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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your daughter making B’s on some assignments or B’s overall in the class? My daughter was scoring in the 70th percentile of MAP in 4th grade and was selected for compacted, but were told she was on the bubble. She struggled a bit in compacted (made a B overall) so took AMP 6+ and is now taking AMP 7+. She’s making As and there is some griping with HW assignments (she doesn’t like math either), but she’s not struggling. I don’t think the AMP pathway is that hard. I think you should accelerate if you have the opportunity to catch the AMP 6+ on-ramp. They could always drop down a level if it doesn’t work out.[/quote]

She's at a B overall so far but I would say roughly half of her errors are just mistakes on things she genuinely knows-- based purely on knowledge I think she'd probably get As overall but still a fair number of Bs on assignments because there are some things she doesn't fully grasp when they're first taught. [/quote]

I think PPs have tried to put this kindly, but it may require spelling out for you: Compacted math is not for students who are Bs overall and are in the 70s percentile-wise on the MAP-M. It is not for your daughter. Stop pushing her. She doesn't "genuinely know things" if she keeps getting them wrong. If you want her to do better, sure, get her a tutor. If she's not into STEM, this is even less relevant, if she decides later that she wants to do STEM and her math skills improve, assess things later.

I actually thought compacted math was for kids 85th or 90th percentile at least. Please don't push your kid into this and ruin things for the kids in compacted who are able to keep up and require even more challenge.[/quote]

My gut instinct is indeed not to push her in the future (we haven't been up to this point either) but I just wanted to check to make sure that's not a mistake.

I definitely don't think she needs acceleration in math, but I was getting the sense that any reasonably smart kid who isn't on track for algebra in MS and calculus in HS is considered "behind" and at a significant disadvantage to the other kids looking forward... basically that if she takes regular Math 6 in middle school that's almost a remedial track.  People are talking about Algebra 1 in 9th grade as being below-level compared to the student body as a whole (let alone kids who are gifted/high-scorers on the humanities side of things-- most of her enriched literacy class is also in compacted math and would be 2 years ahead of her if she doesn't do 6+/etc in middle school.)  is that not true?  I've been following recent posts and am still really confused about all this.

I just want to make sure I'm not letting future-her down if there's a high school magnet or good college she wants to get into and being a "grade-level" (which maybe secretly actually means below-level) math kid turns out to be the thing that holds her back despite her strengths in humanities.  [/quote]

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