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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid has or had fairly high MAP-M scores in 3rd grade (let's say 210ish or higher, or whatever the cutoff for compacted math is if you know it/if your kid qualified), did you do any kind of supplementation or otherwise expose them to concepts before they covered them in school?  Is it common for kids with no supplementation/extra exposure to still get high scores and qualify for compacted math?

I am trying to wrap my mind around what it takes to score high, but from poking around at practice questions, I am seeing a lot about topics that they don't really cover in school until at least after the winter MAP test and sometimes not in 3rd grade at all, from decimals to fractions to various aspects of geometry.  Is the idea that most bright kids can figure these things out on their own? Or are these not actually a big factor in the scoring, so kids who haven't learned these things can still score high?  Or are most high-scoring kids getting exposure to this stuff outside of school (whether formal or informal, i.e. parents using teaching moments to talk about fractions and decimals and such as they come up in everyday life)?  I'm not necessarily talking about the highly-gifted/super-mathy kids here, just your standard smart kids who will qualify for and succeed in compacted math and the typical honors/moderately accelerated math pathway moving forward.

Thanks for any insight... trying to make sense of to what extent my kid's math scores are telling us about aptitude compared to peers and potential for future math success and growth, vs to what extent it is an exposure issue (we don't supplement at all and aren't great about even the informal "talking about math in everyday life" stuff.)[/quote]

Is 210 is really a high in 3rd? I have seen much higher scores being tossed around in DCUM. Can someone with knowledge may shed some light on this? [/quote]

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