Reply to Are there advantages to 7th grade Algebra and 8th grade Geometry?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Are there advantages to 7th grade Algebra and 8th grade Geometry?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, in addition to test scores, you also need to look at your kid overall -- does he do well in math? My ds is not a fantastic test taker (some processing issues on timed tests) but he is really a math kid. He was put into regular 6th grade math when we moved here from out of state because of the placement test score, but we moved him up to IM in two weeks because he was bored silly. He's now entering 10th grade and will be taking pre-calc this year, AP Calculus BC next year, and some advanced math class senior year.

If we'd gone by the test scores (and only listened to the school administration, rather than our kid and his first 6th grade math teacher, both of whom said he was bored and needed to be in the higher class) we'd have kept him back. Test scores are not the be all and end all.[/quoted]

You also have to be sure that if the schools are using test scores, they are looking a more than just one test on one day.  My DS was being pulled out for an advanced math group as early as Kindergarten, was ID as gifted in math and always "pass advanced" in SOLs.  But, on the day of the math placement test for middle school something was going on with him and he didn't score that well.  Based on that alone he was placed in 6th grade math where he'd have been really bored.  I asked the math coordinator to take another look at his whole math history and he was moved to the advanced track where he has done well.  And he does not need hours of tutoring weekly as a PP said her child needs -- really, if that amount of tutoring is needed, maybe your child needs to be on a slower pace.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics