Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Has anyone tested w/ MAP at home? ? about score

As an example, if you go to the NWEA website and go through the powerpoint presentation as recommended, for the grade 2-5 test, a sample math question is

I 2x+4 I = 20

those lines are absolute value lines. The answers were 8 or -8, 8 or -12, and then 2 more choices I don't recall. WEll my 1st grader was trying to figure that out and getting flustered b/c he didn't understand absolute value signs. It didn't make the test go well. It didn't start w/ what I would call typical 2nd grade material. there were no clocks, money, time for instance. I guess I thought a 2nd grade test would start with some 1st grade concepts lol.