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available to students.
• Setting a goal for improved student math performance.
• Forming a task force of math teachers to determine and implement strategies to improve student scores.
• Testing students throughout the year using questions modeled after those on the SOLs, and administering released SOL tests in the weeks before official testing.
• Attending state meetings for teachers and administrators on how to improve 6th- and 7thgrade math instruction.
• Working with teachers to ensure all concepts tested by the SOLs are covered in class.
Chappell said that beginning with the 2005-2006 school year, 6th- and 7th-grade SOL math tests included higherlevel thinking skills. According to data released Aug. 23, last year only 67 percent of
90.8%