At JM, students qualify for accelerated math through a combination of performance tasks, a district test and their own test scores. Accelerated students take Algebra 1 in 8th grade before starting Campo in Geometry Advanced. Performance tasks ask students to explain their thinking and work through multi-step problems, which is a skill that can be practiced.
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Our UC Berkeley tutors help JM students prepare for those assessments, stay strong once they’re accelerated and build a solid foundation on the standard path. Sessions are one-on-one, at your home in Moraga or online.
Getting ready for math placement
A tutor gives your student multi-step problems and asks them to write out why each step works, the way a performance task does, and then they go over it together. Because classroom test scores count too, the tutor also reviews with your student before each unit test.
A high school schedule, starting in 6th grade
JM’s week already looks like a high school’s: 80-minute blocks on Mondays and Thursdays, an Academy period for getting help from teachers on Tuesdays and Fridays, and all seven classes on Wednesdays. For a 6th grader arriving from Camino Pablo, Los Perales or Rheem, homework is no longer due the next day in every class, and it has to be planned. We help students learn to plan around that schedule. We tutor English, science and history too.
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