What's your thought on the WTM Rhetoric writing course and the AOPS Rhetoric writing course? How effective are they? Are the content conservative/Christian friendly or at least neutral?

What's your thought on the WTM Public Speaking course and the AOPS Writing Camp 7-8: Mock Trial course? How effective are they? Are the content conservative/Christian friendly or at least neutral?

The AOPS Are You Ready tests are known to be much easier than the actual courses though.

Do you mean the AOPS online Intro to Physics course? Kiddo just completed it. It was easy and lots of fun. You had to do some experiments and recorded them. Mine has a box of physics tools from HST but you can just use items from around the house. Some experiments are virtual/interactive. I heard it is a big jump from this course to Intro to Mechanics (AP course) though.

I have been looking for one too, online HS level classes, rhetoric logic & deduction/induction logic, unbiased. I have several traditional logic and informal logic books but cannot find a way to teach it.

I fell for a similar trap but with reading. I attempted to have mine read Matilda & Harry Potter at 6yo. He hated reading. It turned out his decoding was very uneven with his comprehension skill, and jumping into hard books too early discouraged him from reading all together. He still only likes comics books. I would say expose your kids to as many things as you can and let them follow their interests. Their interests may change over time too.

As a homeschooler, you create the transcript and diploma yourself. You don't need to attend an accredited school. If you plan to send them back to public high school later, it is the high school's case-by-case choice whether to accept those credits or not. Regarding AOPS, you can teach them yourself with the books, or take their text-based online classes, or their in-person/virtual academy classes. The text-based classes are the cheapest, text only, no audio, no face time, very fast pace, has proof-based problems but no final exams. The virtual academy classes are like zoom classes The in-person academy is slower, spreading through the entire school year, has final exams but no proof-based problems All of those classes have letter-grade report at the end for your transcript.

Beast Academy.

It's impossible, at least for me, to find a First or Vex robotics team outside of public schools though.

Art of Problem Solving. It's deep and challenging.

I have been using Classical Writing-Homer. I have the main book, student workbook and teacher guide. It's hard to teach from it lesson by lesson. I went back and forth making my own lesson outlines . But there's just too much to do for my kid who struggles with attention. So I use it now only for the summary by scene and the 6-sentence shuffle.

According to Lewelma's post from long ago, the best curriculum for Invention (generating original ideas) is Lost Tools of Writing. Is it still the case? I kept re-reading the samples but cannot wrap myself how to teach it.

My kid likes Typing Tournament. It's $17/year using groupbuy. It'game based.

Yes AOPS offers an online Intro to Physics but from what I understand, it's a pre-Physics class. Then there is an on-campus Intro to Mechanics but it only covers Newtonian mechanics. Thanks everyone. I'll look into the recommendation and the pinned threads. How do I get to the pinned threads again?

Did anybody take a good interactive/simulation personal finance class that they like, that are not Dave Ramsey? Having background in finance, I found a lot of Dave Ramsey's financial advices frown upon. My only option right now is to to teach my kid using my college finance textbooks. Has anyone tried GoVenture Life & Money simulation game and is it worth the price?

We use AOPS online classes for maths and like it. But we are still looking for similarly rigorous physics & chemistry classes. It needs to be conceptual & math-based, sequencing from algebra-based to calculus-based, have comprehensive and detailed explanation labs. Does anybody have any recommendation?

I tried out some EIW videos briefly. Pros: the videos are short and precise. It's less teacher involved. There is also an optional scoring service. Cons: the lessons sound good in theory, but I just can never apply them to teaching my kid how to write.

Is there such thing as a self-paced interactive Spanish learning software, with built-in videos & games that teach vocabulary, grammar, and speaking? What would you suggest for something close to that for a 9-year-old? I need something more structured and not some random quiz, something like Song School Spanish/Spanish for Kids but online and less teacher intensive.

BA is a complete and strong program. However my son prefers AOPS (the upper level of BA) more because it's more straightforward, fewer distractions, less puzzle-style🤷.

Anybody?

Saxon math, Teching textbook, Videotext have DVD's. Thinkwell and AOPS have online videos with subscription.

Hi, CW Homer briefly mentioned about finding synonyms using Aristotle's 10 categories, but without explaining how. I know what Aristotle's 10 categories are, but can somebody show me how to do the word copia based on those categories please? TIA.

Sorry for resurrecting an old post, but where do I find the instructions for finding synonyms using Aristotle's ten categories? I know what those 10 categories are. TIA.

I know it is an old post, but where in Homer does it talk about Aristotle's Ten Categories? I know it briefly mentioned about finding synonym using those categories in day 2 skill 2, but how?

Lost Tools of Writing.