Letter to Parents Re: Parents' Math Workshop

Dear Jefferson Parents/Guardians

Greetings!

The Jefferson Middle School Math Department conducted a diagnostic test recently. This test, the Star Math Assessment, is a computer-adaptive, norm reference, Mathematics assessment program. It gives the Math levels of your students for grades 1-12 in about 15 minutes. In Star Math Assessment, the student works through a short, assisted response (multiple choice) test. If a student misses a question, the difficulty level of the next question is reduced. This is an excellent system which lessens frustration and gives more accurate scores for both high-and low-performing students.

Our school focuses on interventions, and as a result of this recent diagnostic test we are offering Math workshops to parents/guardians. This workshop aims to help you to recall and update your Mathematics contents and skills knowledge so that you could assist your child when they need your assistance at home.

As part of our Jefferson family, we strongly encourage you to be involved in this endeavor. We are sending you, through your child, the result of the test. Please, have a heart- to- heart talk with your child and set up some guidelines in the house to help him/her reach, at least, his/her grade placement.

Please fill out the survey below. We can accommodate only 20 parent-and-child partners in each session.

We are hoping for your positive response. Rest assured that, we always value your child’s education.

For further questions, please call telephone number (202)729-3270.

Educationally yours,


The Math Department
Jefferson Middle School