I was wondering if any of you have ever heard of a school structuring their curriculum so that students will score better on the CogAT? We have three children in a charter school. Starting with last years kindergarten class, they started teaching an advanced math curriculum to all kids across the board. They are teaching one year ahead so, in kinder they are teaching first grade math, in first they are teaching second grade math and so forth. Needless to say, this is not a good fit for all kids and parents didn't have any knowledge that they were implementing this curriculum change beforehand. Upon further investigation, we were told that one reason is that all children in our state are given the CogAT test in third grade and that it includes division which is not even taught under the normal curriculum before they take this test. This has left parents such as myself scrambling to get the extra help needed for my daughter so that she can keep up with the one year ahead approach. As a curriculum example, they have been doing double digit addition and subtraction with borrowing and have begun multiplication in first grade (age 6-7). Have any of you ever heard of advancing a curriculum for all children for this test?
