Compacted 4/5 math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got a form letter yesterday from our school. Letter states that next year there will be 4/5 math and regular 4th grade math. It tells you whether or not your child reached the threshold to be placed in 4/5 math. Looks like there was a test (max. score was, I think, 48). Tells you how well your child did out of that 48. I think the letter said that the threshold was 33 out of 48 (or something close to that).

Not sure how many at our school reached the threshold.

Do you get this letter even if the child does not make it to 4/5 math?

[Anonymous]

We got the letter, but my DC did make the 4/5 math, so I don't know.

[Anonymous]

If you received a notification, would you mind posting the name of your school so we can keep track of what schools have already notified? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

We got it for Wyngate. Our kid qualified, so don't know about non-qualifiers.

[Anonymous]

Somerset notified yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Carderock Springs. Yesterday.

[Anonymous]

What percentage (average?) of 3rd graders would have qualified?

[Anonymous]

Is this MCPS solution to getting around 2.0? If so I'm feeling a little better about 2.0.

[Anonymous]

MCPS says very few kids will qualify. I wonder if that is true.

[Anonymous]

It stands to reason that MCPS would want a full 4/5 class in each school. If less than a full class, then the school would be using the resource (a teacher) on just a few kids. That won't fly in MCPS. I would think that might mean that schools would have either a full 4/5 class or maybe no 4/5 class. I just can't imagine MCPS allowing a math teacher to teach, say, 5 or 6 kids this advanced math while the rest of the kids all crowd into another math class.

[Anonymous]

13% of 3rd graders made the cutoff benchmark score.

[Anonymous]

Bradley Hills, today.

Has anyone outside the Whitman/Walter Johnson clusters received letters?

[Anonymous]

13% countywide (in which case, how do you know?) or your school?

It is to be expected that the "very few" will cluster in some schools and be scarce at others. But it would go against everything Starr has said about the "very few" if there were a full class in every school, and it will never fly with parents/parent advocates if it is all or nothing (either a full class or not offered at all.)

Stay tuned.

[Anonymous]

My DC is accepted to HGC and qualified for compacted 4/5 math. Almost all the kids who are going to HGC received the score of 48 (maximum).

[Anonymous]

Is there anyone here with a third grader who circumvented 2.0 to be placed into an accelerated 4th grade class this year?