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[quote=Anonymous]It's possible, if the student is good at figuring things out from context clues, and perhaps lives with older siblings and parents who talk about math. This was my DD's situation - she's never scored below the 99th percentile for MAP. She was placed in Algebra I in 6th.

Just for fun, DH and DD watched Khan Academy videos and explored algebra and geometry concepts together the summer before 7th grade. Then she took the 7th grade MAP test and reported that despite scoring in the 280s, there were few advanced concepts on the test, except I believe some imaginary numbers. But since this is an adaptive test, perhaps  she didn't reach that level where she would have been asked for others? There was some algebra and geometry, of course. Please note that the secondary school MAP-M is rumored to have a max score in the 350 range, although the exact number is not publicly known. Don't know about the MAP-R.

Make of that what you will. I think the most important lesson here is to think of it as a game. My kids always wanted to "beat their own score", just like for a video game.
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