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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op again. I think the single most disappointing part was that my daughter could not properly do two and three digit addition when a ten or hundreds carried over. It was obvious she had never been taught and had no idea how to do this on paper.[/quote]

It sounds like iready has a pretty good read on your child, honestly.  iready is nationally normed against a group of kids taking grade level math.  But, the math curriculum spirals a lot.  Kids who are naturally very apt at math will put things together and be able to self-extend into material that hasn't expressly been taught, but is the logical extension of the grade level materials.  In the norming group, the 90th+ percentile kids are the ones who intuitively figured out how to carry tens or hundreds after learning how to carry ones.  If iready were normed for just FCPS, only, then you'd be correct that to get 90th percentile scores, you'd need outside enrichment.  Since it's nationally normed test, instead a very bright kid with no enrichment can earn 99th percentile scores, but FCPS will have an over-representation of kids in the highest percentiles.

There are a few issues for you to consider:
Your DD has likely been accurately pegged by iready as being above average, but not super advanced.  You're worried that this will disqualify her from AAP.  This is a somewhat fair concern, but also a somewhat invalid one.  Yes, she will be compared against other kids in her school, and if they're all doing outside enrichment, they might have high iready scores.  Kids are still viewed holistically.  If her application packet looks like a child who needs AAP for language arts and won't fall flat on her face in advanced math, she'll likely get in.  If the CogAT and HOPE are high, she'll likely get in even with a lower iready.

If you want to cover your bases and maximize your DD's chances, then just get a 2nd grade math summer workbook.  Both iready and the workbooks you'll find at Costco or walmart are aligned to common core, so they should work beautifully for a little extra enrichment before the 2nd grade fall iready test.  [/quote]

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