Apologia science and math

[mama26]

I have a math-challenged high schooler and I was wondering how much of the math component in Apologia science is intrinsic to the course. In other words, if we left out the math portions, would she still get the concepts of the science without the math part added in? Has anyone here done this?

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

[LittleHouseHomeschool]

I have a math challenged son and unfortunately, Apologia proved very difficult. He will not be a science major, so we had him work through ABeka instead. It was a solid fit. (Though I feel the science in ABeka could be updated...at least 10 years ago.)

 

That said, you may want to consider a secular science book and add in the Christian component. (This is what I'm doing with my younger two students.) Public school texts are designed to reach a broad audience out of necessity.

 

~Yvonne

[Teachin'Mine]

Math is an integral part of their chemistry book, so if you want to do that, I'd look for a more conceptual one. I don't think there's much math in biology, and I would think that if there is, it would be easy enough to just skip that small part. Physical science did have some math, but I think there's enough without it that she would be okay using that text. Even though it's considered an advance science book, Human Anatomy might work for her after biology - probably not much math there either. Or she could do marine biology or some of the others that wouldn't be likely to have much math.

 

On edit: I agree with 8FilltheHeart, conceptual physical science might be better too.

Edited June 19, 2010 by Teachin'Mine
changed "science" to math lol and added

[MyThreeSons]

There's not much math in Biology, but it is intrinsic to both Chemitry and Physics. You might want to look at something like Conceptual Chemistry, Conceptual Physics, or this:

 

http://www.pacworks.com/pages/curriculum.html#_ipc

 

HTH

[8filltheheart]

You might want to look into Hewitt's Conceptual Physical Science and Conceptual Chemistry books b/c they are supposed to be lighter in math.

[8filltheheart]

There's not much math in Biology, but it is intrinsic to both Chemitry and Physics. You might want to look at something like Conceptual Chemistry, Conceptual Physics, or this:

 

http://www.pacworks.com/pages/curriculum.html#_ipc

 

HTH

 

LOL.....we were posting at the same time!

[Granny_Weatherwax]

My DS worked through Apo. Physical Science and there was very little math in it. We are planning on going through Apo. Bio next year. I haven't really looked through the whole text yet to see what kind of math is involved.