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Math still is not a favorite subject for Melissa. She prefers spelling and social studies, but when she was asked if she dislikes math less than before, she said, “Kind of.”
For Melissa, success in math means different things. In the math lab she was working on a computer program. There is a little man on the screen, and she has to answer math programs for him to be able to move through the gates and up the steps to the higher levels. “When school stopped, I was almost to the top,” she said.
In her regular math class with Richard Smith as the year was drawing to the close and the class had almost finished the book, Mr. Smith frequently organized the class into teams with all the students in a row making up a team. The rows would compete in math drills, and Melissa was able to score points for her team.
Melissa’s success was part of a general pattern for remedial programs in math and reading at both schools last year.
The Chapter 1 program at the elementary school, the reading and math labs, serves students who test between the 25th and 40th percentile on standardized tests. In math those averages translated to 34 stu
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