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Foerster's Algebra & Trigonometry DVD's
Laura in CA replied to Michelle in AL's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
We plan to start Foerster's Algebra II in August & this looks like a fabulous resource! We have the Thinkwell lectures, which my kids enjoy, but they aren't keyed to the Foerster's text, so would be more of a supplement. I really appreciate your posting these links! ~Laura -
my son will turn 13 this summer, and he'll be taking English I next year. I think there will be plenty of kids his age in the class, based on our experience (i.e., I don't think he'll feel too old for the class!). I agree, the classes above English III look pretty serious! Glad I could help!
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I don't know if you are thinking of English, math, science, etc. . . . our experience is with English. We put my 7th-grade son in their Writers' Workshop class, and next year he'll take English I (luckily renamed that from "Grade 7 English," since he'll be in 8th grade -- not so bad now, but I was wondering how "Grade 9 English" would look on his transcript as a 10th grader! But it's a good fit for him, and in fact they renamed the three basic English classes (taking out the grade designations) to encourage parents to enroll their kids by ability, not age. And the Writer's Workshop class is designed for 6th graders, but there's a pretty wide range of kids in the class -- I'd say 11, 12, 13 yo. My other son is taking a programming class in their jr hi section, and the kids range in age from 11 to 15. HTH, Laura
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X-Post Do you or your children like poetry?
Laura in CA replied to Luanne's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
The Hunting of the Snark. They think it's hysterical (they're 11 & 12). Also "A-Sitting on a Gate" from "Through the Looking Glass." (Links are http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll/lewis/snark/index.html & http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~nicholson/alice.html) I'm eager to move on to Tennyson, Byron, etc. (I love poetry!), but since they're young yet, for now I'm just glad they think poetry is fun. You might check out A E Housman's "Oh, When I Was in Love with You" http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/alfrededwardhousman/poems/ashropshirelad/ohwheniwasinlovewithyou.html The Lewis Carroll poems may not appeal to everyone! Maybe we have a silly streak :) -
Scholars Online?
Laura in CA replied to Jenny in Atl's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
Thanks for the information! It's very helpful. ~Laura -
Scholars Online?
Laura in CA replied to Jenny in Atl's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
Is there an audio component, or is it all text? (We've been doing Potter's School this year and you can hear the teacher and see his or her computer screen as s/he talks.) I'm interested in some SOL classes and am wondering how they are run. Thanks for any info! ~Laura -
Jacobs Geometry - confused about proofs
Laura in CA replied to Frances's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
I first saw that quote from Jacobs on the Ask Dr Callahan website, where Dr Callahan explains why he didn't make a syllabus for the second edition (as he was asked to do and was originally planning to). There are a few "original proofs" in the 3rd edition -- for example, in Chapter 12, Section 3, questions 43-47 are five proofs where you are not given any statements, just the "given" and what you're to prove. There may be some others; we just finished that chapter so I remember it. The 3rd edition has worked fine for my kids (who are a bit young -- 11 & 12). I'm just thinking aloud here, but if you wanted more proofs and were using the 3rd edition, you could use the set from the publisher (which I printed out but haven't used yet LOL) and couldn't you use the proofs in the book where the child is led through them with the statements supplied, but just not have your kids look at the statements? Cover them up with a Post-It note or something? Hmmm . . . like I said, I'm just thinking out loud. Looking at a proof in the same problem set, Ch. 12, Sec. 3, questions 8-13, I know I wouldn't have had a clue about where to start. Never would've thought of drawing those four radii :-) (Maybe that comes with practice? Or, I suspect these are harder proofs that wouldn't be obvious without some clues. Maybe give the kids the first step?) I did get the second edition used, but decided to go with the 3rd edition and haven't regretted it. -
My great-grandfather was a doctor in Manchuria, my grandfather was a banker, and my (Korean) father is a PhD physicist (came to UC Berkeley on a scholarship after the Korean War & met my mother there); on my mother's side (England) I think she's the first college grad -- her grandmother (who raised my mother, who was an orphan) left school after 3rd grade to go into domestic service. Interesting thread! :auto:
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My husband works with brilliant physicists at a national lab, and there is more than one man there who, as my husband says, "can't spell his way out of a paper bag." One scientist will even make final viewgraphs for presentations that still have the red underlining on lots of words (the red dots that Microsoft Word uses to tell you a word is misspelled)!! He just doesn't notice or care about the spelling -- and it hasn't hurt his science career. My son was spelling schedule "skejul" -- and my mother showed me a very useful tool. She took Scrabble tiles for S, C, H, etc. and had him try to spell it using those. Since there were no J or K tiles, he couldn't use them! When he got it right consistently, she took one tile away at random and he had to figure out which one was missing. I have to say, he has *never* misspelled that word again. We use this occasionally for words he *has* to know (like his middle name LOL).
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keep talent search SAT scores on record?
Laura in CA replied to Laura in CA's topic in Accelerated Learner Board
Thanks, Danielle! ~Laura -
You brought up some excellent points. I didn't realize I wouldn't be asked to show "official" scores. I guess I'm inherently not a risk-taker, and I was worried I'd misplace the score report we just got. Guess I'll make multiple copies and scatter them around the house LOL. Thanks for all the helpful info! I love these boards :-)
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keep talent search SAT scores on record?
Laura in CA replied to Laura in CA's topic in Accelerated Learner Board
I didn't know that the programs just ask for a copy of the scores, not an official score report from the College Board. Thanks, Mary, for the info! ~Laura -
Hi, everyone - I'm a lurker who has benefited a ton from reading these boards, but until now I haven't felt I had anything to add to the discussions, or any questions to ask. Now I do have a question -- my 12-year-old son took the SAT in January as part of the JHU CTY talent search, and I'm wondering if I should ask the College Board to keep his scores on his record. It clearly states on the score report that he was in grade "<8"; they're quite decent scores (well, the math score is quite high; the "verbal" score is mediocre, but he had a bad cold at the time, and we told him to just answer a few on those sections. It's a looonnng test!), esp. considering he was only 12 at the time. I have every reason to believe his 11th- or 12th-grade scores will be much higher, so the score report will show only improvement (esp. the verbal score). We had him take this test to get an objective confirmation of his abilities, so conceivably I will be using the scores in the future to gain entrance to various programs (that's why I was thinking I'd leave them on his record) . . . I can't see any downside to keeping the scores. Does anyone have any experience or feelings about this issue they'd like to share? I'd appreciate any advice. This is new territory for me. Thanks so much! ~Laura
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keep talent search SAT scores on record?
Laura in CA replied to Laura in CA's topic in Accelerated Learner Board
It had just occurred to me that maybe I should also post on the high-school board. (Like I said, I'm new at this!) I'll do that! ~Laura -
Hi, everyone - I'm a lurker who has benefited a ton from reading these boards, but until now I haven't felt I had anything to add to the discussions, or any questions to ask. Now I do have a question -- my 12-year-old son took the SAT in January as part of the JHU CTY talent search, and I'm wondering if I should ask the College Board to keep his scores on his record. It clearly states on the score report that he was in grade "<8"; they're quite decent scores (well, the math score is quite high; the "verbal" score is mediocre, but he had a bad cold at the time, and we told him to just answer a few on those sections. It's a looonnng test!), esp. considering he was only 12 at the time. I have every reason to believe his 11th- or 12th-grade scores will be much higher, so the score report will show only improvement (esp. the verbal score). We had him take this test to get an objective confirmation of his abilities, so conceivably I will be using the scores in the future to gain entrance to various programs (that's why I was thinking I'd leave them on his record) . . . I can't see any downside to keeping the scores. Does anyone have any experience or feelings about this issue they'd like to share? I'd appreciate any advice. This is new territory for me. Thanks so much! ~Laura