Anonymous wrote:What do you do if your kid bombs the MAP tests because of rushing when he could actually do much better but now won’t be placed in the lottery or get ELC or compacted math?

Oops.

Anonymous wrote:What do you do if your kid bombs the MAP tests because of rushing when he could actually do much better but now won’t be placed in the lottery or get ELC or compacted math?

You hope that he gets in with the choice lottery. But seriously, this is my kid too. I'm the PP with the 97th percentile DD who is careless and somewhat lazy and rushes things when it comes to tests because she wants to be done with it. I did ask her to go slow with the winter MAP test and she got a 250. Waiting to see what percentile that would be.

Anonymous wrote:What do you do if your kid bombs the MAP tests because of rushing when he could actually do much better but now won’t be placed in the lottery or get ELC or compacted math?

Live with it and move on, as with any other minor life disappointment.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

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Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

What do you do if your kid bombs the MAP tests because of rushing when he could actually do much better but now won’t be placed in the lottery or get ELC or compacted math?

Anonymous wrote:I prepped for my older two using paid online programs that helped to refine their ELA reading comprehension and push forward their math skills. It was basically "one easy trick" sort of stuff, like teaching them basic formulas that are about memorization (Pythagorean theorem, for example) but knowing that they would not be able to explain the "why" behind those formulas.

For my younger two, though, who are coming up after the "85 percent rule," I don't bother. Their scores are high enough to get them in pool and then it is up to luck. It's actually super freeing not to worry about getting a 97th percentile kid up to 99th.

Can you share the website programs you used?

Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

None

Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

For high school magnet pool some prep may be useful since map scores are only test scores used these days. The question is - how to prep...

Lucky all dcum kids are 99th or 97th and in the lottery pool

I prepped for my older two using paid online programs that helped to refine their ELA reading comprehension and push forward their math skills. It was basically "one easy trick" sort of stuff, like teaching them basic formulas that are about memorization (Pythagorean theorem, for example) but knowing that they would not be able to explain the "why" behind those formulas.

For my younger two, though, who are coming up after the "85 percent rule," I don't bother. Their scores are high enough to get them in pool and then it is up to luck. It's actually super freeing not to worry about getting a 97th percentile kid up to 99th.

PP again. I do not help her with home work either. She finishes it when she waits in line for the bus. She does not double check her work and I wish she would do that and she is a bit lazy. My only gripe with her.

No prep. Kid in 97th percentile. In the magnet pool. I know she would do better if she went to Kumon or Russian Math and the like but we didn't push it. Outlier since most Indian kids we know do some enrichment

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Anonymous wrote:How do you prepare MAP?

The measure is largely dependent on exposure, so those who get exposure outside whatever is offered in school are, by and large, going to get higher scores than those similarly profiled but who don't get that outside exposure.

True and since these days teachers only have time for struggling students I have taken it upon myself to teach my kids basic things like math and reading which they won't get at school since their too busy teaching them about equity

Looks like your kid is a struggling student, if they can't learn basic things like math and reading.

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