Many parents ask us (sometimes complain too! - see note at the end!) if they should move their child to a higher grade (or lower their child a grade or two) if their child is getting through the math problems easily (or having difficulty with the practices or assessments).
Here are some suggestions to guide you through this:
- If your child continuously scores Good or Excellent (proficiency rating as determined by our program) in practices and assessments for a period of 3 weeks or more (assuming a minimum of 3 assignments a week), then it would be an appropriate time for you to consider moving your child to the next higher Grade.
- On the contrary, if your child struggles with proficiency rating of Average or below for a period of two (2) weeks or more (assuming a minimum of 2 assignments a week), then it would be an appropriate time for you to consider moving your child to one or two grades lower. We only recommend this in the spirit of not letting your child lose interest in math as well as not letting your child lose confidence in math. As with any subject / area of study, you want to build on success.
One of the features (we think it is a cool feature) of our program is that you are NOT constrained to keep your child locked in a particular Grade. We frequently hear from parents that say that our program has helped their child(ren) test their child's math knowledge on topics that they have not yet studied formally in school.
Now to the steps involved in changing your child's enrolled grade in our program:
- Login (at www.indianmathonline.com) as the parent (with your email address and your password)
- From the screen that displays, click on the menu "My Account" (you can find the menu at the top of the page)
- From the screen that displays, click on your child's name
- From the screen that displays, select a different Grade in the drop-down for the field "Select a Grade to enroll your child"
- Once you have selected a new Grade, click on the action / button "Save"
Once you have "Saved", the system will use the newly selected Grade to assign future assignments for your child. Please allow 4-6 hours for this change to take effect - the background process that is responsible for assigning assignments runs frequently and will recognize this change and will do the necessary "thing".
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DISCLAIMER: The recommendations and suggestions made above are NOT scientific, but based on practical use of our program. We are working on enhancing our program to use intelligence based data to recognize when a child should be moved to the higher Grade (automatically) or downgraded (with the assistance of the parent). Until such time, the above recommendation are just that. So, please don't flood us with emails such as "you said in that blog entry that ..." or "we did this on your advise..." . We are providing our "collective" judgment and we think you will benefit from this collective experience.
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(And now to those complaining - if you think it is a waste of time - I am sorry, if you think it is a waste of time for your child to practice math problems and you find out that your child is getting through the problems easily - we didn't intentionally devise the program that way!)
