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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way I see it is that the percentage doesn't really matter.  Are they targeting the right skill and are they giving him adequate interventions to reach the goal?  If so, the goal isn't going to change before the next IEP meeting, so if he is capable of 90% or whatever you think it should be, he'll get there regardless of whether it says 70% or 90%.   [/quote]

I think the child is capable of getting his times tables correct more than half the time, so with "1 teacher prompt" -- which I assume is something like -- "No, 7x6 is not 35.  Try that again" and by drawing an array of 7 Xs in a row times 6, and then counting them to get the correct answer -- and assuming that this is untimed, the child COULD pull of 70% correct.

But that doesn't mean he can multiply well enough to then apply the skill on in, say word problems, or non routine problems, where his mental energy really needs to be freed up to do other things.

Of course the schools answer will be to give the child permission to use a calculator, but why ca't they just teach him to multiply?

With a goal of 70% accuracy with one teacher prompt for multiplication, there will never be an incentive to teach the child how to multiply.

Sure, the parents can pay for private tutoring, but why should they?  They have a child finishing 7th grade who cannot multiply, and never evaluated until parents questioned this.    He was just passed on and up.[/quote]

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