Monday, May 6, 2013

Mariah's 1st Day in ESE Resource Room for her 6th Grade Access Point Math! They've GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!

Today against my GUT FEELINGS as a mom....
Mariah attended her very 1st day in an ESE RESOURCE ROOM for MATH! The photo's included in today's post below are what Mariah brought home her first day in the 6th GRADE ESE MATH class. This is what they call 6th GRADE ACCESS POINTS? 

They've GOT TO BE KIDDING...RIGHT??! 

This is so not what she needs to be doing at her Grade Level or for her age!!! She doesn't even have any Math Goals written into her IEP Document anymore and this is what she finally gets "to learn" in the ESE Room? 
FAPE at it's Finest!!
























Today when I was looking over her NEW ESE Math Classwork she brought home from school, l was talking with Mariah and asked her about these Math Problems. She answered them all correctly just talking to her after school. *I think maybe she was thinking of Multiplication with the 0+1 and the 0+3, because Triple-Digit Multiplication is what she has been working on at home, using a calculator.


My daughter is capable of doing much more than  this stuff that came home today, on her 1st day in an ESE Classroom for Math!! This is 6th Grade ACCESS POINTS in Math!?

This is disgusting to me that my daughter's ABILITIES in Math have been WATERED-DOWN to  the Kindergarten Level when she is ABLE to do much higher level thinking in Math computations, using a calculator as her accommodation.

She knows how to divide and multiply, how to change fractions into decimals etc. She LOVES Math and using her calculator! She needs those that are in charge of teaching her, to pump it up a notch and TEACH HER higher level math skills that match HER NEEDS, not to an informal assessment that doesn't reflect her True Abilities!

I do not agree with my daughter now being 'taught' such low grade level Math work, when this is nowhere near what 6th GRADE ACCESS POINTS are! This is far below her Math Abilities!! 
*ESE FAPE Math is way below her Ability to do Math!

Here is a Sample of the Math Problems Mariah enjoys doing once on a roll of doing them. Once shown HOW TO DO THE PROBLEM and has time to practice and practice a few times how to go about getting the answer, she CAN DO IT! She LOVES Math when she is able to have 'a moment' to be TAUGHT the exact way how to go about getting the answer. 

It's predictable....the steps to get the answer!

*Mariah will continue to do Higher Grade Level Math 
Problems at Home. That is in the Best Interest for Mariah's Progress in Math. 
5th Grade Math Worksheets ~ Great Schools.org
http://www.greatschools.org/worksheets-activities/slideshows/6381-fifth-grade-math-worksheets-slideshow.gs

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