Its actually very common in Montessori preschools to teach multiplication and division in preschool-K. The concept itself is not hard -just adding sets of numbers or pulling out sets of numbers. There has been research that US education is very backwards by holding back math concepts that young children can easily grasp while pushing reading skills that are not developmentally appropriate at young ages. Both my kids were doing multiplication and division by K, understood the concepts and were bored in MCPS math. When my son was four, he understood fractions. He didn't learn them in school and I never taught him but he had seen them on the Wii video games that he played. I caught him doing his older siblings math worksheet homework because older DS thought is was boring baby work and younger DS could do it.

Skipping a year in math will not help your child because MCPS math is so terrible. The math component of 2.0 is just criminally bad. Worksheets full of errors. Garbled concepts either poorly convened or in some cases just wrong. Other issues include a ridiculous perverse way of obscuring the balance and systemic qualities of math. It truly was written by people who couldn't do in math in school and never learned it.

You have to supplement math at home if you have a math oriented kid or just wait until they reach high school for them to enjoy math in school.

Anonymous wrote:What grade? At our high performing school I think the cut off for enrichment was 85th or something this year because they wanted a full class of kids. When they had smaller groups it was 99th percentile.

K. But if there has been any sort of pulling out, I haven't heard about it. Quite honestly, I doubt it means much of anything, which is fine at this point.

It just means they haven’t started his kind of enrichment yet. The line is there on all the report cards.

What grade? At our high performing school I think the cut off for enrichment was 85th or something this year because they wanted a full class of kids. When they had smaller groups it was 99th percentile.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought that this was supposed to be for kids scoring at least the 80th percentile on the MAP math test.

80% is a great score but many kids are testing this high. My understand is its only for kids who are 98-99's.

My kid is not getting math enrichment even though her map score last fall was 99%.

My kid had it marked as yes both marking periods, but I have no idea what, if any, true enrichment he is receiving. His MAP (which I don't think would have even been available for the first marking period) was high 80s and we are in a high performing school so I doubt this was much of an outlier.

This is very school and teacher dependent. In K, DD had pull outs with a 3-4 kids from the grade. It was the first year our school offered this type of pull out in a long time, they said. It was usually during free play time and they did the regular math exercises with the rest of the class. They tried to do it once a week but it wasn't consistent. There wasn't formal instruction but they worked through different kinds of puzzle worksheets together.

In 1st and 2nd enrichment was a packet of problems DD got to do during her free time. I don't think anyone checked them or discussed the problems with her so it was kind of busy work.

This year in 3rd, our school has a full class of about 20 doing enrichment once a week during the math period teacher who gives a short lecture and then they go through problems as a class. Next year I'm assuming compacted math is the enrichment and no more.

Mine said NA for first quarter (I assume it was because they were assessing abilities and everyone was doing the same thing).

Yes for 2nd quarter. Earlier this week, my DS told me that while most of the kids were working on numbers 1-100, his teacher gave him a 101-200 number worksheet (I don't know what they were doing - but he got a different worksheet).

I know you said you only email your teacher when it is critical, but you have a right to schedule a meeting with the teacher if you want more information about what he is doing in class!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Does "Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics." mean that my son is getting some kind of advanced math for the grade because his teacher thought he is good with math? Is this something 70% of students receives, or 5% of students receives? If your child received this enrichment in kindergarten, could you share what the child did? Are they taken to a different location with a different teacher during that time? Or are they assigned one table in the back of their classroom and given advanced blocks and numbers to play/learn with? Sorry to ask many questions, but these are the questions I am wondering about. Thank you!

Ha, my child’s report card always said this. At our ES I was always told that the teachers were making up a special work that my daughter was doing in class. She was never pulled out to a different location by herself or with other kids to do advanced math. However, when I asked to see that work I was told I could not see it, and no, it would never be coming home.

This was only added to the report card last year.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Does "Your child consistently receives enrichment in mathematics." mean that my son is getting some kind of advanced math for the grade because his teacher thought he is good with math? Is this something 70% of students receives, or 5% of students receives? If your child received this enrichment in kindergarten, could you share what the child did? Are they taken to a different location with a different teacher during that time? Or are they assigned one table in the back of their classroom and given advanced blocks and numbers to play/learn with? Sorry to ask many questions, but these are the questions I am wondering about. Thank you!

Ha, my child’s report card always said this. At our ES I was always told that the teachers were making up a special work that my daughter was doing in class. She was never pulled out to a different location by herself or with other kids to do advanced math. However, when I asked to see that work I was told I could not see it, and no, it would never be coming home.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought that this was supposed to be for kids scoring at least the 80th percentile on the MAP math test.

80% is a great score but many kids are testing this high. My understand is its only for kids who are 98-99's.

My kid is not getting math enrichment even though her map score last fall was 99%.

+1 my kid didn’t for K either despite 99% scores. The teacher said he was having difficulty with the multi step problems. But he got enriched for 1st grade.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that this was supposed to be for kids scoring at least the 80th percentile on the MAP math test.

80% is a great score but many kids are testing this high. My understand is its only for kids who are 98-99's.

My kid is not getting math enrichment even though her map score last fall was 99%.

And my kid is at 91%.

I realize this may be unclear - my kid gets enrichment at 91% on MAP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that this was supposed to be for kids scoring at least the 80th percentile on the MAP math test.

80% is a great score but many kids are testing this high. My understand is its only for kids who are 98-99's.

My kid is not getting math enrichment even though her map score last fall was 99%.

And my kid is at 91%.