 | Thanks Angie, I appreciate your feedback. But now I curious to know more about the Stanford 9 and AMES tests. Do you have any URLs for them that I may get more info? I'm a little concerned about what kind of math a kindergartner needs to know to pass a test! Is this developmentally appropriate? It seems to me that at 5 years old children shouldn't be pressured into passing a test. There will be enough of that when they get older. What was it that the public school missed teaching your daughter that she needed to be tutored in? My kindergartner brought home his 2nd quarter report card and was assessed in Math on the following skills:-counts to 30 -Recognizes basic shapes -COmpletes simple visual tasks/puzzles -Tells likenesses/differences betwen objects - Sorts objects, explains own rule -Counts backwards from 10 -Uses one to one correspondence(0-10) -Recognizes numerals/matches sets to 10 -Knows positional words, ie. under/above
Not assessed at this time is the following: -Identifies ordinal placement(1st-5th) -Shares equally between two people; explains _Arranges objects in order of size -Names days of the week -Creates patterns with actions, words, objects -Writes numerals 0-9 -Creates and identfies sets with more/less/equal -COmbines and removes objests from sets -Estimates quantities less than 20 -Uses non-standard measurement -Identifies, copies, continues and describes patterns
That is basically our public school Math curriculum for kindergarten. How does this compare to Arizona's?
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