Deonne - See this link for what 217 in math on MAP equates to, in the context of another poster's question.
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....ch/true/Re_MAP_test_Score.html#Post96639 for a second-grader, it's in the 99 percentile. It's very very high. The MAP shows what your child knows now, so I think it's better than a "snapshot." From the links on the other thread, you should be able to get some info about what the score means, and what types of functions your child is ready for.
We had the same issues with our DS7 and math, along with accelerating into second this year. We had the meeting with the school saying that we felt the homework coming home was not challenging enough, and we were told at one point that homework was not meant to be challenging! At that point, we realized that we were having a communication problem... At any rate, we asked for subject acceleration into 3rd grade math, and they felt that he hadn't "mastered" the 2nd grade curriculum and also his handwriting was too poor to keep up in 3rd. They ended up pretesting him, and when he did well enough to test out of a unit, he got to move on to new concepts with the gifted coordinator. The classroom teacher also differentiated with him and another student, and when he saw that DS mastered the one or two concepts he missed on the pretests, he was sent to the gifted teacher.
This probably would have worked OK, but then we got the opportunity to move our DS to a school for HG kids, where they work ahead a year and also at a faster pace. This has been fabulous. The troubles we had at the old school re: pace are now taken care of, and now he also isn't the only one learning at his level.
As for making the teachers understand the numbers, spend some time on the NWEA site that is in the other thread. I'll try to post more later..
