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File this under Peace of Mind.

When I first began teaching Christopher seriously here at home, I was flying blind.

I knew he was easily passing all his Saxon Math tests, but I had no idea what that might mean in the larger scheme of things. The tests seemed awfully easy to me.

Was he doing as well as a child passing all his tests in any other curriculum would be doing?

What did other kids his age know about math, anyway?

I had a lot of anxious days.

Math Coach tells parents trying to do what I was trying to do (catch Christopher up to where he was supposed to be, and then teach him enough extra math to bump him onto the accelerated track) to start by hiring an educational psychologist to administer a battery of standardized tests of math knowledge and skill.

That sounded like good advice, and in the best of all possible worlds I would have had a trained professional explaining my son's Math Profile to me: strengths and weaknesses, scales and subscales, percentile standings, the works.

But seeing as how here in Westchester County private assessments run into the countless thousands of dollars, I figured, Let's just put our heads down, run like he**, and pray that sheer doggedness and force of will can get us there.

That turned out to work.

On the other hand, the suspense was killing me.

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Today life is much calmer, thanks to the folks at Mathematically Correct, who've posted a set of sample problems for the CA tests. The problems were written by the LA County Board of Ed, and the test is a perfect length. Just a few pages long, but everything is there.

Keep these in a safe place.



See also:
DontRelyOnStateTests
PenfieldParents
NewYorkStateMathCurricula
CompareAndContrastPart3
FriendlyFractions
PaperFractions
ADifficultChild
ADifficultChildPart2
WorksheetsForSummer
AssessYourChildForFree
AssessYourChildForFreePart2
BonusOnlineAssessmentQuestions

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