Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics

[Anonymous]

My son is in kindergarten and received a report card yesterday. The section "Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics." was "NA" for MP1, but "Yes" for MP2. Could someone please teach me what this means?

[Anonymous]

NA is how they say no.

[Anonymous]

They may not start that until first.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Does "Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics." mean that my son is getting some kind of advanced math for the grade because his teacher thought he is good with math? Is this something 70% of students receives, or 5% of students receives? If your child received this enrichment in kindergarten, could you share what the child did? Are they taken to a different location with a different teacher during that time? Or are they assigned one table in the back of their classroom and given advanced blocks and numbers to play/learn with? Sorry to ask many questions, but these are the questions I am wondering about. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Does "Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics." mean that my son is getting some kind of advanced math for the grade because his teacher thought he is good with math? Is this something 70% of students receives, or 5% of students receives? If your child received this enrichment in kindergarten, could you share what the child did? Are they taken to a different location with a different teacher during that time? Or are they assigned one table in the back of their classroom and given advanced blocks and numbers to play/learn with? Sorry to ask many questions, but these are the questions I am wondering about. Thank you!

You should ask the teacher. Doubt it is uniform across schools / grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Does "Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics." mean that my son is getting some kind of advanced math for the grade because his teacher thought he is good with math? Is this something 70% of students receives, or 5% of students receives? If your child received this enrichment in kindergarten, could you share what the child did? Are they taken to a different location with a different teacher during that time? Or are they assigned one table in the back of their classroom and given advanced blocks and numbers to play/learn with? Sorry to ask many questions, but these are the questions I am wondering about. Thank you!

Yes, it's more advanced math. You will probably notice tougher math worksheets coming home in your kid's folder-for my kid they were algebraic equations and more complicated word problem/puzzles. In my kid's school, they're not taken to a different location, they just get harder work (kids are already in groups, by ability for math.) I don't know the share of students receiving enrichment, probably varies a lot by school. That's all I know, but you can just email your teacher and ask the rest of your questions.

[Anonymous]

New poster here. Do your kids get homework worksheets for math at all? My kid is in K at TPES and there's no homework other than some suggestions on activities at home.
OP, do you mind sharing what school your child is at, or what his/her math score was on the recent test? I'm curious at what level they start enrichment.

[Anonymous]

You would have to ask the teacher. That could mean anything from her checking a box and nothing actually happening to she is actually trying to engage your kid. Either case doesn't mean much other than your kid is doing well and you should be happy about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They may not start that until first.

Nope, it starts in Kindergarten. You can see a line for it on the report card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NA is how they say no.

More like not applicable, since that was for the first quarter of K and the school was still assessing abilities

[Anonymous]

He's definitely super low and struggling, and will probably be retained and need to repeat the grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New poster here. Do your kids get homework worksheets for math at all? My kid is in K at TPES and there's no homework other than some suggestions on activities at home.
OP, do you mind sharing what school your child is at, or what his/her math score was on the recent test? I'm curious at what level they start enrichment.

This is OP. My son does not get homework. I think we are supposed to read books, though. My son's school is close to downtown Silver Spring.

My son's MAP score in Fall was 142 (average), and as I wrote, he did not receive enrichment in MP1 (or maybe nobody receive enrichment in MP1 in kindergarten??). My son likes learning so I started to give him printouts with math equations. He quickly advanced in a few months. Now he is talking about multiplication, which he learned from peeking older kids' homework in the after-school program. No, he does not understand multiplication much, but he is asking me to teach him.

My son knows above-grade-level math because he does a lot of study at home (and it's easier to get advanced at this age). His teacher does not know that he studies a lot, and might think he is somewhat gifted, but no, many kids who is willing to spend 40 min a day doing addition and subtraction will get better at it.

For those who said that I should ask his teacher --- My son's teacher does not respond to email except when it is important. I figured the teacher is busy and cannot respond to all the emails from parents, so I only communicate with her when it is critical.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Does "Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics." mean that my son is getting some kind of advanced math for the grade because his teacher thought he is good with math? Is this something 70% of students receives, or 5% of students receives? If your child received this enrichment in kindergarten, could you share what the child did? Are they taken to a different location with a different teacher during that time? Or are they assigned one table in the back of their classroom and given advanced blocks and numbers to play/learn with? Sorry to ask many questions, but these are the questions I am wondering about. Thank you!

Yes, it's more advanced math. You will probably notice tougher math worksheets coming home in your kid's folder-for my kid they were algebraic equations and more complicated word problem/puzzles. In my kid's school, they're not taken to a different location, they just get harder work (kids are already in groups, by ability for math.) I don't know the share of students receiving enrichment, probably varies a lot by school. That's all I know, but you can just email your teacher and ask the rest of your questions.

OP here. Thanks, this helps. My native-speaker husband thought everyone receives enrichment because he said "that is what the sentence means", so I can show your answer!

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OP, I have a first grade son who also received that box checked in kindergarten and now in first grade. I asked the first-grade teacher what exactly it meant earlier this year, because my kid was saying math was easy and we were routinely doing math for fun with him at home (just silly word problems aloud, but stuff to get him thinking). She said they were working on a schedule to do pull-out math enrichment once a week but they needed to coordinate schedules with 3 other classrooms and their specials (PE, etc) so it was hard to set up. In the meantime, she said she was individually giving my kid and others who needed it enrichment during their math group time with her. So they have math groups every day they spend some time (I think about 20 minutes) with the teacher at the table, and then spend the rest of the hour cycling through math centers. At that teacher-led time, she said she's giving my kid more challenging problems as she sees he's ready for them (they still haven't managed to organize the schedules for pull-out enrichment, which I do find disappointing.)

My kid goes to a Focus school in Silver Spring near the Beltway. There are 18 kids in his class--I don't know if you could do this type of thing with a bigger class.

I see his math work a few times a month when the teacher sends completed work home. There is no math homework other than a calendar given out monthly with a super easy task for each day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have a first grade son who also received that box checked in kindergarten and now in first grade. I asked the first-grade teacher what exactly it meant earlier this year, because my kid was saying math was easy and we were routinely doing math for fun with him at home (just silly word problems aloud, but stuff to get him thinking). She said they were working on a schedule to do pull-out math enrichment once a week but they needed to coordinate schedules with 3 other classrooms and their specials (PE, etc) so it was hard to set up. In the meantime, she said she was individually giving my kid and others who needed it enrichment during their math group time with her. So they have math groups every day they spend some time (I think about 20 minutes) with the teacher at the table, and then spend the rest of the hour cycling through math centers. At that teacher-led time, she said she's giving my kid more challenging problems as she sees he's ready for them (they still haven't managed to organize the schedules for pull-out enrichment, which I do find disappointing.)

My kid goes to a Focus school in Silver Spring near the Beltway. There are 18 kids in his class--I don't know if you could do this type of thing with a bigger class.

I see his math work a few times a month when the teacher sends completed work home. There is no math homework other than a calendar given out monthly with a super easy task for each day.

OP here. Thanks! I will ask his teacher when I get a chance to talk to her about how the enrichment math is taught in his school. If I email her, I will get no response or a very short answer (I know she is busy and I completely understand). But people on DCUM helped me to get some idea about what it is. Thank you very very much.