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The Quantile Framework^® for Mathematics is a tool that an ever-growing number of educators are using to take the guesswork out of mathematics instruction. A growing number of states across the country are reporting Quantile measures for their students because Quantiles empower educators to utilize best practices in mathematics and meet the needs of ALL learners.

If you are a student or family interested in understanding the Quantile Framework for Mathematics, learning what your child's Quantile measure means, or getting information about this powerful instructional tool, then you have come to the right place!

Overview

The Quantile Framework is a hands-on tool used to determine the mathematics skills a learner is ready for, and which ones require further instruction.

The Quantile Framework allows educators and informed parents to:

• monitor student progress in mathematics regardless of what test is used.
• forecast student performance on end-of-year assessments.
• match students with appropriate materials at their level.
• determine if a student is ready for a new mathematics skill or concept.
• link big mathematical concepts with state curriculum objectives.
• identify a student’s strengths and weaknesses.
• understand the pre-requisite skills needed to learn more advanced concepts.
• adapt instructional methods in the classroom to ensure a greater level of understanding and application.

Understanding a Child's Quantile Measure

Across the country, state education agencies are choosing to link the Quantile Framework for Mathematics with their end-of-year tests. When this occurs, a student not only receives the state scale score on the year-end/beginning-of-the-year report, but a Quantile measure as well.

The Quantile measure on your child's report is a number followed by the letter Q. Measures range from EM, which stands for 'Emerging Mathematician,' to above 1400 Quantiles.

The Quantile measure for a student provides the following types of information for the parent or educator:

• where along the mathematics continuum (the journey in math from early skills to more advanced ones) the student lies
• which specific skills a student is ready to learn next
• what skills a student has relative command of upon which to build new skills
• how difficult an upcoming skill in the curriculum is compared to the student's mathematical understanding
• what level of success a student is expected to have on an upcoming topic/skill, and...
• a prediction of how that student will perform on high-stakes tests when multiple measures are taken all year

The Quantile Framework uses a Quantile measure to describe a student’s mathematical achievement, and the difficulty of specific mathematical skills and concepts.

Teachers can compare apples to apples. The end-of-year tests students take can be used in a way that places the focus on where the child is going, instructionally, in the future - not where they have been.

The developmental scale of the Quantile Framework is made up of a student measure and a list of all the skills that a student will encounter along the entire mathematics continuum. Teachers will find this powerful because their own state mathematics curriculum, the materials to teach mathematics, and the students themselves are all described with the same metric.

In other words, the students and everything teachers use to teach are measured using the same measurement system.

What Does My Child's Quantile Measure Mean?

Your child’s Quantile measure is linked to his or her mathematics score from a standardized assessment and is one indicator of his or her mathematical ability. The Quantile measure is included on the confidential student report.

Quantile measures enable you to be involved in your child’s mathematics development. Using Quantiles, you can identify the skills your child has learned, as well as the skills he or she is likely to encounter next in school and may require extra instruction. Your child should already have learned the skills below his or her Quantile measure. 

Quantile measures do not translate specifically to grade levels. Within any classroom, students will have varying mathematical abilities. Quantiles help educators and parents track student growth in mathematics over time, regardless of grade level. Click here for typical grade level ranges.

MetaMetrics is in the process of developing an automated reporting tool, which will provide parents with a more in depth understanding of how their child's measure relates to new skills the child will be learning in school and what parents can do to help that child develop as a mathematician. Until this tool is complete, tested, and released to the public, we have provided other resources to help you get more involved in your child's mathematical development. On the Resources page you can find links to resources that can help make sense of your child's measure.

You may also request a more personal explanation of your child's individual measure by clicking here.

Click here to learn exactly how teachers can use Quantile measures.

Resources

Resources such as fact sheets, the Quantile map, typical grade ranges, what you can do with the measure, and more can be found on the Resources page.