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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher. MCPS is using the following numbers:

220 in the Fall 
Or
238 in the Spring

The kids must meet one of those two score.

There are also 2 other required criteria. [/quote]

So 90th%? Sorry, but that is crap, particularly as our DC’s class didn’t even cover all of the material.[/quote]

I think that is the point... if they didn't cover the material and don't know it, compacting curriculum and moving forward in addition to what was missed already would not be beneficial.[/quote]

The same would be true of all kids in that class unless they had outside support and tutoring to cover that material. So much for equity, especially in the pandemic. So curious how this will impact DCs class where many of the kids were in the care of cousins and older siblings and just joining class and submitting assignments was a big deal. Such a crappy way for the county to manage this. Let’s be as disruptive as possible to kids midstream. [/quote]

They covered all the material at our school. Not sure which schools are failing to keep up and why.[/quote]

Ours too.  I think its parents just justifying why their kids aren't doing well and don't feel like getting involved and monitoring so they are blaming the school instead.[/quote]

This is just not true. Feel free to pat yourself on the back if you have done outside instruction for your kid, but please do not put down other kids.

Compacted math is a two-year course. It was decided earlier in the year that we would combine the 4th and 5th-grade geometry units and only teach it once. This makes sense as there is so much overlap. The instruction for this unit is during grade 5.  This instruction includes using a protractor, types of angles, the difference between rays and lines, volume, etc... These are not topics that a child without outside instruction can just figure out.

To explain why this matters, you have to understand more about how the MAP test is scored. It is broken into 4 domains- one of which is geometry. It is normal for all kids to have some variation in the 4 domains. A child can have a domain that brings their score up, but also a domain that brings their score down. For all of our students, we are seeing that their geometry domain scores are bringing their overall scores down. There are children that score high in the other 3 domains, but are not hitting the target score- a 96th percentile in the country score.

This is a reach score and is hurting some kids. Hopefully we will have some flexibility that has not been offered to this point. [/quote]

On the contrary, it is true. At our school compacted 5/6 is currently finishing module for of grade 6. They kept up and covered all the material. I really don't know what the problem is at some schools. [/quote]

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