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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 2 kids in 3rd and 5th grade AAP. I’ve recently realized that many of their classmates go to kumon or mathnasium. My 3rd grader seems to especially feel behind as he feels his classmates are more advanced than he is in math. Some kids claim to be doing algebra in 3rd grade. We recently moved to Mclean. I didn’t even know what mathnasium was until we moved here.

My 5th grader told me he is in the lowest AAP math group. He said his group is the one who did the worst in pre assessments. At open house, teachers were purposely vague about differentiation within AAP math. We have never prepped or done any outside math with our children. I’m beginning to think we should be doing something.

My 3rd grader recently took another pre assessment and he said he was dumb. He said he got only 4 questions right out of 20 while others were getting everything right. I told him this was for the teacher to see where everyone was at and DS said he was the dumbest kid in the class.

Both my kids scored 99th percentile in their math Cogat and have always received 4s in math.

Should I be sending my kids to mathnasium or similar?[/quote]

Start with the basics: FCPS pays for Prodigy, the math learning app. Make sure your kids are working on that.

Get a few books on math (not workbooks) and have them read them. Work on making patterns with math: specifically, have them identify multiplication and division patterns and work on single variable algebra. We do this at home, it is not hard.

The Everything You Need to Ace Math is an easy read. You can start with that and have them work with you on pattern solving. [/quote]

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