SusanAR Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 In all fairness, I wanted to mention that I own the Kolbe Academy solutions manual for Foerster's graphing workbook, and it is very helpful. Kolbe has updated the solutions by giving instructions for using the TI-84. They began selling it last fall. I still get frustrated though :) Susan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in MD Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Hey Susan, Regarding the discussion we've been having, I don't mean to scare you off of Foerster's Precalc with Trig. It is a great course, very challenging for me, but a great course. If the only thing holding you back is the graphing calculator learning curve, I'd probably go for it. For me it was the calculator and having to be prepared to work along side my math strong son. We learn differently and he is very quick....I have to work very hard and was rather intimidated by my fears of not keeping up and not supporting him well. If you can get along with a text as teacher and you can keep up or don't need to, then Foerster is great. If however, some of your concerns are like mine, then I'd say take a good look at Chalkdust. We have only used the Calculus course but I do understand that many people have said on the board here that they don't particularly care for the text books used by Dana Mosely. However, for the calculus course anyway, I do know that my son really only uses it for the problem sets, which have good word problems as well the basic problems. My son mostly relies on Dana's lectures and just uses the text as backup. The text is not the teacher, Dana Mosely is and he's great. I guess the only other thing I'd think about is are you going on to Calculus as home. If you are then it might be good to go for Chalkdust so that you are already in that groove. We had planned to use the CC for Calc, but the timing of the course just didn't work for us, we had a mandatory trip that conflicted with the last week of classes before finals so it became necesary for us to do it at home. So far it has been great and I've been really encouraged by the fact that we CAN do this at home and it's less expensive and less stressful than running to CC classes would be HTH some more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanAR Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Hey Susan, If however, some of your concerns are like mine, then I'd say take a good look at Chalkdust. We have only used the Calculus course but I do understand that many people have said on the board here that they don't particularly care for the text books used by Dana Mosely. However, for the calculus course anyway, I do know that my son really only uses it for the problem sets, which have good word problems as well the basic problems. My son mostly relies on Dana's lectures and just uses the text as backup. The text is not the teacher, Dana Mosely is and he's great. HTH some more Sharon, You didn't scare me; in fact, you've helped. My concerns are like yours- I work to keep up, but I've enjoyed it for the most part, though I am getting weary with it all which is why I'm considering the switch. I've tried CD Algebra I and geometry and disliked the algebra because the lectures and text problem-sets covered so many concepts in one lesson. I had to spend time dividing the problem- sets and lectures into smaller chunks or my dd was overwhelmed. I didn't think the geometry was comprehensive enough. (We ended up using Foerster' alg I and Jacob's geometry) despite the books, we really like Dan Mosley, and I'm willing to give pre-cal a try. Susan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa L. in MI Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Sharon, what do you suggest for learning to use the TI-84+? Ds is planning to use Foerster's Precalc/Trig course. While he's had this graphing calculator for some time now, he's far from mastering it. Thanks, Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in MD Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 1. Download the COMPLETE ti-84 manual from the Ti website. the book that you get with the stupid calculator is virtually worthless :ack2:. Here is the link: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/downloadcenter/SoftwareDetail.do?website=US&tabId=2&appId=6125 Granted that it is a pain the the backside to have to look things up in the index, but it is a real lifesaver at times....not particularly user friendly, but necessary none the less. 2. Here are a couple of good tutorial websites for using and 83 or 84 (they are pretty much them same, think of an 84 as a souped up 83) This one looks promising, but I haven't actually worked through it http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/papers/ti.html This one is helpful, but pretty basic. http://classweb.howardcc.edu/math/calculator/ti83frame.htm Here is the one from Hotmath...it might be Ed Burger of Thinkwell: http://hotmath.com/graphing_calculators/ti84_movie_index.html These are the ones I know of....there are probably loads of others out there. You might want to look on Drexel's Math Forum...they have loads of stuff on more math topics than you can even dream of....even in your worst nightmares!:scared: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa L. in MI Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Sharon, thank you for the links. I downloaded the TI guide. WOW almost 700 pages! Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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