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  1. I have a source for this as well. The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy and the Religion-Science Divide by Michael Hobart. If you do read this, don't miss the appendices which are full of fun mathematical/historical bits.
  2. I have a resource for this. Try: Perspective and Projective Geometry
  3. I also am in awe of the research of @turkeypotpie. Well done, and good luck!
  4. OMG, if I could buy their IP and just put the site back up. The class pretty much ran itself.
  5. I would not characterize adjunct faculty as "lazy." Underpaid and abused is more like it. If I were an adjunct, I would not do anything above my contracted requirements.
  6. Both were at edhesive, which sadly is no longer available to homeschoolers. I do still have the materials for AP statistics; if you DM me I'll send you a link. The loss of edhesive is such a shame.
  7. I'm often in the awkward position of defending the College Board, an organization that is problematic to be sure. But in the absence of any other standardization of American education, I'm glad to have AP classes filling the gap. And in the core courses they do a pretty good job, IMO. Does anyone disagree with the substance of the syllabi for AP chem, bio, physics C, calculus, APUSH or English? Does anyone disagree with the format of the exams (multiple choice and free response)? I'm not sure how I feel about DE in the public schools, but it sounds like it's becoming a bigger part of students' experience? What classes are students typically taking at CC? Is it vocational, advanced math, or remediation? Any why aren't public school teachers teaching these classes?
  8. For a non-Western approach to education, I can recommend Cultural Foundations of Learning: East and West by Jin Li. Despite the awkward title, it is actually an entertaining read. And Jin Li is actually an education professor that I do recommend, lol.
  9. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers Re: math education, I can recommend books by Hung-Hsi Wu: Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics Teaching School Mathematics: Pre-Algebra Teaching School Mathematics: Algebra Dr. Wu is an emeritus professor of mathematics (NOT mathematics education) at UC Berkeley. He wrote these books for teacher training and professional development, though I have no idea how widely used they are, if they are used at all. I'm reading Understanding Numbers now, and I think it's perfect for the parent who never had a solid understanding of elementary math (fractions, etc.). It's a textbook and not an easy read, but well worth the effort if you require remediation. I consider myself to be reasonably strong in math, but i so wish I had read his work on teaching fractions. I would be wary of any education books--about math or any other topic--written by education professors.
  10. I don't have much to add, and I suppose I should probably backtrack since we didn't take any CC classes, so it's difficult to compare. But from my perspective, my daughter did not have an "insane" schedule. It just seemed reasonable for a high school level class. A fair bit of homework, but not too much and not so much that it interfered with ECs and her social life. She loved her teachers. Specifically I can say that AP CS A and AP Stats are low content and easy-peasy, and I'm guessing way easier than anything you'll find in college. My other daughter basically started her online AP statistics class in February and earned her 5 three months later. There just isn't that much to learn. I think AP CS A is a great first AP, since it's really easy and low-content, and does a good job of dispelling the myth that these are truly college level courses. They are not. From my perspective, I didn't need to worry about registration or waitlists or commutes or parking. And some of the high school students she met online she kept in touch with in college. We were such frequent fliers, she even attended the PAH end of year party in Pennsylvania a couple of years in a row.
  11. Indeed. My high school dd did not want to take college classes on a campus with adults. She loved the convenience of AP online classes in her pajamas without the commute. She was also reassured knowing that she was taking the same high school classes that other students were taking. And so much less time and work than a CC class. From grades 8 - 12 she took the following APs: CS A, Chem, Bio, APUSH, Calc BC, Stats, Physics C (Mech and EM), English. Fives in everything, and it's a known quantity for college admissions. But this was all before the pandemic. Your first concern should be accessibility for the exams.
  12. Another vote for calculus in high school. Has your student taken geometry? If not, would substitute that in place of statistics.
  13. We tried to mimic--to the extent that it made sense--the school profiles of neighboring schools and schools we admired. You can google <school name> profile to find them. One main difference is we neglected all the fancy formatting you'll see in some of these documents: TJ High School Hockaday Contents: Name of our school, purpose and location School philosophy Brief summary of educational partners Brief description of ECs Academic and professional background of parents Brief demographic background of our town and locally zoned public high school Graduation requirements for our homeschool Grading Scale Detailed list of educational partners with descriptions of each This should vary (ETA:) NOT very much if at all for different students.
  14. I agree with this and @stripe's suggestions for other math. To that I might add a regular go at a math contest like an AMC 8 which are freely available here.
  15. Mine ran 3 full pages, but now I'm thinking WTH? In hindsight it was still easy to read because it was broken up into parts, with a headline that was a quote from a teacher, a boss, a parent of a friend. You'll want to balance the goal of including everything you want to say against the goal of making it easy to read. I'm not sure how well we did frankly, at 3 pages. I do know that between my husband and I, the document went through many many revisions all summer long.
  16. I haven't read this article closely, but you may find good info about the math section here: https://mathchops.substack.com/p/adaptive-digital-sat-math-deep-dive
  17. I'm not sure if your dd enjoys electronics, but she might enjoy working through this textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Platt/dp/0596153740 Does she already know python? That is practically a prerequisite for life nowadays. She can also learn how to program an arduino as an elective class. We did a fair amount of that in middle and high school.
  18. I re-read your original post and reminded myself of the ham radio license. I got my license a few years ago (bucket list) but never got an actual radio. I have no idea how to broadcast, lol.
  19. If it helps, dd skipped algebra physics, and took this high school science sequence: 9th: AP chem 10th: AP bio 11th: AP physics (mech and e&m) 12th: modern physics She's graduating this year from the selective school I believe you are referring to (Stanford?) with a human biology major and a CS minor. She does things like scrape Reddit threads to track misinformation about women's health. All the APs were online, she earned 5's on all the exams. It was easier before the pandemic to find exam sites. You'll want to check with places like Legend College Prep and SIL and other places right at the start of next school year if you need a place to take an AP exam.
  20. It's not everyday I see "pluripotent stem cell" used metaphorically. Well played. If you are looking at selective admissions with an eye toward a holistic education, I can recommend "How to be a High School Superstar" by Cal Newport and his blog for some ideas. And since you mentioned computational linguistics, I want to alert you to NACLO; it's a lot of fun.
  21. A little off topic, but I came across a NY Times inteview of graduates and their regrets about college: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/27/opinion/college-choice-regrets.html In particular I was moved by the first interview with the math major: "When I was applying to college, there was a news article about the best colleges that were outside the Ivy League. Skidmore was one of the “new Ivies” in the article. I liked Skidmore when I visited. It seemed to be strong academically, and it was a small school, which I thought would be uniformly better than a large school. It wasn’t until I went to graduate school and worked at several universities that I realized Skidmore had left me severely underprepared. I still feel like I’m catching up. There were some pretty big holes in my mathematics major. People I know who studied math at other schools took twice as many courses as I took in mathematics, because I was filling my credits with liberal arts classes. When I was 17, I thought well-roundedness was really attainable only at a small liberal arts school. If I could go back in time, I would have gone to a medium or larger school and tried to make the well-rounded thing happen on my own." Benjamin Boniece Mr. Boniece is a postdoctoral researcher. He attended Skidmore College from 2007 to 2011. Not exactly what Skidmore had in mind for an article in the NY Times. Also, it really contradicts the notion that "Where you go is not who you'll be." Maybe not, but it can have an impact.
  22. A mixed bag indeed. I did not have my kids take AP HUG or World because those are low value courses. One kid took AP stats with edhesive, basically started the class in March and earned her 5 on the exam 3 months later. I think the meta learning here is always check the WTM board for reviews before signing up for a class. The well-informed parents here saved us a lot of heartache. Edhesive is defunct now--oh the irony--but I still have course materials if anyone wants to DM me.
  23. I wonder which PAH classes @JennaH took? I know the quality of PAH classes is a mixed bag, but with a little research on these boards, we were able to extract great value from them, and are grateful for their classes.
  24. There's a Quora discussion about choosing a great teacher over an interesting course. I would not miss an opportunity to choose a great teacher, and I would regret not having that experience. And I think a double-dose of US history can be spun this way in the "Additional Information" or "Is there anything else we should know?" part of the application. What's so wrong with a little extra US history?
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