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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

My kid did exactly the skip you want yours to do.  He went from 1st grade math in 1st to AAP 3rd grade math in 2nd.  I just looked it up because I was curious, and he had a 560 iready math score in the fall of 2nd grade.  FCPS is really weird and difficult with grade skipping in math.  They want your kid to be 3-4 years ahead to do a single skip.

Iready alone is not sufficient for skipping ahead.  If you really think that your child should be skipped, you can have your child tested one-on-one by your school Math Resource Teacher.  Unless the teacher agrees that your child is far ahead, it is unlikely that they'll let your kid skip.  For my kid, they confirmed through this testing in the middle of 1st grade that my kid knew all of the content through the end of year 4th grade math.  He quite possibly knew more, but they stopped testing at that point.  They still only offered a single year skip into a class for which they said that he already knew all of the material.

OP, from what you posted, I doubt your child would be close to the level FCPS wants to see to let your child skip ahead a year in math.  If you really want to pursue this, I'd bring it up to the classroom teacher, who would likely be able to give you perspective on how your DD's needs would best be met.  [/quote]

Op here - thanks for the informative response. Did you initiate the testing or did the school come to you? Also, may I ask if your DC is at a high SES school?  I think ES attitudes seem to be different depending on the SES of the school.[/quote]

I requested the testing.  After the testing, we had a conference with the principal and math resource teacher.  The principal said that he agreed to test my kid mostly to humor me, with the expectation that my kid would test as smart, but still well served with LII materials.  Skipping kids ahead is a logistical nightmare for schools, teachers, and often the students.  When my kid pushed up into the 3rd grade AAP classroom, he had to be pulled out of 1 hour of his language arts block every day.  He then needed to make up the missed language arts when his regular class was doing math.  [/quote]

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