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[quote=Anonymous]I would also emphasize what the percentiles mean - 39th percentile means she scored better than or equal to 39 percent of kids in her grade. It doesn't technically say whether or not this is "at grade level" (unless you got the info on your report of what "grade level" represents) but it does say that she's not in the top half of students in math in her grade level (in theory, everyone can improve enough to be "at grade level" or the standards for "grade level" could drop enough for this to be the case.) I would also agree to take more stock in the MAP scores. If anything though, at our ES, my kids tend to get Bs in math some quarters despite being 98-99th percentile in math. I do always talk to them about what's going on when this happens (because it usually means they're not checking their work enough) but it's not true that every teacher at every MCPS school just hands out As. (I have a hard time believing that everyone else is getting As.)

This is actually why I think that standardized scores can be more useful than grades - they're scored the same way across the state/country. We probably have too many of them and yes, one can have an off day, but they still provide you with good info. Whereas comparing GPAs across schools seems like a fool's errand, regardless of what "standards" teachers are supposed to use to grade them.

So OP - I would basically say, don't trust the teacher at all. Do what you know is best for your DD. There's a chance that math won't be her thing (someone has to be 39th percentile), but she can still improve. (One of my kids jumped from 40ish percentile to 90th percentile on reading over a couple of years.) If she needs more enrichment in math and she's somewhere around grade level, the school won't provide it, so you have to find a way to do so.[/quote]

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