I did think it sounded like it could be a positive thing, until I actually read what's in it. I don't see anything encouraging in math educators being taught that they are perpetuating white supremacy by correcting their students' work, focusing on having them able to do the work independently and answer correctly, and having students show their work.

The author has certain key words/phrases that he refers to over and over again as fundamental to white supremacy culture. One is 'objectivity'--not the suggestion that math is always purely objective, but the idea of objectivity itself. You can see it in the quote in my first post. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity". Some other examples of these key words are 'defensiveness', 'perfectionism', 'fear of open conflict', 'individualism', 'paternalism', 'right to comfort', and 'worship of the written word'.

The Oregon Department of Education is promoting this course for math teachers: https://equitablemath.org/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORED/bulletins/2bfbb9b Quote from 'Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction' download for the course: "White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when... the focus is on getting the “right” answer. The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict." p.65

Thank you both. It's always good to know more about all options.

My little guy is doing a weekly tutoring session on LanguageConvo.com and practicing on duolinguo. It looks like you have lots of great resources here. eta: Whoops, I didn't realize this was an old thread.

This is something I'm stuck on if we need to homeschool next year. My dd11 will be ready for Algebra and does very well with AOPS, but I have heard so much about the intense pace and workload of the online classes, I am concerned it will be too intense for her. But just having her do it from the book with me not consistently available to help as I am taking ds6 back and forth for medical appointments doesn't seem like a good option, either.

My second dd is very bright and grasps the concept side of math well and quickly. She also is dyslexic, possibly (undiagnosed) ADD, and has an extremely slow processing speed. She also hates writing down her work. So in math, she frequently struggles with keeping track of all of the pieces of harder questions. She loves doing Beast Academy Online and learns well with it, but it takes her much longer than most of my other kids and often on the harder sections she struggles unless someone is constantly pushing her to write down her steps, so that each time she loses her line of thought she can look over what she has already done and pick up again from there instead of starting the question over and over again. She is in BA 5, and I am wondering what math to use for prealgebra when she finishes in a few months. I am stuck between wanting something that won't be super boring and easy conceptually for her, and wanting something that she can manage without having someone supporting to keep her on task and doing what she needs to keep track of the pieces. I am concerned that it would be difficult to keep up with the homework load in an online class, since she takes twice as long or more to do the same work. AOPS self-paced is a possibility, but it is very expensive to try out not knowing if she will wind up needing as much of my time as if I were just teaching her from the book. ETA: I stopped typing to help a kid, and my four-year-old came along and posted for me.

This is a spendy option, but I finally signed my dd up for AOPS's self-paced prealgebra. She is loving it, and with the immediate feedback is moving much more quickly through the material than she was when she was just working through the book and alcumus, with me inconsistently available to help. I wish they had a self-paced option for Algebra. ETA: It is not comic booky like the BA guidebooks, and with the way it is built you really can't skip the instruction, as it comes in the form of pointed questions given one at a time that each build on the understanding provided by the last one.

I haven’t done one, but a prior owner of this house did, and got the entire abandoned road (not split with the back neighbor).

I frequently cook recipes from her website, and they are pretty much all amazing. Her bang bang shrimp, pad thai, mexican skillet, chicken tinga, korean beef bowls, hawaiian meatball sandwiches, tom kha gai, smothered burritos, and million dollar penne are some of our favorites. I think the only one I've tried that we've not preferred was the cacio de pepe.

My family loves this recipe: https://carlsbadcravings.com/chili-dijon-pork-tenderloin-recipe/ I always double the veggies and cook it on two sheet pans with half the pork loin on each. (I also double the sauce.)

Neither am I in theory, (at least not in elementary) but sometimes necessity dictates.

Weird question for a homeschooling mom of elementary kids, but does anyone have suggestions for how to get my kids to do their work with the babysitter when I’m not there? I’m currently spending ~four hours on three days a week during school time taking my six-year-old to medical appointments (he has cancer). Since sending the other kids to school isn’t an option right now, I have managed this by paring down school to the bare minimum and spending very long school days on the other two days a week doing most of my direct teaching. This has worked okay. They have shorter school days on the doctor visit days, all subjects they can complete mostly independently with sometimes a little help from the babysitter or a sibling. Especially at first, they very much had an attitude of being willing to pull together to get through this, and (with the exception of one kid) mostly tried to get their independent work done while I was gone. Over a month later, this has worn off and they are back to acting like normal kids who try to get out of work when they can. With the mix of workbooks, apps, and an online math that also has a games option, it’s very difficult for the babysitter to know whether they have actually done what they were supposed to. This has gradually worsened until today only one of the five older kids completed her math. What would you do?

Have you checked your children's beds? I once spent several days searching for my keys for them to turn up under my seven-year-old's pillow.

The only private schools in our area are religious schools, Catholic and another Christian one. Some individuals of other Christian churches have very strong feelings against our denomination. I am hesitant to send my kids into a religious setting on their own if I don’t know how they will be received.

No. They never actually changed the case plan away from reunification, only the case workers were saying they didn't think bio mom was going to make it, and asking if we were interested adoption/guardianship if they were right.

I'm stumped, too. I'd like to send them to the charter across the river, but we can't afford the out-of-state fees and it is unlikely that we will be able to find a place we can afford to move to there. The horrible public schools on this side are an option, if they are fully open. If the hospital & doctors go back to letting siblings come with for appointments, homeschooling is still a viable option. (It is looking likely that my foster girls will be reunified before then, so this would be three older siblings doing schoolwork in waiting rooms, not five and a little). I think that is probably unlikely to happen. Trying to continue homeschooling kids left at home around the travel and cancer treatments and therapy activities is something I would really prefer to avoid, as it is just about killing me now.

I haven’t the foggiest. I have been focusing on just one step ahead at a time, getting through one day, one week. But it’s looming in the background. What do we do for next year? It is looking likely that our foster girls will return to their bio mom before then, so I will only have four kids to manage. But seeing the work of our local public school system’s education up close and personal while remediating my foster daughters has made me much more averse to putting our kids into their hands. At the same time, I don’t know if what I could offer while also juggling the cancer treatments would be much better. We’re getting along in the core subjects right now out of sheer necessity, but we’re only hitting core subjects. I wish there were some way to put them into the classical charter school across the river, but we just can’t afford to move right now.

Dh and I have been in disagreement on our financial priorities for the next few months, so we sat down with a dry erase board and wrote out roughly how much we expect to be getting in additional stimulus plus tax return money, listed the various uses either of us would like to put those funds to, priced them out, and came to an agreement. I feel like it was a great way to deal with it. It was easier to see the opportunity cost of each choice, it wound up clarifying some non-financial plans for us as well, and my dh had a great idea I hadn’t thought of. I am very satisfied with our compromise.

I saw an article that said Biden is going to ask that this be applied to “the year” on an emergency basis. Not entirely sure, but “the year” has to mean 2021, not 2020, right? That is insane, and so clearly just buying votes. There’s not even a pretense of it being about need. My family of nine lives comfortably on significantly less than that per month.

I got the medication refill called in, but haven’t picked it up from the pharmacy yet. It’s about 2 inches in diameter.

I have a bump on the back of my head, right where it meets my neck, on the left side. Three or four days ago I noticed that spot was tender, and the next day there was a bump like what you would expect as a goose egg from getting hit by something. It aches, and hurts more with pressure, but not a sharp pain. It has not improved since it first appeared a few days ago. I suspect it may have something to do with psoriasis on my scalp that I had run out of the medication for prior to this, and been slow to take care of in the flurry of taking care of my son’s medical needs. Have you ever heard of something like this? If I go to a general practitioner, are they going to send me on to some specialist that I could just save time by going to directly?

Today is a home day, so it’s a long one. Breakfast and start day, hair done, etc. school time, including daily work plus half a week’s worth of language arts, taught in two groups to my upper and lower elementary kids, plus checking up on all of my oldest’s work for her online classes and going over her math with her, (I found yesterday she has been being dishonest with me about having completed school work) It turns out she is three sections behind in alcumus and has a class assignment due by tomorrow morning, when she told me she had completed all her work for that class for the week. <sigh> I know it’s a classic blunder, relying too much on a middle schooler’s maturity and independence. But I fell into it anyway. getting in reading a little history with them, probably while they are eating Ri’s stretching and exercises four times throughout the day Ri’s scar massage and yoga with all the kids together laundry tidy up the living room figure out and prepare dinner—I was planning on chili, but my wonderful mom who is here helping for the week made a big pot of chili for tomorrow’s dinner while she was watching the kids yesterday, so I need to figure out what else I can make from the ingredients I have on hand, because I don’t think I can fit in picking anything else up older foster girls’ visitation by zoom call littlest’s speech therapy in town sister missionaries coming by to visit get at least six of the end-of-semester work samples submitted for our charter school

So then why did the dr. want to see him as soon as possible? Just to tell him he has low-ish blood sugar? That seems odd.

How do you find this sort of thing?