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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh this is really fascinating!

The stuff on the SSAT is all 6th grade common core stuff.   (or at least 50%) of it.  
DCPS students (unless their parents teach them) have just never seen these concepts (which is why they all need tutoring to take the SSAT by mom and dad or an outside tutor  OR they were informally tutored all along by their parents).

Spring of 5th grade concepts (taught after the kids take the SSAT):

-Summarize and describe distribution (i.e. making a line plot---have yet to learn this in class and we're in March)
-Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems. (introduction of the axis----my 5th grader has yet to learn this in class and we're in March)

6th grade common core concepts (at total list).  These are all over the SSAT.  Essentially this is the lower level SSAT which kids take to enter 6th grade.  Except Common core doesn't introduce any of them until 6th.

-Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
-Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
-Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
-Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers. (i.e. the first time negative numbers are taught!)
-Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
-Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.
-Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
-Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
-Statistics and probability: Develop understanding of statistical variability.
-Statistics and probability: Summarize and describe distributions.

The SSAT is full of probability questions.   These were completely new to my DCPS 5th grader. [/quote]

People, the SSAT for middle school covers 5th through 7th graders -- [b]of course, it has material new to a 5th grader.[/b][/quote]

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