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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is in 1st grade. She scored a 160 on the NNAT. Her iready math back in the fall was a 450.  I would like her to skip 2nd grade math next year and attend the 3rd grade advanced math class. Should I speak to her teacher, the AART, 9r the principal first? What other evidence should I provide to convince them that she should be skipped? There has been other students in DC's ES that have skipped a grade for math so it's not unprecedented. I'm just not sure how to go about asking.

Thanks [/quote]

OP: the NNAT score is great, but the IReady score is nothing special and will not be an outlier. It’s likely to be considered an average score. [/quote]

Op here.  The iready norms tables I've seen show that 450 is &gt;99%tile for first grade, and &gt;98% for second grade. It's still 80+%tile for 3rd grade.  I would say that DC's iready score isn't higher because DC ran into iready questions for which she doesn't have the math vocabulary to answer (i.e. it asked what | -4 | equals to; she never has encountered absolute value). While we are at a high SES ES, DC's teacher has repeatedly said that DC at the top of her class and thanks her repeatedly to helping out her classmates with the math assignments.  So things seem to point to her being advanced.

I agree with PPs that the school may not be receptive to putting her in a class that meets her math needs - my question for DCUM is [b] how I can convince the teacher/AART/principal to give her a chance.[/b] [/quote]

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