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I use Turbo Tax. Having a CPA do it just adds a layer of complexity that I'm not interested in dealing with. ETA: Our taxes are complex.
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Have you seen the Big History Project? It gives a nice overview of time from the big bang to present.
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I would have had no problem letting my kids stay home at that age. That said, I also wouldn't have expected them to do their schoolwork during that time.
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For this sort of thing, calling is going to be better than email or chat or any other text based communication system.
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Typically developing teen. Age 15. Operate all large appliances in the house (washer, dryer, oven, microwave, stove, dishwasher) Do own laundry including sheets Prepare meals for self Learning to prepare meals for family (if not already there) Learning to drive Clean room Keep room reasonably tidy Know how to do a large subset of household chores (vacuuming, gardening, trash, pet care, etc.) Do homework independently Manage school materials Manage self appropriately in new/uncertain/difficult situations Deal with a reasonable amount of personal discomfort without a fuss Walk/ride bike/skateboard in a safe manner following the rules of the road I'm sure there are more that I've forgotten.
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To be clear, my idea of letting a kid "figure it out" is not anticipating their every struggle and drilling them on the solution beforehand. In the locker situation, I would expect my kid to manage on his own in the sense that he wouldn't freak out he couldn't figure it out right away. He might ask the kid next to him. He might spend some time fiddling with the lock after school. He might ask me when he got home. I might say "Oh yeah, that can be tricky at first. Here is what I remember about it." That said, I was a very hands on homeschooler. I never handed either of my kids a textbook, for example, and told them to go for it. Just because a professional says something like this doesn't mean it's true. There is a lot of pathologizing of behavior these days that isn't actually pathological. If you were a Gen Xer, hands off parenting was par for the course.
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I didn't feel this was the case but YMMV.
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What I don’t like about Jacob‘s third edition is that there’s not enough scaffolding for the proof assignments. The second addition has a lot of proofs included that are seemingly trivial to someone who knows what they’re doing, but actually like training wheels for students, which I found helpful for my son. I think adding those in while doing Derek Owens if it becomes necessary would probably be enough for a strong math student. I don’t know what teaching Euclidian geometry the right way means. If it means using Euclid in the original, then I would call that the wrong way, having studied Euclid recently. If you just mean that the course is proof-based then, yes, that’s the right way. Derek Owens does this. And the great thing is is that he also grades the proofs. This can be a problem if you’re not well-versed in geometry yourself.
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One way to figure out the locker thing is to consult with an upperclassman. No mommy necessary. The coddling that is becoming normative these days is truly ridiculous.
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People don’t expect their kids to be able to figure this stuff out on their own? I’m honestly stunned.
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Definite recipe for cheating.
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I think they should be allowed to have them but they need to stay in the pocket or backpack during class.
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I am in an online program where exams are not proctored. When I started in calculus in my program 3.5 years ago, I was struggling with making silly errors. I mentioned this in a TA led discussion and the TA told me that we were allowed to use a CAS enabled calculator on exams (and at all other times). Being able to check my work this way was amazing, and it actually allowed me to tighten up my computation considerably. But it was never generally announced in classes that this sort of calculator was acceptable and it certainly wasn't announced that this sort of calculator could make a huge difference. While some classes had you show all of your work on exams, most only had you and in work for a few problems. So, potentially, a student could get the answers for all of the problems where work wasn't shown using the calculator. In fact, this is what the TA I mentioned above suggested people do. Which is ridiculous. I decided that I would always try all problems by hand first and use the calculator to check the solution. That policy has served me well. I actually asked about this sort of calculator use at a math club meeting when several of the faculty were in attendance--including the department chair. The chair's response was "that's just computation." I took that to mean however you do it is fine. So is the above cheating? If we replace CAS enabled calculator with an online calculator, is it cheating? Where do you draw the line? And then there are bigger questions like what is the purpose of preventing cheating? What is the purpose of a college education? If you cheat your way through college, who is being harmed and how?
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Has anyone else had issues with paying medical bills with online bill pay?
EKS replied to Bambam's topic in The Chat Board
A check like that wouldn’t have the stub from the provider that goes with payment, isn’t that correct? Perhaps that’s why the payments aren’t being recorded properly. -
Just leaving this here: π ≠ 3.14. That is all.
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I think that if schools are going to be test optional they should also be grades optional. I was a beneficiary of what was essentially a grades optional policy at the University of California back in the day. If you scored at a certain level on the SAT and two subject tests (or maybe it was three), you could get in even if your high school grades were abysmal. I went on to be successful student in a challenging major. Now UC won't look at test scores at all, against the recommendation of their own committee. It's ridiculous. I also think we should stop thinking about admission to a particular college as being a reward for hard work. It should be about who is going to be a good fit with the college's intellectual community, who will actually contribute something meaningful. Hard work is only part of the equation, and perhaps not the most important part. I'm saying this as a person who has just spent three years working very hard to get a math degree. That I have had to work as hard as I have to do well is honestly a sign that I don't belong at a top school (and I am not at a top school). But looking at my transcript you wouldn't know this. You'd just see a string of A+s.
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Is the song “Moving to the Country Gonna Eat a Lot of Peaches” a metaphor?
EKS replied to Terabith's topic in The Chat Board
Doesn't that originally come from the blow up your TV song? -
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Thank goodness. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/standarized-testing-requirements-act-sat/677667/
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Is this a typical high school history class?
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I can now stop worrying. Everyone got back to me. Thank you both for your input!
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We loved our 2010 Outback and only recently got rid of it. That said, I've heard that the transmissions can be iffy after 100,000 miles (I don't know which transmissions or if this is even true, but there it is). My mother has a 2011 Outback that has a sunroof leak (not good in the Pacific Northwest) that the dealer was unable to fix. Other than that, she loves it and wants to get another one. Preferably as soon as possible so that she can stay dry.
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Just getting my son to go to the eye doctor was challenging. I'm not sure I could get him to commit to VT. I do think this might explain why he stopped reading for pleasure about 10 years ago.
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Canvas messaging is the norm for enrolled students. I am enrolled but not enrolled in classes with either of them at the moment. Both of them were good about responding to Canvas messages within a few days. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, that's not true. One of them sometimes needed a second nudge. There has also been an email change that I don't think effects their email addresses, but that might be another reason to try the Canvas route. With regard to how much communication there usually is. Professors will usually have a live office hour (singular) once a week. And they sometimes participate in the online discussion forum. Other than that it is just via Canvas messaging if you have a question. Weirdly, I've had more interaction with my professors in these classes than I ever did as a traditional undergrad back in the 1980s.