Its absurd to take so much class time up for these when they only use the results on the weak end for resource help. They aren't used for any other purpose.

Weird, most of the kids in my child's aap class have figured out that if they miss a bunch of questions on purpose, the test ends.

Mine took 3-4 days to finish. I told him to take his time with it and to not rush. He does have a tendency to rush through "just to get it over with" even though he knows the material. So who knows if he's just taking it slow or because the questions got hard. Its tough to say.

Reading I ready was completed in a day because it was too easy apparently. He has been scoring in the 99th percentile for reading in the previous years. I don't know what to make of the iready in general.

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Anonymous wrote:Hello! Do AAP kids take the next grade for iready? My son is in 5th so did he take the 6th grade iready? He said he finished 67 our of 100 questions but did good with what he finished. He is really good at math, so that was surprising to me.

I think he must have read something wrong. iReady won’t tell the child how many questions there are. It will just tell when complete. There is no way of knowing how close you are getting to the end.

This. Some kids take multiple days to finish the iReady. One of DSs friends has been known to take a week. It is not timed and there are not a set number of questions. It is adaptive so when you get an answer right, it moves to a harder question. If you get one wrong, it moves to an easier question. Some kids finish in an hour some kids take a few days. Some kids take longer. It is a mess.

Anonymous wrote:Hello! Do AAP kids take the next grade for iready? My son is in 5th so did he take the 6th grade iready? He said he finished 67 our of 100 questions but did good with what he finished. He is really good at math, so that was surprising to me.

I think he must have read something wrong. iReady won’t tell the child how many questions there are. It will just tell when complete. There is no way of knowing how close you are getting to the end.

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Anonymous wrote:No offense but just curious, does your son join any after school math enrichment class? My DC’s also in 5th grade AAP ( been at center from AAP 3rd to 5th), he reviewed everything’s been taught at school ( we haven’t assign him for any outside math learning class) but said today’s math iready’s very hard since a lot of questions that have never been taught at school before. We don’t know if we should send DS to math enrichment class.

No math enrichment, except by me. I have a strong math background so work ahead with him here and there. He didn’t say it was that hard but more that there were some questions he didn’t know and that he thought he didn’t finish.... so wait, there are not a certain number of questions?

No. It is adaptive. They are trying to see their level. Kids at a lower level will have less questions than kids at higher level.

Fewer questions.

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Anonymous wrote:No offense but just curious, does your son join any after school math enrichment class? My DC’s also in 5th grade AAP ( been at center from AAP 3rd to 5th), he reviewed everything’s been taught at school ( we haven’t assign him for any outside math learning class) but said today’s math iready’s very hard since a lot of questions that have never been taught at school before. We don’t know if we should send DS to math enrichment class.

No math enrichment, except by me. I have a strong math background so work ahead with him here and there. He didn’t say it was that hard but more that there were some questions he didn’t know and that he thought he didn’t finish.... so wait, there are not a certain number of questions?

No. It is adaptive. They are trying to see their level. Kids at a lower level will have less questions than kids at higher level.

Iready is aligned to common core and not VA SOLs. The content per grade level does not align perfectly. Also, assuming that 5th grade AAP had the 6th grade question bank, there will still be above 6th grade level content. Some of those questions will be in things that the child would have no chance whatsoever of answering if they had not been exposed to the content, for example box plots.

Anonymous wrote:No offense but just curious, does your son join any after school math enrichment class? My DC’s also in 5th grade AAP ( been at center from AAP 3rd to 5th), he reviewed everything’s been taught at school ( we haven’t assign him for any outside math learning class) but said today’s math iready’s very hard since a lot of questions that have never been taught at school before. We don’t know if we should send DS to math enrichment class.

No math enrichment, except by me. I have a strong math background so work ahead with him here and there. He didn’t say it was that hard but more that there were some questions he didn’t know and that he thought he didn’t finish.... so wait, there are not a certain number of questions?

The iReady should include things that they don’t know, it is adaptive. DS said that it started easy and got challenging. He had to slow down at the end to work through his answers.

Anonymous wrote:No offense but just curious, does your son join any after school math enrichment class? My DC’s also in 5th grade AAP ( been at center from AAP 3rd to 5th), he reviewed everything’s been taught at school ( we haven’t assign him for any outside math learning class) but said today’s math iready’s very hard since a lot of questions that have never been taught at school before. We don’t know if we should send DS to math enrichment class.

We don’t do any math enrichment and DS in 5th has always been a top math performer in class — at a school w/ a very high percentage of students in AAP doing enrichment. He said iready was easy but there where a couple questions that he’d never seen before.

My 5th grader scores high on iready. He does Beast Academy - currently on BA Level 5. He claims he's covered all the material they test on iready already in Beast 2-4.

No offense but just curious, does your son join any after school math enrichment class? My DC’s also in 5th grade AAP ( been at center from AAP 3rd to 5th), he reviewed everything’s been taught at school ( we haven’t assign him for any outside math learning class) but said today’s math iready’s very hard since a lot of questions that have never been taught at school before. We don’t know if we should send DS to math enrichment class.

Anonymous wrote:Hello! Do AAP kids take the next grade for iready? My son is in 5th so did he take the 6th grade iready? He said he finished 67 our of 100 questions but did good with what he finished. He is really good at math, so that was surprising to me.

Iready is computer adaptive. All kids take it. There is no level. It is to see where the child is performing. Most AAP kids fall in the 80-99th percentile.

Hello! Do AAP kids take the next grade for iready? My son is in 5th so did he take the 6th grade iready? He said he finished 67 our of 100 questions but did good with what he finished. He is really good at math, so that was surprising to me.