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Math Class Is Too Easy for My Child. What Can the School Do?
Your child says the math in class is too easy. The question is what the school can do about it this year, not whether she can test into a faster course in middle school.
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.
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Drilling or Reasoning? What Common Core Math Asks by Grade
Both. Your child's math class, or the program you pay for, may lean one way: many pages of problems, or fewer problems and more talk about why.
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Algebra 1 in 8th Grade: What Each District's Rule Decides
In 10 of the 14 districts we keep on file, the district decides the 8th grade Algebra 1 seat in 7th grade or earlier. The door is either a gate the district reads in 7th grade or a track the child entered in an earlier grade.
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What Is a Math Circle? Nine Programs, Fees, and Sign-Ups
A math circle is a weekly meeting where children work on math problems that school does not teach, led by mathematicians and math teachers. It is not tutoring, and it is not test prep.
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AP Calc Exam Format: Why a Child Who Gets It in Class Still Goes Blank
Your child follows AP (Advanced Placement) Calculus in class and finishes the homework. Then the test comes back with blank spaces.
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Math with Confidence 2nd Grade: What the Sample Pages Show, Start to Finish
The author, Kate Snow, posts two free samples on her Second Grade Math with Confidence page: a 71-page Instructor Guide sample and a 27-page Student Workbook sample. Between them they hold all of Week 3, one lesson each from ten later weeks up to Week 31, the matching workbook pages, the scope and s
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Where Does Your Child Stand When the School Posts No Class Rank?
Many US schools post no class rank and set their own honor roll cutoff. Here are the five signals a school does give, and the two to ask for first.
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Does the CAASPP Test Matter? What the Math Score Decides
Your child's report from the CAASPP, California's state test, is home, and the question is simple: does this score matter? In California the state test is not a grade, and it is not a gate by itself.
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Can a Sixth Grader Take the 2027 AIME? The New Age-13 Rule
A sixth grader who scores 100 or more on this November's AMC 10 will reach the AIME qualifying score, and the MAA will not let them take the AIME unless they are 13 on the exam day. The MAA's rules for 2027, updated August 26, 2026, add an age requirement: a student must be "13 years or older the da
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Math with Confidence vs Dimensions Math for Kindergarten: What Each Lesson Asks of You
You are teaching kindergarten math at home and the lesson keeps stopping: a baby on the move, a toddler, or a child who answers off-script. Two programs parents weigh for this year, Kindergarten Math with Confidence and Dimensions Math K, print different lesson shapes.
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Private School Admissions for Fall 2027: Deadlines, Tests, and Open Grades
If you want your child in a private school next fall, the application is open now and most of it closes in January. Of 49 selective schools we checked, in the Bay Area, Seattle, the Northeast, Texas, Georgia, and Florida, 44 name a January deadline.
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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.