math vocabulary used in the SOL questions that was not taught last year and therefore the kids could not understand the question itself. The MI is more about pure computation. My sense is that the MI was weighted much more heavily in the decision because it is a better predictor of raw math ability than the SOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only parent wishing there was a Math 6 Intensified option. My rising 6th grader is on the cusp of the Pre-Algebra cut-off, but I worry that Math 6 will be more of the same that we had in 5th grade where the focus was almost totally on the bottom half of the class. Pre-Algebra might be too hard, but Math 6 has the potential to be another wasted year with minimal attention paid to the kids above grade level. We need to decide whether to go with Pre-Algebra and get a tutor if necessary to support, or go with Math 6 and get a tutor to do the teaching that likely won't happen in the classroom.

DC is unlikely to need upper level math classes in late high school so pre-algebra isn't an academic necessity, but I also don't want another year on the iPad doing math games while the teacher plays catch-up with the kids below grade level.

Is Math 6 Extended no longer an option? That's what my kid took last year, although they didn't cover all the content they usually do. Do you mean something beyond Math 6 Extended?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1090 is threshold this year. And 600 SOL. I heard they are putting very few kids through. Much fewer than past years.

My kid scored advanced on MI but average on SOL (did not meet the threshold) but they still recommended for pre- algebra 🤔

This happened to my kid too (rising 7th). He was way above on MI, but a few points short of the SOL threshold, and still put through to Alg 1 Intensified. From what I have been told, APS didn't get to all the content covered in the SOL, so there was some math vocabulary used in the SOL questions that was not taught last year and therefore the kids could not understand the question itself. The MI is more about pure computation. My sense is that the MI was weighted much more heavily in the decision because it is a better predictor of raw math ability than the SOL.

Ah, ok that makes sense. The MI score was almost at the top and had high COGAT in math as well.

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Here is the pre-Covid math pathways. 2 options in 6th, 3 in 7th. You can always parent place your child. My oldest had a perfect SOL IN 5th grade, not sure of the MI as this was a few years ago (she’s in HS now) and did regular 6th grade math, pre-algebra in 7th and then Alg 1 Intensified in 8th. I would just try to make sure your kid does Alg 1 in 8th and don’t go crazy with the 6th grade math. The vast majority of students take Math 6 in 6th grade (over 80%).

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https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/MS-Pathways-SY21.pdf

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My concern is that my kid is in the advanced range on the MI, but not above the threshold and wasn’t recommended for compacted 6/7/8, but will attend a high poverty MS where a number of kids in regular Math 6 are really behind. And I’m not just being a jerk; my kid attended a high poverty ES that feed to the MS where the majority of the class didn’t pass the SOLs and is not on grade level and my kid was bored to tears and tired of working alone on the advanced work the Gifted Resource teacher assigned during Covid, so made very little progress last year. What to do? I don’t want this kid, who formerly had a perfect SOL score and was doing work at least a grade level above, to give up on math due to boredom.

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Anonymous wrote:My concern is that my kid is in the advanced range on the MI, but not above the threshold and wasn’t recommended for compacted 6/7/8, but will attend a high poverty MS where a number of kids in regular Math 6 are really behind. And I’m not just being a jerk; my kid attended a high poverty ES that feed to the MS where the majority of the class didn’t pass the SOLs and is not on grade level and my kid was bored to tears and tired of working alone on the advanced work the Gifted Resource teacher assigned during Covid, so made very little progress last year. What to do? I don’t want this kid, who formerly had a perfect SOL score and was doing work at least a grade level above, to give up on math due to boredom.

Parent preference them into pre-algebra. You have the ability to do that.

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Child's MI score was just posted. End of year score is lower than Mid year but no explanation about what these scores mean and why score would have dropped. Any insights on what would cause that? Math teacher didn't respond to emails during the school year, so I won't even bother reaching out since I can't imagine she would respond in July.

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Anonymous wrote:Child's MI score was just posted. End of year score is lower than Mid year but no explanation about what these scores mean and why score would have dropped. Any insights on what would cause that? Math teacher didn't respond to emails during the school year, so I won't even bother reaching out since I can't imagine she would respond in July.

Thanks for the heads up. If it makes you feel better, my child (riding 7th) didn’t even have a score. Apparently she didn’t complete the assessment. Lol whatever, I’m so glad this year is over.

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Did anyone receive a score higher than 1046 ? Curious if that is an upper limit or a coincidence that 2 students received the same score, and one of them received it twice.