You're amazing Jane! :001_smile: DD knows more about software than hardware but she is interested in both. She's also got the basics of web design down. She's got a collection of computers people have given to her in her bedroom which I don't quite get... :D She owns more computers/laptops than the rest of the household put together. We've bought her 'Networking for Dummies' but I'm not sure if she'll be able to work through it without ordering some parts (yes, I'm not the most technical person!) as she worked through 'HTML for Dummies' when she was a kid by skipping the boring parts and testing the actual coding until she worked it out. She's like a typical man - never mind the instruction booklet! :lol: I told DD about Make magazine so guess what she's doing tommorow? :D Do you also happen to know if it's actually possible for someone to want to be a computer scientist and actually hate ordinary science? It's driving me crazy!

My DD is interested in computer science so we're not really sure where to start looking. Could you suggest anything Jane? :)

Thank you Carmen! I really appreciate it as well as Rionne! :D

You could also try getting hold of the College Board blue book & having her take a practice SAT test. It'll give you an idea of whether she could get some merit aid in future. She sounds like a very bright girl though. ;)

The writing portion tests grammar & asks you to write an essay. Most people's tips on the essay is to fill all of the space, and examples can be personal experiences and they can be complete lies - how's the person reading it going to know, after all? A lot of people choose to remember a few examples they could fit into pretty much any prompt. That's all I can say to help. :) Good luck to your DD!

Are you sure she doesn't understand grammar? If she's getting every question right then she has a good grasp of it. It may just be the terminology she doesn't know. :)

A few years ago my DD found out Whitmore Publishing will publish writers under 18 & I think they ask for a 120 page minimum. Don't know if that's any help Misty. :)

Somewhere towards the back of the WTM book under transcripts or something it's listed as World History I & II, Gov't and something else I think. :)

I think the writing element depends on what you see your daughter doing after high school. Will she go to college or into a career that she'll need to write certain types of papers a lot? I think writing just for the sake of writing is pointless so it should be linked to their other subjects. The same goes for being heavier in lit, history, etc rather than math & science. It depends where you see her going in life & what skills she would need for that. My daughter is undecided on what she wants to do but it could involve a potentially science-y area despite the fact that she has difficulty with it so we're trying to get the basics of bio, chem & physics down first then we can go back and get further in depth if we have time which I think we will. Excuse any typos, errors & the general disorganization of this. I'm tired. :D

Is there something that specifically says ignore the order of operations for this part, or has only part of the order of operations been covered & they're not expecting the student to know the rest of it & so working without it...? Other than that I agree that it's a little odd. :001_huh:

To avoid skipping material and missing out though, you could use chapter tests if you have them (or give him the most difficult questions of each topic as your own chapter test) to have him test out of material he knows. At least then you know he has mastered all of the material and I'd tell him if he proves he can do the material he can move on from it, so he doesn't make the careless mistakes. I don't know if that's any more help to you. :) Edit: And you can be sure many, many people have crossed that bridge! Even search through older threads on this board & you'll find others have had the same problem. You might some other solutions too so definately check back through old threads.

My DD has always done this. She tells me she does it when she knows the material and knows she doesn't need to concentrate on it so she doesn't. :D I don't know either of the programs you're using but could you cut down on the number of problems and if he gets them right, he doesn't have to go over them anymore if skipping ahead isn't something you want to do?

I agree about resuming piano & trying web design. It's something he could keep up long term too - getting into different types of web design, graphics - that kind of thing. You'd think I knew what I was talking about but I don't. DD loves this kind of thing. She recommends, if he's into coding himself rather than using a program to do it, that he starts with HTML, then CSS and continue from there. There's also free graphics programs available instead of photoshop which is quite expensive unless you can find a copy on ebay or whatever. GIMP is a good idea for graphics and is free. You can also try and find an older copy of photoshop. If he's into games he could learn how to make his own, too. He could run a fansite too. Does he have any interests in particular besides what you have already mentioned? I hope this was of some use to you. (:

This was roughly my DD's schedule when she was in school for year 8: Four hours of english, four of maths, two of science, two of history, two of french, two of PE, one of RS, one of art/drama, one of music, two of technology, two of geography & one of ICT.

Thank you both for the replies. I love how you don't get judged on this board. She's done some Algebra before so she's getting through that quickly. Geometry might be a single whole year course since she's never done it before, but then it might not... you both know how unpredictable these things are. :D She wants to take at least one SAT 2 in math alongside the SAT so hopefully, that'll help validate it and she'll also have A-Level math results by the time she applies. She might not have any outside verification other than test scores though... do you think that'll be a problem? We're not in the US, otherwise she'd probably be doing CC courses instead. She'd love that, but not possible. We don't have anything similar over here though. ):

Algebra's really clicking with my DD more than it ever has in school but I have a problem... she's going too fast. We already have the books for algebra 1 & 2 and geometry is on it's way but when it comes to transcripts - what do we do?! She's on schedule to finish both algebra 1 & 2 this year. She's rewording the chapter reviews just before the tests into her own words and writing them down (suprisingly neatly :D) and is doing well in it grade-wise so it shouldn't be causing a problem but she doesn't want to be held back at all and I don't want to hold her back... help? :confused:

:iagree: wait a couple of years and decide then. If you & your DD decide that it's still the best idea then she can take a PG year or a gap year and then she's not being held back in any way.

Miss KNG - I couldn't agree more! My DD doesn't have a 'bedtime' though but she has to go to her room when we go to ours. She's free to stay up longer as long as she doesn't wake anyone else in the house up but she normally does her math any time after we've gone to bed - I'm a morning person so I'll never understand that. :D She does work better at night, definately but she managed to get through biology at 5.30 in the morning a couple of days ago but she was tired for the rest of the day after being up so early, even though she was asleep early too so night time is her 'energy time' too. Nan in Mass - Thank you for that. :) DD isn't really very interested in music/art but as I said, we've picked up the foreign languages and as you mentioned gymnastics we're considering some sort of activity whether it's in the house or out of. If only they'd let kids into the swimming baths when everyone else is in school in our area... melmichigan - how old is your DD? She sounds so like mine :lol: 'Cept it was throwing a textbook at the wall last time. Oh the joys of that biology textbook... LittleIzumi; yeah, although your DD is only little I can see patterns with what my DD is like. Feeling overwhelmed is probably a big part of it.

Sorry I didn't reply for a while. Momofjae - it's on the NAGC site in the parents section under 'levels of giftedness'. (: After languages were mentioned I talked with DD about languages and such and she's now got the russian alphabet written on her bedroom wall and has a vocab book on the way. We met someone who spoke french a couple of days ago and they spoke english too and DD found she'd learnt more than she thought in school and was able to pick out main words even when she didn't understand the whole sentence. The woman wasn't natively french though so DD's worried about 'accent problems' but she was encouraged by that and is working on french vocab too. Thank you so much for your help! It seems DD's found her challenge in languages too. :001_smile: She's had a couple of days in tears over biology (not a 'science person' as I mentioned) but finally got herself past the first page of biology yesterday (yes, it's been that much of a problem xD). So another huge thank you to you all!

I'm interested in it too, but my DD has probably read more books on it than me. She's thinking about majoring in elementary education so she loves reading about it. :D She knows everything about TWTM too and agrees with that philosophy above most others and she'd definately be starting a classical school too if she had the money.

I was just wondering if anyone's tried the MENSA home test and if it was at all indicative of your/your DCs actual score? DD finished it earlier and commented how easy it was. She had more difficult sitting still for that long than anything (that's what being homeschooled and able to move about does I suppose xD) and we're considering sending it off to be scored but wanted to know if it's worth the money first. Thank you hivers. (:

We're only english-speakers too. We'd read that it meant a letter was hard/soft but had no clue what they meant. She now has the russian alphabet written on her bedroom wall (I encourage creativity, what can I say?) and is working on being able to pronounce all the letters and now we're wondering where to go after that... We were considering getting this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Thousand-Words-Russian-Heather/dp/0746064764/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256493014&sr=8-3 So building up her vocabulary first, then moving on to a full program. Is that a good idea or should we just jump right in? Or should I say should she - I'm not a language person? :lol: I'm also really sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Getting waaaay behind.

Thanks for that Jann! We've found there's just enough, pushing too many problems so that's definately not a problem but do you think it'd be okay to do just the odd problems for chapter reviews? Do you have any idea when your DC started to slow down as well? :)

Thanks for that Jann! I really appreciate it. (: DD only got half the questions done yesterday as she was ill but today she's finished yesterdays work and done all of todays - what chapter should she be starting to slow down, do you think? (: Also, the chapter review - only the odd answers are in the back of the book - do you work out the answers yourself to grade?

Hello! Just wondering how everyone else schedules Lial's algebra? We have the Beginning & Intermediate Algebra book (3rd Ed.) and DD finished an entire sub-chapter today. I don't think she'll get through that much every day but she flew through it. Just wondering how you all organise it? (: