FCAG sponsored a featured speaker on Feb. 24th, 2013 at Longfellow Middle School. Prof. Arthur Benjamin ( http://www.math.hmc.edu/~benjamin/ ) gave speech to about around 400 audiences ( planned for 200 audiences). Prof. Arthur first showed a new 'invisible' card magic he never … [Read more...]
AMC 8, 2012 sponsored by FCAG
2012 AMC 8 (http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e4-amc08/amc8.shtml) was held on Nov. 13, 2012. It was Tuesday. My son took AMC 8 through FCAG sponsored free AMC 8 test. (FCAG is a non-profit organization helping gifted and talented kids and their parents in Fairfax county. Actually, they … [Read more...]
The brief history of Fairfax County Public School’s Policy toward Algebra 1 in 7th Grade
In 2001-02, FCPS required a minimum IAAT percentile score of 98%ile, plus a good score on an exceptionally difficult “Math Seven Assessment” test. That was the first year of a FCPS 3-year extreme anti-acceleration regime. In 2004-05, the pendulum started to swing, the required … [Read more...]
Riverside GT Center – some basic info
Back in 2002-03, GTAC members received a document showing 19 students admitted to the GT Center program from the six Cluster IV elementary schools that would feed into Riverside: Fort Belvoir (3); Mt. Vernon Woods (3); Riverside (3); Washington Mill (6); Woodlawn (2); and … [Read more...]
the link to IAAT publisher’s website
http://www.riverpub.com/products/iaat/index.html … [Read more...]