I can't right now find the link to the study that said 10 prunes per day, but I can find secondary sources of it. I think it was an Italian study. Your tummy might complain if you go straight from no prunes to 10 per day :) "A study in 2011 found women who had eaten 10 prunes a day for a year had "significantly higher" bone mineral density." Source: The Guardian.

Thank you Julie. I am not trying to avoid a rigourous course. But I am trying to avoid the designation of AP Calculus on the transcript - I already know he will not take the AP Calc exam.

Not a deal breaker at all, but that is a good point. We are self-grading DO precalc and would do the same for DO calc. I have an engineering degree, although I will admittedly have to shake the cobwebs off my calculus.

MarkT, Are you saying that the first 12 units of Thinkwell Calculus plus L'Hôpital's Rule would be considered a full 1 credit course for high school calculus? Again, I am just trying to position him well for Calc I in college. He will not take an AP Calc exam. He is taking Derek Owens Precalc this year if that helps. We might also continue with DO next year, but I want to explore Thinkwell too. Thanks :)

IIRC, he was withdrawing calcium supplement recommendation for ME based on concerns about heart disease. That is not to say that he would have made the same recommendation to someone else, of course. The research is mixed, so YMMV. I don't like taking supplements so there is that factor. Other people are pro-supplement. On the other hand, I am fine with changing my diet for just a chance at improvement. So I eat prunes :)

Looking at Thinkwell Calculus website, I see this: "Thinkwell's Calculus course covers both Calculus I and Calculus II, each of which is a one-semester course in college. If you plan to take the AP Calculus AB or AP Calculus BC exam, you should consider our Calculus for AP courses, which have assessments targeted to the AP exam." I am trying to find a non-AP version of calculus for my son's senior year so that when he takes Calculus I in college he will have had some exposure. I guess I am surprised that the non-AP version is covering both Calc I and Calc II. :eek: . The schools I have looked at that award credit for AP Calc only award credit for Calc II if you took the AP Calc BC exam. Maybe Thinkwell Calculus is not the right choice for a student who wants a non-AP version of Calculus I. I am interested in your opinions :)

I had been sliding toward osteopenia for several years, and received that diagnosis last year. Mine came from cancer treatment and early menopause. I no longer take calcium supplements - my GP recommended not taking them. I am dairy free for reasons unrelated to osteopenia. I do take Vitamin D, try to be diligent about weight bearing exercise, and I eat calcium-rich food. I eat prunes. There are several studies claiming their benefit for bones. I can try to find them again if you want me to. Here is one about postmenopausal women: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26902092

This reminds me of my mom and me as a team. She enjoys cleaning and decorating, and I enjoy cooking. It really works out well. -- OP, cleaning also sets off my allergies. Of course, not cleaning doesn't do said allergies any favors either. Bah.

Yes, I have used the GTD system for 15 years or so. I don't do evey bit of it. Once every few years, I like to skim through the book again. My biggest take away point was to only put actionable items on my to do list. For example, I need to help my oldest son find some health insurance before he ages out of ours. But "Help DS get health insurance" is a project. You can't do a project. Example actions would be call our insurance agent, research deadlines, brainstorm options with DS. I try to structure my to do list with something to actually DO: Research Call Buy Send Fill Out Email Order Find Update It was GTD that first made me think that way. This week, I was trying to figure out how to keep track of events we might want to go to. Upcoming festivals and stuff like that. I don't want to put them on our calendar. Then, I thought about the GTD Tickler File system and realized that I could use a form of that. I don't have a Tickler File set up the way that GTD suggests, but I am rethinking that now.

I just discovered Mr. D's ACT Math Bootcamp. Has anyone participated in this ?

Jumped with joy this morning. A bill that I knew I had paid has been haunting me since June. FINALLY the other party has acknowledged that yes indeed I did actually pay them back in June. Getting ready for houseguests who will arrive around dinnertime. Did precalc yesterday, but did not finish the week's work. So more precalc this morning. Worked on Latin while drinking my first cup of coffee. :hurray:

We spread World History over 9th and 10th. He also had Comparative Government in 10th. This year (11th) is United States History and a semester of geography. Still deciding when to do American Government and what to do for 12th. I think you have a lot of options.

Truth be told, I don't even put housekeeping on my lists. It is a good thing we have frequent houseguests, as that does motivate us to clean! ETA I am, however, determined that food prep and all that entails (planning/shopping/cooking) make the cut. We need that to keep health and budget in check. I have said this before and not accomplished it though :cursing: .

Following :) My 11th grader is also interested in Wooster, to which I give Jane in NC the credit. She put it on my radar. We are wondering what the surrounding area is like.

:grouphug: Hope everything is going well for your loved ones Houston. -- Good morning, all. Since tomorrow is September 1, it is time to get my accountability mojo going. Anyone else love the first of a new month?! DS is in 11th grade and classes have been added gradually. Russian started two weeks ago. His first-ever DE class started last week. So did Physics (Clover Creek). AP Language and Composition started this week (PAHS). We need to add in "my" classes after the Labor Day weekend. I am worried that they will get shoved aside by the hard deadlines of the outsourced classes. These are the classes I am in charge of: Precalculus. I am going to do all of the problems and stay one week ahead of DS. So I started this week. United States History. I haven't finished thinking through how we are going to use the resources that I have gathered and I am running out of time :scared: . But I have something we can start with. Sometimes starting is good enough. Cumulative Art/Music/PE credits. So hard to work these in. But we must chip away somehow! -- Today, we have an extracurricular meeting this afternoon. Tomorrow, we are getting company for the weekend (good friends so yay). I am going to try to finish my precalc for the week today, and think about how I am going to arrange my routines. I have make sure that I have time allotted for my own studies, physical activity, and hobbies.

It is hard for me to figure out what to skip without doing the problems myself. Sigh. But my student will get bogged down and have trouble keeping the schedule if there are too many problems.

Thank you all for the replies. They are helpful! One of the reasons that I have gone to DO is because left to my own devices, I assign too many problems.

Huh. Well I have not been billed yet so let's see how that goes.

Yep.

I emailed and asked for solutions and received only the solutions to the homework problems. A second email request got me the solutions to the chapter tests. Now the only thing I am missing are the semester exams. Just keep asking until you get what you need :) I bought a solutions manual to the text in case we need help with the practice problems.

DS will start Derek Owens Precalc next week, and I am trying to think through the daily details. Did your student do all of the Practice Problems after each lesson then work on the Homework Sets after a cluster of lessons? Did you think the number of Practice Problems to be about right ? Too many? Average math student here. I think I will just tell him to follow the syllabus as far as how much to get done each week. We are self-grading BTW.

What I am reading this week: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Middle Son loves this book. Middle Son is also an avid sci fi reader (and writer :001_wub: ). I am a wannabe sci fi reader who is glad that Middle Son was around to help me sort out the first few chapters. I told him that leaving me to figure this out would be akin to handing a Charles Dickens tome to someone who has only read light fluff before. I am on page 165/600 and able to manage on my own, now :lol: Every other chapter has spiders as the main characters and I love these chapters. Did I just say that?! I pretty much loathe creepy crawlies. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey The bedridden author is entertained by a wild snail that is living in the potted plant next to her bed. This is a lovely, contemplative, and short book. It is for my IRL non-fiction book club. Snails do not bite or sting so they do not give me the heebie jeebies. I am fine with snail slime. Still working on the audio book of Echo. I like it but wish I were done. 11+ hours for a middle grades book, even a good one, is just too much.

Well, boo on that. Their loss for sure. :grouphug:

Tress, I am so sorry to hear about your mom :grouphug: :grouphug: . (Loesje, please pass my condolences to Tress if you can, not sure she would be visiting the boards anytime soon)

Only 80% here but a perfectly clear day. We went to a gathering at the local college. The shadows were lovely and the 80% was still worth the effort.