I'm pretty hands off with Edhesive, so I don't really know all that's going on. My dd participates on their discussion board, mostly answering other students' questions, but I think there are TAs on that board as well. I had enough programming background to get her started with python, but I know very little of Java, so I leave it up to the class to teach her. Mostly my role is to print out the new worksheets and practice quizzes each week for her to complete. I believe it's self-paced in that if you are behind, you can work through the assignments to catch up. That's what dd#1 did. I'm not sure about working ahead.

Good choice!

My dd started AP CS with Edhesive in January and managed to pull off a 5 on the exam. She's had considerable programming experience with python, however, so all she needed to do was learn the Java idiosyncrasies.

My signature has a link to a bunch of electronics resources.

Take a look at Carnegie Mellon. I'm not really sure how much of a safety it is though.

And essay about overcoming a disease could be the cliche the committee has read a million times before, or it could be fresh and new and wonderful. Find a college counselor (or someone with experience with admissions) who can read the essay and tell you in which category it belongs. If they call it a cliche, I would do as pp's have suggested and put your dd's fantastic writing skills to work on another topic that moves her. It's a shame it has to be that way.

What a great story. Congratulations to your daughter...and you!

I agree, the way they have that set up is misleading. An alternative is to open your own center. I manage one at my public library, and I invite local homeschooling students to join us. MK makes it very easy to do this, and they are homeschool-friendly. Let me know on this thread if you want more details.

I have also had good luck emailing the AP instructors directly. They usually aren't the ones making the decisions about gets to take it, but they do forward my email to the admin who is in charge.

So when I saw the headline of this article about how colleges are addressing so many students being put into remedial classes, I was optimistic. Maybe the high schools will do a better job of preparing students for cc, so they won't need to languish in remedial classes, semester after semester, without making progress on their degree. "So how are so many students once considered ill-prepared suddenly ready for college-level work? New research suggests they likely were ready all along." "Although placement tests send the vast majority of new community college students into remedial English and math classrooms, the study predicted that 61 percent could go straight into college English, passing with a C or better, and that half could pass college math with no additional preparation." "California’s community colleges are soon switching to a statewide placement test and a new system to make it easier for schools to factor in high school grades." This was the problem all along of course. High grades in high school that are meaningless when it comes to competency.

Just FYI, I have found our local public schools to be more receptive than the private ones, so YMMV. I would just begin with the schools closest to you and then go from there.

BTW, I don't think this is a silly question at all. Notation can have a big impact on being able to see and understand what is going on. I also prefer to have my equals signs lined up vertically, because I think that makes solutions easier to read.

I prefer horizontal lines, especially when solving tricky math problems. But I say if he isn't making errors, then there's no need to change. It strikes me as such a simple change in notation that if it does become a problem in the future, he can simply switch to horizontal.

I hear ya, too. Can we reserve a special place in hell for (1) people who text while driving on the freeway and (2) people who crawl along in front of me while approaching a stale green light, then speed up to make it through the yellow, leaving me stopped at the red.

Ooh, I'd never heard of a protractor ruler before! Is it better than a regular protractor? I have so many free cheap rulers, and both my kids have finished geometry and probably will never need a protractor again. Still, I'm tempted.

The Great Backyard Bird Count.

I have a copy of How to Draw Almost Anything, but I haven't used it yet. I totally intend to, and it looks lovely.

We also inherited my dh's old german compass by Staedtler, though what I have linked here is the same brand, it isn't exactly his compass. But it's way better than the cheapo one I bought at the grocery store 30 years ago.

I am fond of green engineering graph paper. We use a lot of paper for math, and I like that it's relatively thin, easily torn off and thrown away. The grid is printed on the back side, so you can use when you need, but it's easy to ignore when you don't. I prefer the 100 sheet pads because they don't fall apart as readily, though they do start to come unglued from the cardboard backing with use. That's the negative. Also, they make me nostalgic for college. I like inky roller ball pens. I am often lazy and can be easily convinced that I can read math without writing, so I want to make writing as pleasant as possible. So I spring for the uniball pen or similar brands.

This sort of happened to me. Valedictorian, 4.0, high test scores. But I was a big fish in a medium sized midwestern city from an underrepresented state. And I was a small fish at my name college. My friends who attended Stuyvesant and Hotchkiss (schools I'd never heard of before college) were amazed that college was less work than high school.

I love the Kon Mari approach to extracurriculars. I hadn't heard that before. I agree it's a real problem because top colleges will not only instruct students to be well-rounded, but also to challenge themselves by taking the most difficult courses at their school. So on another parent list I'm on, I read a post from a mom complaining that her student was taking 6 APs this year because he wanted to attend a name school. Sadly, I don't even think taking so many APs at once will help.

If your student has already taken algebra, and he's taking the AoPS as a stretch for fun, he may just want to do the challenge problems for each chapter. No need to reread everything if he's already mastered the material.

I would add that you redraw all diagrams, very large if you need to. If similar triangles are being shown, redraw each triangle in isolation, side by side, with corresponding angles labeled and oriented the same way. For precision, AoPS describes segment lengths by their endpoints, like AB or XY. And they label angles similarly: <ABC, etc. I often had a difficult time keeping track because in my brain, AB looks entirely different from BA. And <ABC would appear to me to be different from <CBA. To circumvent this, when I redraw the diagrams, I label distances with a single letter, like x, and angles with a small arc and "alpha". It just made it easier for me to keep track of congruences and do algebra on those numbers. Yes, parallel lines can be hard to see sometimes. It helps if you label the congruent interior angles of a transversal to see the "Z."

Then many colleges wouldn't have any qualified applicants. There are too many colleges and already we are seeing some of them fail. This is probably a good thing. Since a college education in general isn't always a marker of an educated person, we strain for admission to name schools because that ostensibly means you met some minimum level achievement.

Thank you! I'm glad to hear of your positive experiences with PAH.