Education
Homeschooling a Child Who Struggles With Math: A Working Order
Your child is in tears over the workbook, and still counts on fingers for the basic facts. You are the teacher, so no report card is going to arrive with a diagnosis on it.
Luv Chaudhary
I lead strategy and research at Cuemath. I spend most of my week talking to parents across the US about how their children learn math, and turning what they tell us into what we build and teach.
Education
What Does 90th Percentile Mean for Math Placement?
Your child's math report says 90th percentile. Your child scored higher than about 90 of every 100 students in the test maker's national sample.
Education
How Does a 6th Grader Get Into Accelerated Math in Fremont Unified?
Fremont Unified does not run an entrance exam for accelerated math, and there is nothing to sign up for before the district's letter arrives. The district reads a score it already has, from the i-Ready Diagnostic your child sits at school, and if the score clears the bar, the family picks the class.
Education
How to Read Your District's Math Placement Rules in an Afternoon
Your district's math placement rules are on its own website, almost never on one page. Of the fourteen districts this blog has read, thirteen decide on a test score, eight also count grades, five also count a teacher's word, and thirteen print a window or deadline.
Education
Does Your District Test for Gifted? 14 Districts Checked
In the fourteen districts we have mapped, the split is close to even. In every no-test district the door into advanced math is still there: it is a placement score, a course choice, or a teacher's measure, not a gifted label.
Education
SSAT Scores and ISEE Scores: What the Report Means
The two reports use different scales, and neither comes with a passing mark. On either report, the percentile compares your child with other private-school applicants, not a whole school population, so it can read lower than the percentiles you are used to.
Education
i-Ready vs MAP: Why the Two Math Scores Do Not Match
Your child has an i-Ready score from one year and a MAP score from another, or your district just switched from one test to the other, and the two math numbers look nothing alike. They are not supposed to.
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What Math Does an All-in-One Homeschool Curriculum Include?
Every all-in-one homeschool curriculum ships with a math course already inside, and across the seven programs on this page that course is one of two kinds. None of these boxes places a child against the grade standards a school would use.
Education
NNAT Test vs CogAT: What Each Score Report Means
The NNAT and the CogAT are both ability tests districts use to screen for gifted and advanced programs, but they measure different things. A score on one does not translate to a score on the other.
Education
What Is MATHCOUNTS, and How Does a Child Get In?
MATHCOUNTS is a live math competition for students in grades 6-8, run by the MATHCOUNTS Foundation, and the school enters it, not the parent. A school registers up to 14 students, names a coach, and sends them to a local chapter competition in February 2027.
Education
Kindergarten Math: What Your Child Should Know by June
By the end of kindergarten, the published standards expect a child to count to 100 by ones and by tens, count out up to 20 objects, and write the numbers 0 to 20. The list is short, and most of it is number.
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How Does a Child Get Into Advanced Math in Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and San Jose?
Three Bay Area districts hand the math acceleration decision to three different parties. The same child, with the same report card, can land differently across a district line.