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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have my own theory about ELA vs math in US. I'm in DC, but I also noticed this pushing ELA  much more than math. I went though MA EC program and how to teach math wasn't in the program.
I spent a year in K classroom here in DC as an aide. The teacher was master of ELA and greatly enjoyed it. Math was a different story. She followed the curriculum, but didn't go beyond like she did in ELA. Any time there was extra time, books were pulled out. It was never  taking out individual white boards for math.
Also, ELA is all over the math. Kids have to know how to read to do math. It's hardly ever the other way around. 
Few math teachers or enthusiasts end up elementary classroom teacher, but so many who love anything ELA, were in the classroom.
In Soviet Union, we had the opposite. ELA offers the chance for fantasy and ideas- something nobody really cared for in SU. The books they may have written, were never going to be published.
Math on the other hand was in every elementary school looking to find the next genius to help them to the moon again. My best math teacher wasn't even math teacher, but even her own math education was good enough to teach us.
My on DC who ranks ca 9th  in his class out of seventy kids in math and ELA, got 4 in ELA and 5 in math in Parcc. This tells me that ELA test was harder this year - pushing ELA again- or math was easy, or both. DC got really close to the max in math within the 5 range. DC was far from reaching max for 4.
Also, any time there was a helper/reading instructor in the classroom, they were all there for ELA. The tutoring I saw by the teacher before school was also ELA, not math or science. Just my thoughts/experience.[/quote]

How can you say l lower score means "pushing it more"? Maybe it means "teaching it less and accepting worse work in class".

Math assessment is an IQ test far more than a test or any specific studying or content. Kids score high or low uncorrelated to teaching.

USSR gave kids low grades in math for bad handwriting or not showing work in the official format, decades before "Common Core" and "Eureka" .
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