Enclosed in the SCASD Home Schooling Packet 2010-11 is the following sample outline for third grade math educational objectives. Notably, the Action Plan expectations don’t meet these objectives,…
“By the end of this school year, our child will be able to:
1. Add and subtract three digit numbers.
2. Multiply and divide single digit numbers
3. Perform simple geometry
4. Tell time
5. Count change
6. Know basic temperatures and related instruments
This is the minimum type of outline needed for each subject area. You may provide more detail as in the outline below.
The child will be able to:
- Read, write, and understand numbers through 1,000,000
- Perform basic addition and subtraction facts (1-20)
- Read, write, and understand the following symbols: = < >
- Solve story problems
- Use the order principle
- Use the grouping principle
- Do mental addition
- Know three ways to do subtraction
- Add and subtract when renaming is necessary
- Estimate answers to problems
- Write and solve multiplication equations
- write and solve division equations
- Learn multiplication and division facts
- Measure lengths
- Tell time
- Locate points on a grid
- Read and write some common fractions
- Read and write some decimal fractions
- Add and subtract decimal fractions
- Read and write Roman numerals through 100
- Count out change
- Use the multiplication-addition principle
- Multiply numbers up to three digits
- Weigh objects
- Read a thermometer”
…nor does Investigations 2. Not even remotely close. Enough said.
Barb,
That is amazing – the District has higher standards for home-schooled students than it does for students learning math in school. Do you know if the home-school standards are made up by the District, or the state?
This reminds me of when I was on the high school soccer team and two girls wanted to play on the boys’ team. I went to a small high school with no girls’ team and the boys’ team did not have tryouts, but the girls had to pass a rigorous fitness test (60 situps in a minute, etc.) before they could play on the team – a test boys did not have to take. At the time I wondered if the purpose of the test wasn’t just to discourage the girls from playing – the intent might be the same here.
Steve
I should clarify — these are not standards required by SCASD for home-schoolers, merely an example of what home-school applicants are expected to provide to the district to be approved.
Given that home-schoolers must submit a portfolio to SCASD at the end of the year for review to show that the child received instruction and made adequate progress, these sample objectives may be one thing that home-school supervisors would be expected to have covered and their home-schooled child to have successfully met. Interesting, eh?