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  1. I answered your other thread about stats, but now that I've read this you probably aren't interested in the Taylor Univ Online stats class. My dd went to a small private college in a science major that would have required calc for lifescience, so she took MUS Pre-Calc as a senior (and actually did part of MUS Calc in her gap year before college). She did fine, and it is pretty light (I actually still have it and would be happy to get it out of my basement if you want it just for the shipping cost!) However, she changed her major to communications and now is taking statistics; she was absolutely dreading having to take calculus so that was a relief to be able to take a different math. At her college, graphic design doesn't require calculus; any math will fulfill the math gen ed. Taking a lighter pre-calc like MUS is a good idea, but I agree that it probably isn't necessary to take pre-calc unless he's aiming for a very selective college. My dd was definitely not a math kid, and now that she's in college I kind of regret putting so much pressure on her about it. The oldest is the guinea pig I guess!
  2. Not sure if this fits what you're looking for, but Taylor University Online has a dual enrollment statistics class. My friend's daughter took it as a junior or senior and had no problems with it and transferred it to Cedarville. https://www.taylor.edu/online/courses/content-areas/science-technology-math My daughter took their intro to psychology as a senior and did well in it. There is no live online teacher in any of their classes, however, in case that matters. I wish I'd had my daughter take that stats class because she's now taking it in college as a gen ed (her major regret is that she didn't take more dual enrollment gen eds, actually). Some benefits of TU dual enrollment classes are that you can start anytime, they are self-paced (within a time limit of 4 months) , and you're the only student "in the class". The only criteria to enroll is to be age 16-19; no standardized test is required. You can call the person listed on this page for more info (I talked to her a couple of times and she was very helpful). https://www.taylor.edu/online/programs-licensures/high-school-students
  3. Thanks for that encouragement. That's what I really WANT to do, but the question is am I ready to commit to not enrolling her next year. Not a lot of great options for outside interaction where I live, and she's my youngest and very extroverted. No good co-ops, only lots of CC campuses (been there with older dd, done that, not going back! ;). There's one other minimally classical hybrid that starts in 7th but it takes a very different approach. She's really into Narnia right now so I might just buy the IEW Narnia Book 1 and do that on the side so she's getting more actual writing instruction, and help her extensively with W&R.
  4. That is a great point. I'm already in my mind not enrolling for next year, but this is my youngest, uber extroverted child who has thrived with outside teachers and friends she can see a few times a week. We enrolled again this year primarily for that reason, so I need to really think about so I don't back into a corner for next year. All my HS friends who have used W&R have only used the first 3-4 books, and are also surprised about trying to jump in at book 5. I'm not sure about the other students in her class struggling or not. I don't really have any contact with any of the other parents. Interesting. That makes me feel better, knowing that your kids had done the previous books and still had issues in book 4. I will probably try to get a hold of books 2-4 and see if I can remediate if I decide to stick it out. She did so great in IEW I think because it was very concrete, explicit instruction. I feel like that's not really what W&R is meant to be.
  5. I posted this on an old thread, but realized it would be better to ask on a new thread.... Looking for W&R Book 5 (Ref/Con) advice: My dd11 goes to a classical 3 day hybrid school that adopted W&R this year (threw out IEW, much to my chagrin). They are starting all 3rd graders in W&R book 1, but then from 4th through 10th grade, are jumping into W&R at different levels. They sold this as "we're going to transition students" but I don't see that happening at all in my daughter's class. They put the 6th graders in Book 5 (will also do Book 6 this year). My daughter is really struggling. I'd hoped the teacher would be making up for skipping books 1-4 with scaffolding of what was taught from book 1, but it seems she is just plowing through the lessons with very little teaching of concepts in the earlier books. My daughter did great with IEW, but is hating and resisting W&R. It feels like the W&R Book 5 assignments are just "write this" with very little instruction, and a whole lot of work book pages. Prior to this she did (successfully) 2 years of IEW Level A (with an online class the first year). The passages that they are asked to narrate or summarize are very long in W&R5, without any instruction on how to do this. I've tried to get dd to use her IEW techniques, but because the teacher isn't asking them to do this, she is resistant. She says she is overwhelmed with how long the stories are and she doesn't know where to start. The teacher says my daughter should have learned outlining and narration from IEW (she has never taught IEW, however). If you've used IEW, you know it doesn't teach traditional outlining, but looking at the W&R TE, it seems to me that they've taught outlining at some point are assuming kids know how to do this. Also, none of the IEW we ever used had much of any narrating (other than tell back your key word outline). Any advice on how to help her? Should I buy one or more of the prior levels of W&R and do some of the work to help her get up to speed? Honestly, I don't like W&R at all myself. This book seems beyond an average 6th grader. After 6 weeks of being underwhelmed by W&R, I'm tempted to pull her out of the class and just teach writing (with something else) at home (which is possible but causes some other logistical issues since it isn't the last class of the day).
  6. This is a slightly old thread, but looking for W&R advice...My dd11 goes to a classical 3 day hybrid school that adopted W&R this year (threw out IEW, much to my chagrin). They put the 6th graders in Book 5 (will also do Book 6 this year). My daughter is really struggling. I'd hoped the teacher would be making up for skipping books 1-4, but it seems she is just plowing through with very little teaching of concepts in the earlier books. My daughter did great with IEW, but is hating W&R. It feels like the W&R Book 5 assignments are just "write this" with very little instruction, and a whole lot of work book pages. Any advice on how to help her? After 6 weeks of being underwhelmed by W&R, I'm tempted to pull her out of the class and just teach writing (with something else) at home (which is possible but causes some other logistical issues since it isn't the last class of the day).
  7. It wasn't clear in your original post whether you are you having your students just read the lesson out of the Saxon books themselves or are you teaching it to them? If you are having them read it and learn on their own, they may need explicit instruction, either from you or from a video teacher like Dr. Shormann in DIVE, Nicole the Math Lady (she has a free 7 day trial), or Saxon Teacher. https://nicolethemathlady.com/ https://diveintomath.com/saxon-math/ https://www.rainbowresource.com/product/045882/Saxon-Math-Homeschool-Teacher-Digital-License-1-Year-Digital-Level-5-4-3rd-Edition.html? Saxon teacher comes on CD or streaming; Rainbow resource sells both. You can try the first 10 lessons of the DIVE videos as a sample (you have to navigate the to the product page for the particular level to find the sample link). Here's the google doc where all the sample course links are located. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UoiIeR1G0Q3F5gh8sz2iaMWIdCyMDALeFLejTZHmJiQ/edit Another thought: I know it is controversial whether or not to do all the problems in Saxon, but I'll add this suggestion from Dr. David Shormann, author of the DIVE teaching videos that go with Saxon (he has taught Saxon to homeschoolers for a long time, and does live classes for high school levels using his high school math program, which is similar to Saxon in format). He recommends that the students do odd problems on odd days of the month, even problems on even days, and you pick 5 problems from the most recent lessons to add to that, as long as the student is getting 80% or above on the weekly tests (so they would be doing 20 mixed practice per day). If the test scores drop below 80%, then you go up in number of practice problems. He also recommends setting a timer, 45 minutes for younger students, and hour for older students, and stopping for the day, even if you haven't finished the lesson.
  8. Is it DIVE or the Saxon book or both? There's also Nicole the Math Lady videos for Saxon https://nicolethemathlady.com/ FWIW, I'm having a similar issue trying to transition my dd9 to Saxon 54 (with DIVE) coming from a different curriculum (BJU). A big part of our problem is how far behind Saxon 54 is starting out from where BJU 3 ended. Having once tried MM years ago, I would venture to guess its even farther behind MM3, so could it be boredom? I'm trying to skip through 54 with testing and looking at the new concept taught each day to make sure dd doesn't have holes, but quite frankly she's pretty close to being able to do Saxon 65, when I look at the placement test. Your dd may be in the same boat. Plus, both BJU and MM are mastery, vs the tight incremental style of Saxon. It is a huge shift, and at first my dd liked it but now, not so much. Not sure we'll stick it out either ( and for sure I won't be able to go 5 weeks like we're going now), Best wishes in finding a solution!
  9. I have dd9 doing Level A year 1 now along with the online class (which is fantastic, btw). My older daughter did the old version of Levels A & B, Student Writing Intensive and Student Continuation Course. The way it worked before (like the previous poster said), and I think still does, is that you do Year one of a level, then year 2, then year 2 of the following levels. Levels B & C add units that aren't in level A, as well as more difficult stylistic techniques. I have only seen the Level A of the new version, but I am relatively sure it will be the same as the SWI and SICC courses were. If you bought the DVD versions, you would be able to easily sell those later and recoup some of your investment (obviously not true if you use the streaming version, which is what I'm doing). I was able to sell my DVD sets of SWI and SICC levels for half of what I paid.
  10. Moderately happy with Algebra 1. Very happy with Geometry. I also required my daughter do all her work on paper (she kept it all in a spiral notebook). After TT Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1, I felt like her understanding was shaky, even though she got an A in both TT courses. I had her repeat Algebra 1 with Derek Owens online Algebra 1, which was a more difficult course (she told me it covered things she did not learn in TT). She then did TT Geometry (DO Geometry uses Jacobs, and it was a no-go for her we realized after a few weeks). Then she did Derek Owens Algebra 2 (TT Algebra 2 included a fair amount of material that had been taught in DO Alg 1). This year she is doing MUS pre-calculus (which she picked, so if it ends up not working out, TT is our fall back). Probably more than you care to know! In retrospect, it probably would have been fine to have her do TT all the way through to pre-calculus without repeating Algebra 1. She could have then done calculus this year as a senior, but she isn't going to be a STEM major so it really doesn't matter. Her ACT math scores were relatively high, despite the fact that she dislikes math.
  11. My daughter is currently taking a dual enrollment class called Into to Psychology through Taylor University (online). She has really enjoyed it and learned a lot. It is completely asynchronous, and self-paced (you do the work online and in communication with the professor over email). You have 4 months to finish from the day you start the course (which is the day after you pay). I would highly recommend it for a student who would like that format. The course is built on an interactive textbook with embedded videos and activities. It is $200/credit hour, so $600 for the 3 credit hour class. There is no application or test score required -- the only criteria is that you must be 16 years old. (Taylor is a Christian university, btw, so there is a Christian element to the class, even though the main textbook is secular). https://www.taylor.edu/online/courses/social-sciences
  12. There are only CD-roms for the 2.0 edition. I'm pretty sure the 1.0 version was CD-ROMs also. They aren't DVDs you can play in your DVD player (they only run on a Windows or MAC computer). My dd did Algebra 1 version 2.0 before the streaming option (version 3.0), and there was a set of 10 CD-ROMs. I think you may be looking at the first edition, 1.0 on Ebay (I just looked myself, and see some 1.0 versions for sale and they include have discs labeled as CDs). I think the version 1.0 wasn't self-grading, but I'm not completely sure. I would recommend the updated edition, 2.0 or 3.0; they made some significant improvements in adding content from 1.0 to 2.0 making it more comparable to other Algebra 1 courses. Also, we liked the the streaming version (which is 3.0) if that works for you; its cheaper, and you can then just buy the big spiral textbook separately if you want it. My daughter used streaming for Geometry and it worked great (however, it does rely on Adobe Flash so I'm not sure what is going to happen when Adobe Flash goes away at the end of the year. Surely they have a plan). Edited to add: I just looked at the Teaching Textbook site and see that they are calling them DVDs. I can't imagine why, unless they have a webpage writer who doesn't know the difference. I also saw on their site that they are launching a 4.0 version, which works on desktop and mobile, and I'm assuming addresses the Adobe Flash Player issue.
  13. My daughter's scores now show up in the ACT system, though we've never received the notification email from ACT that they claim will be sent. So there was a 2 day delay between schools receiving her scores and getting access to the report on ACT's site. Just posting in case anyone else has this happen to them.
  14. I thought of one more curriculum, which we own and my daughter has used as a reference but not actually gone through lesson by lesson: Writing Fiction in High School by Sharon Watson. https://www.christianbook.com/writing-fiction-bringing-stories-student-text/sharon-watson/9781463582081/pd/582081?event=ESRCG
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