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Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Yahoo
ACAP third-grade test results released — how Baldwin and Mobile schools scored (complete list)
Editor's note: News 5 has added the full ACAP 2024-2025 results. A previous version of this article included a prior year's results. We regret the error. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Alabama Comprehensive Assessment of Progress third-grade scores have been released by the Alabama State Department of Education. Santa Rosa County woman accused of attacking husband with hammer now in memory care facility According to the results, Orange Beach and Satsuma city schools are the only school districts in the viewing area that had 100% of their students make above the cut-off score, which is 444. The 2019 Alabama Literacy Act was created to help improve reading skills and ensure that students are reading on grade level by the end of the third grade. In Mobile County, 3,891 third-graders were tested, with 626 of those being below grade level and 3,265 being on or above grade level. As for Baldwin County, 2,395 third-grade students took the assessment. 246 students scored below level and 2,149 students scored on or above level. Mobile secures historic funding for affordable housing The scores can be found on the spreadsheet below. RD_SP_2025612_ACAP-Reading_v1.0_80983eDownload Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
A maths problem for 10-year-olds leaves parents scratching their heads - but can YOU work it out?
A simple maths problem designed to test children in the third grade has left many parents stumped. Writing on a Reddit thread titled 'Homework Help', one baffled parent from the US took to the forum to share a photograph of the perplexing maths puzzle branded too confusing even for adults. 'I'm not understanding how these problems are supposed to be interpreted', the baffled parent wrote. They had initially provided an answer to the equation, but had been left mystified after discovering it was incorrect and couldn't understand how the answer retrieved by the their child's teacher was correct. Reddit responders were equally bewildered by the equation, which was designed for children aged eight or nine, with many left scratching their heads over how the correct answer had been reached. The question read 'Write an equation that would represent this picture' and included a graphic of what appeared to be an abacus with a differing number of dark and light beads on either side of the device. On the left side were nine beads, including five black, on the top, and an additional four black on the bottom. On the right side was just one white bead on the top and six on the bottom, of which just one was black. Attempting to answer the question the first time round, their third-grade child had offered '13+7=20' as an answer, however, this had been circled as incorrect by the teacher. Befuddled, the parent pleaded for help in understanding why the answer had been marked wrong. 'Any help on the correct way to read these problems would be appreciated and why 13+7=20 isn't correct. 'I'm not understanding how these problems are supposed to be interpreted. 'Do you only look at one side and not the whole picture?' The teacher had written the answer to the question as being nine plus four being equal to 13 - but many were left scratching their heads over why this was correct. Several others in the comments questioned whether the black and white beads were supposed to represent different things, and whether that contributed to the final answer. 'As a grown adult who has never used an abacus, do the colours not matter (black circles vs white circles)?' one wrote. Although many were convinced the device had been an abacus, a hand-operated calculating tool, one responder was quick to point out that it was actually intended to be a rekenrek, a very similar apparatus used to help develop mathematical understanding in young children. They pointed out that the reason the graphic was so confusing was that it was supposed to improve children's ability to quickly recognise values without counting in their head. They explained: 'This is a rekenrek. The colours don't matter here either, but that the visual groups of 5 allow students to quickly subitize the value (identify how many there are without having to count all). So it's just like a visual cue to help kids quickly interpret the information in front of them.' According to their explanation, the colours of the beads do not bear any weight on the answer, and the solution to the problem is only as simple as counting how many beads were swung to the left side of the device - regardless of whether they were black or white. Far simpler than it looked, the right answer only required solvers to look on the left side and put them into equation, ignoring beads on the right and not paying attention to colour. 'You only look at the left side. It is top plus bottom,' one wrote. This is because the beads on an abacus are on a fixed line so are only intended to be counted on the left side - meanwhile, the lead is considered 'out of bounds'. Relieved to have discovered the reasoning to the answer, many expressed their thanks in the comments. 'Oooh thank you. Couldn't figure the colour thing out to save my life,' another grateful Reddit user wrote. Others were left frustrated by the question, which had been designed for children under the age of ten. 'i would also like to point out that as a grown adult who knows what an abacus is but has never used one, I've never heard of a rekenrek in my entire life which makes this 3rd grade math problem all the more frustrating,' one wrote. The abacus is a mathematical instrument which comes from ancient times where it was used to teach young children how to understand numerical principles. It uses slidable rows of beads to help represent equations and can be used to help demonstrate maths equations. In contrast, a rekenrek it is not based on place value columns or used like an abacus, but rather, uses two rows of beads split into into two sets of five. Meanwhile, an abacus is a counting frame where each row stands for a different place value in increasing order.
