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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 6th grader is in Algebra 2. I talked to the principal and math chair and they base acceleration on placement tests, MAP (255) and IXL (1010). The class is fairly easy bc it’s project based and it’s not honors, and he doesn’t have any issues with mastering the content, he knew most of it from outside enrichment. Organization and keeping up on top of assignments can be a challenge, I recently noticed several incomplete assignments. These things can be learned over time, just as the academic curriculum, and its part of the grade.

I agree with some previous posters that the school curriculum will be inadequate whatever the placement, but there are some benefits from getting requirements out of the way and doing advance classes like AP and DE early.[/quote]

MAP 255 in 5th grade got an Alg 2 placement in 6th??

Good luck; you'll need it. [/quote]

A MAP 6+ score of 255 is 90th percentile for 10th graders nationally, definitely more take Algebra 2 and master the content to pass with A.

I’m sure someone else will jump in saying their kid scored 280 in 2nd grade on who knows what version of the MAP test. The vast majority of posters have never seen a MAP report that gives a detailed list of topics the student should work on. If it overlaps with the Algebra 2 curriculum then that’s the correct placement which anyways should be based on multiple measures. MAP, IXL or MDTP are all fine. IXL is slightly better because it covers more areas, but takes longer compared to the others.[/quote]

It's not really about what score corresponds to a high schooler who never learned algebra 1 well and is scraping by.  It's looking down the barrel of 4 years of post-calculus math in high school with test scores in the low-to-mid range of students who are still getting at least some value out of reinforcement of 2-years previous content. 
MAP 255 means barely passing knowledge of on-level geometry for non-university-bound kids, not A-level mastery of Algebra and Geometry for a 1-in-1000 hyper accelerated kid.

ES parents don't realize that you can't climb the math ladder just by being bright and getting a handle on the new stuff every year, like in social studies  or science. You need to remember and understand almost everything from all the previous years, which gets harder every year as the body of knowledge grows and each next year adds more on top of the foundation of the previous, especially at the post-calculus level. [/quote]

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