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[quote=Anonymous]Teacher here…didn’t read your post entirely. My mistake. I really like using MAP data. I don’t think you should look for additional assessments.

If I were you I would look up math skills, drills, benchmarks (think fractions, decimals, percentages equivalents), as well as general fluency for grade 5.

Print out a bunch of things on this grade level to determine areas of strength/weakness and see if you can prioritize practice. With math, I tell parents that it’s important to actually memorize basic facts. I don’t care what others say about “they need to conceptualize not recall.” This may be good in theory, but applies more to abstract concepts. Conceptualizing,  is “great” but should not discount  the importance of recalling basic knowledge/computation. Recall of basic facts and procedures from the early grades is important like the “grease” on a squeaky wheel. Older grades are not reinventing the wheel when it comes to math content. It’s the same math, the wheel is just spinning faster and has additional spokes.

As a parent, you should want the child to be able to demonstrate equivalence until they are blue in the face, understand multiplication and division (and addition / subtraction) as inverse operations. I could go on and on…

Get them some flash cards and test them. If they suck with flash cards, start there. Those need to be automatically “known” without any processing required. Get flash cards of all the operations. If those are weak, make an incentive for them to get those down. That is the absolute foundation.

Once they demonstrate success across all operations using flash cards begin to assess the nuances of grade level skills. You will find that remediation of learning gaps will be much easier after they have the confidence of fact fluency. [/quote]

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