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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] [b] If you want to get good MAP-M scores, you can't possibly rely on good-old common core curriculum taught only in school to land a high score[/b].[/quote]

Why not?[/quote]

Because the computerized program allows students to keep answering questions, starting with grade-level questions and moving through the curriculum, until they miss a certain number. So once the program gets beyond what a child has learned in school already, they'll need to have had some introduction to the concepts presented to be able to answer them. It's not like an IQ test, where natural aptitude should allow you to solve a certain percentage of the problems presented because they're based on logic and reasoning, rather than any learned material.

Even a very bright third grader will miss a problem involving, say, exponents, or negative numbers, if they've never seen them before at all and have no idea what that funny little number up top means, or how there can be a minus sign when you only have one number. (They don't do negative numbers until 4th grade, right? I can't remember. But you get the idea.)[/quote]

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