Unless your kid has a disability they are ready for it if the are prepared to work consistently. You should have more faith in your genetic material. But then again perhaps you do and avoid challenges...whether in math, the office or on the playing fields.

"Why would you want your kid to get into a class if they aren't ready for it? The test will help place the kid in the class that is right for the kid."

Nonsense. Prep is not a one time or occasional function. Early, slow and steady knocks the ball out of the park for a lifetime. Enjoy and have fun while doing so. No master of a craft runs out of the motivation to train and prep daily. If your children are not resilient then of course do not encourage this advice. Just have them play with electronic toys, watch movies, and call the shots in your household!

"I prepped DC before the math test, explaining a problem they got wrong last time.

DC said they got a similar question this time and knew how to solve it, and explained. Spoiler: DC was wrong.

So much for prep!"


Don't throw the baby out with the bath water if you don't know how to prep or train. People flunk at these tasks too!

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone feel the parents are a bit neurotic about MAP tests? I am one of them. If we were okay with whatever score our kids got and whatever class they were in there would be so much less stress in our lives..

Yes, I am neurotic about it because I want my kid to get into compacted math.

Why would you want your kid to get into a class if they aren't ready for it? The test will help place the kid in the class that is right for the kid.

Exactly!

Not exactly. The best way to achieve a high MAP score is to make sure your kid is a mile long and an inch deep in math skills. It doesn’t test whether a kid is “ready” for more challenging courses. It simply measures whether a student knows how to multiply, divide, add fractions etc. Each of these concepts is tested at a surface level. So yes, it helps to “study” for it in the sense that a kid who is exposed to more concepts will have the ability to do much better than a kid who hasn’t had that exposure.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone feel the parents are a bit neurotic about MAP tests? I am one of them. If we were okay with whatever score our kids got and whatever class they were in there would be so much less stress in our lives..

Yes, I am neurotic about it because I want my kid to get into compacted math.

Why would you want your kid to get into a class if they aren't ready for it? The test will help place the kid in the class that is right for the kid.

You clearly have no idea what the MAP actually tests. It’s not a math aptitude test at all. It tests whether a student has been exposed to and mastered math concepts. An incredibly smart 3rd grader with huge potential who is doing only grade-level work in school and not getting any enrichment at all outside of school to concepts that go beyond this grade level work will not score as high as a kid who is ok at math but whose parents have drilled multiplication and division facts, decimals, fractions, units of measure etc. at a 4th and 5th grade level outside of school. Kid A is more than ready for compacted math. Much more so than Kid B in many respects. But without extra studying, that won’t bear itself out in MAP scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone feel the parents are a bit neurotic about MAP tests? I am one of them. If we were okay with whatever score our kids got and whatever class they were in there would be so much less stress in our lives..

Yes, I am neurotic about it because I want my kid to get into compacted math.

Why would you want your kid to get into a class if they aren't ready for it? The test will help place the kid in the class that is right for the kid.

Exactly!

Anonymous wrote:So I prepped my elementary school daughter for the MAP test by telling her to take as much time as she can answering the questions. She took the literacy test yesterday and the test timed her out after an hour. I assume the teacher will let her continue sometime this week but she told me she was the only kid who did not get to finish the test. She also said that the test was extremely difficult with very long passages that required her to re-read certain sections to answer the questions, so I assume she was doing well and getting more and more difficult questions.

Its adaptive, so it's hard for everyone, except kids who are absolutely clueless and think their wrong answers are correct answers to easy questions.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone feel the parents are a bit neurotic about MAP tests? I am one of them. If we were okay with whatever score our kids got and whatever class they were in there would be so much less stress in our lives..

Yes, I am neurotic about it because I want my kid to get into compacted math.

Why would you want your kid to get into a class if they aren't ready for it? The test will help place the kid in the class that is right for the kid.