Here is another math problem of the week from The University of Waterloo: http://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/potw.php

We use BA with occasionally SM IP and CWP, but also a gazillion other math things. The last few days he's gotten into this math game called Sprouts. You can google it. Simple to play, but lots of math if you look into the relationships, etc. We do XtraMath. My son is 2E and although he can think and understand difficult concepts he isn't always very fast. So we are trying to get quicker at his facts, even though he already knows them. You could start your son with the addition fact practice. That is totally independent work. Since he is familiar with the math u see rods he could do the fact practice on the Math U See site. When my son was five we did some vintage math workbooks I had picked up at library sales, etc. Those were independent work. They were self teaching or very intuitive work, similar to me in how SM 1A/1B were very intuitive. He also did those around K. He played a lot of apps like all of the DragonBox games. Those are beautiful. You could give him a basket of cuisenaire rods and let him watch some of the videos online Education Unboxed. We did Life of Fred Apples then too. He watched some math shows on YouTube. We played LOTS of games together. Oh and mazes! We had so many maze/puzzle books. He played logic games like Traffic Jam. I guess my advice is to play with math at this stage. Mobeius Noodles was fun. Waldorf math circles were neat to explore. Skip counting games like hopscotch. We had the Right Start book called Games for the AL Abacus. There are also free books online with a million games you can play with a deck of cards. It wasn't long after we did all these things in K/1 that he got VERY interested in Galileo and Euclid. Stories about mathematicians. Also Benjamin Franklin. He literally checked out EVERY book about Benjamin Franklin in our entire statewide library system over a few months. He cried for Leyden jars.

I do not feel like we fit ps at all--hence homeschooling. I would love to hear you elaborate about other possible sequences for high achieving homeschoolers than the modern ps AP route.

"AP coursework completed in 9th grade is not often deemed credible by the higher education community." WHHHAT!? If you are using an approved syallbus this doesn't seem logical. Is the coursework somehow different if you are 10 or 15 or 17/18? I guess this makes following their AP Course Audit process very important if you want to list these courses as AP instead of just xyz with AP exam on their transcript. How does early testing work with regards to the AP National Scholar programs?

I am not at all musical. at all. My nephew just turned 10 and he does both violin and piano. He also started out with violin, but then got interested in piano. He has a great teacher and does lessons one right after the other at the same location. I think if his mom (a busy NICU doctor) had to drive to multiple locations at different times it would not work, but this arrangement has been great for him. Would he be able to do something like that?

The only AoPs pre-req for Intro to Python is Pre-A course. If your kid has played programming games like Robot Turtles and Lightbot when he was very little. To me these were like preprogramming. Then code.org courses followed now by playing on CodeMonkey daily or his Kano computer. He also has a coding club available that we might start making our Tuesday evening outing. Would these count as actual programming? The AoPS site says, "Students who have programmed before, but not with Python, might be better served by downloading an online textbook and studying it on their own." Which online textbook would replace their Intro to Python course? After the above poster mentioned the CTY course I had to go check out their offerings. I saw they have an Intro to CS for 3-6 grade that I think Robby could probably do this summer. It uses a Makey-Makey as part of the course. I have considered buying him one of these the past few Christmases, but then opted for other gifts. That just leaves applying for CTY, I guess. I have not had him take the SCAT only the WISC-V. If the goal is passing the AP CS A exam what is the best sequence to prepare for it? I know the basic math sequence to Calc, but no idea the progression through CS to college level course. I guess this is part of the program of homeschooling AL students. I so appreciate this board and people posting questions like this topic because it helps me begin thinking about our own path to these course and beyond.

We just listened to Little Bo on a long drive to Florida. Very sweet. I had no idea it was a series though. Thank you!

Just a quick google search for the AP CS exam brought up two different tests. AP CS A and AP CS Principles. It says that CS Principles parallels CS A. I don't quite understand that. Would you have your student take both around the same time? So if your AL takes an AP say in 7th grade like CS A (which the Wikipedia says is equivalent to a first semester course) would you give a grade/.5 credit of HS? I am already getting nervous about what to do with Algebra when he takes it in 5th or so. Do I record that as HS credit? **Sorry to hijack this thread**

I have been thinking about future AP classes and my biggest concern is taking them too early so the scores may not be viewed on their regular report or be too old for the college to recognize them for credit.

I believe it is in early May.

I hope your 5th grader enjoyed the test. This was my son's second year. I really enjoyed it this year. Since it was a lot of review (only taking the first section for the second time), it was like having an old friend over for a visit. My son mostly listens to us read aloud a section and then he narrates it. A lot of the time he will them draw a picture related to the story and will write either the name of the god or a sentence like "Demeter wept for her daughter Persephone in Hades." I also photocopied the two pages in the back that had the gods with their Roman and Greek names. I cut the pictures out and pasted them on index cards to make flashcards. Sorry I didn't respond earlier.

Last year we did a comprehensive set of tests (like more than 5 in speech/language alone!) including WISC V and a standard achievement. He scored VERY high and low. They wanted to place him in a first grade classroom because of his reading skills which they said were a specific learning disability: basic reading skills (dyslexic). We did not enroll him. He was born a month early with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He had significant delays. Plus he is a boy. I am so glad that we homeschool because I don't know how we would place him in a classroom. There is a school in the county north of us called PEGS that Robby where he would probably fit best with other profoundly gifted students. It is VERY small and is for most of St. Louis metro. Anyways, here we are homeschooling. I don't know if this is his second or third grade year. We did a very relaxed K year (except he was experimenting with many different circuits (way beyond open/close) and trying to find what substances were the best conductors and insulators in our home). He could not begin to sound out cvc words or read Cat in the Hat last fall. He did not talk until he was 3, but he completely took apart his rocking chair and then reassembled it with a ratchet when he was 2. We are submitting his 4th science fair project next month and I put down 3rd grade (I have thought about calling and talking to the director about what grade to use) on that because we submitted one in his K year, but when I think about him being behind in other areas I always say in my head that he is doing well for a second grader as that is what he would be in the public school. We are on the verge of finishing elementary maths and entering Pre-A. That would not work in our local public school as a second grader. Arms in the air. For his science fair project he watches college lectures on youtube about generators. I don't have the mental energy to think about how these work somedays. He has plans to make a tiny series of generators to fit into our downspouts to generate electricity when it rains. We read Understood Betsy to Robby last year and he totally related to her working at different grade levels in different subjects. I think that is actually normal. I mostly think his grade will mostly be pretty fluid until we begin recording for his HS transcript.

Lori, We are using BA (currently in BA3), we used some Miquon but mostly Singapore before we began BA. I'd like to do some more Gattegno/Miquon in the future. Is there a post or a chart that might link up when something is taught in BA and its corresponding book/pages in Miquon?

Are you aware of the Gattegno textbooks? Those are great to go along with or after Miquon.

For K/1st we did some basic copywork. Almost a very very simple version of commonplacing. He wrote things like limericks from Edward Gorey, song lyrics, a line from his favorite movie (at the time it was and I hate to admit this, Short Circuit), his address, family member names. This year we were finally able to pick up WWE 1 and he is flying through it. We do two lessons at a time. He narrates very well. It just took more time to develop more fluid writing. He doesn't have to take a mental pause before thinking about how to form a letter or whatever his brain was doing. :)

http://sabbathmoodhomeschool.com/living-science-curriculum/ Plus a science project each year.

I looked at BARD, but it doesn't appear to accept a school professional evaluation or does it? My son's evaluation they did last fall/winter says Specific Learning Disability: Basic Reading Skills.

We use Beast Academy currently as our primary math course, but use a lot of other resources in addition. Since BA doesn't have a 6 is it safe to assume as AoPS states that they can move straight into the AoPS Pre-A text? I assume this would be the equivalent of a 6th grade text. We are moving very quickly through the BA books. My son is also working through a Combinatronics text that was posted in another thread. Then he has done things like all of the Dragon Box apps, recently finished Hands on Equations Level 1 in an afternoon. I bought the Hands on Equations Verbal Questions book, but haven't presented that yet. Is there a good list of all the skills needed before moving on to Pre-A/A? I have a big fear of doing this too soon.

Does anyone know how to set up a folder or label in Gmail to have these emails go directly to a separate folder?

Do you recommend the DVD or book? My library has both options.

There are at least three different volumes on Amazon. Is there much difference in the quality of the volumes?

My husband just finished reading Out of the Silent Planet to our Robby (8). Now I hear things like "Hugo if you do not behave Daddy will poof bang you." Hugo is our dog. Just for the record, we would NEVER kill our dog. So many new things from the Malacandrians speech in our day to day now. I think we'll have to do other books with language translations. Not now, but later definitely 1984. doubleplusgood! This is very interesting to Robby. Also he describes evil, like in the Lord's Prayer, "deliver us from the evil one" as the bent man one.

Is there a way to put audio files onto a Kindle? I was thinking you could add things like the FLL audio or Shurley Grammar jingles.

What age/grade level do you usually begin Fallacy Detective. I see a wide range.

Do you use the fact practice on the Math U See site? I'd make sure he knew his addition/subtraction facts then you could probably begin TT3. I've never used TT before, but have heard they run about a grade behind. Second grade math is usually all the addition/subtraction facts plus multiplication 1, 2, 5, 10 at minimum.