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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bit of advice. Stop talking about MAP scores. You'll sound silly. They are irrelevant in the magnet. Many kids have MAP above 300 and there's no correlation between MAP and the classes they take and how they do or whether they are a star on the math team or would never touch math team with a 10 foot pole.[/quote]

Interesting. I have 3 kids and have followed their map scores for years. If found them to be pretty reflective of their math skills.[/quote]

MAP score "rank" roughly matches math skill "rank", but can be a poor match for students who focus a lot only on higher-level school math or only on highly enriched grade-level subjects. Many students do [i]both[/i], so aren't affected by this.

It is reflective of knowledge up to about 290 (Algebra 2 + basic stats), but for highly above grade level / enrolled course  scores doesn't distinguish exposure to the recipes via Khan/IXL vs solving previously unseen problems via personal innovation, and it doesn't test depth at the level of Magnet math. So it's a noisy signal for ability to handle enriched content.

(See all the posts about math homework, and [i]only[/i] math homework, taking hours per night. This is not intended by the teachers; these are students who hyper-accelerated without sufficient depth of understanding, because they weren't challenged to stretch beyond the basic school curriculum.)[/quote]

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