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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, the second formative in 7th grade math is this week.  I have no idea whether this one will be a county formative or school-based one.  The first one was a county formative, so can't use that to help prepare since it didn't come home.  And it's all the same topic.  What a shame.  Stupid system.    [/quote]

Why don't you use the study guide from the teacher to study for the test?  [/quote]

We do.  But having seen other formatives and how they throw in problems that haven't been practices in homework, it's best to practice all kinds of problems.  [b]The study guide didn't reflect some of the problems my kid had difficulty with and I'd really like to know how he did on those types of problems on the last formative.[/b]  But since I haven't seen it I don't know.  And he is not studying independently as a high school or college student would.  So I want all the tools I can get to cover the material. [/quote]

I get lost in the BS MCPS lingo - but a formative is different from a summative in the since that one or the other is a county assessment that is required to stay secure and does not come home.

An issue that I have discovered with the new 2.0 curriculum being implemented last year in Algebra and this year in Geometry, not all schools and teachers are on board with the revisions.  Some teachers (either through lack of training or lack of access to the materials) are not changing their lesson plans from the previous courses.  A child might do well on the classroom assessments but then have a great disadvantage on the county assessments.  My child is also coming home from tests that had problems that he had not seen before.

Someone in this county should be held accountable for students who are not taught the new 2.0 curriculums.  A clue would be low performing classes and schools on the county wide assessments.  Unfortunately, these are the assessments that do not come home and carry the most weight in the course.[/quote]

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