Certified educator Juli McNeil sent in her paperwork in February for recertification for Math Master Classroom. The 34 fifth graders at Blue Creek Elementary in Billings, Montana, would have needed 2,448 total objectives mastered in Accelerated Math to be recertified.

McNeil submitted a Diagnostic Report through the middle of January that showed her class had mastered a whopping 4,224 objectives. When asked for an update on the number of objectives mastered as of late March, McNeil reported they had since completed a total of 6,766 objectives, and show no signs of slowing down yet.

She has students working on the fifth- through seventh-grade libraries.

“One boy in my class has completed the fifth, sixth, and only has 100 objectives left in the seventh-grade library,” McNeill said. “This is his first year doing Accelerated Math. He loves it. One week he mastered 45 objectives. He took it home every night and stayed in at recess every chance he could to work on Accelerated Math.”

McNeil also reported that her class scored 79 Percentile Ranks according to their pre-test STAR Math scores at the beginning of the year. A recent post-test on STAR Math showed her class at 93 Percentile Ranks.

So how does McNeil get her fifth-graders inspired? Click here to see some tips she shared in the March issue of Extraordinary Educators.