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I will be spending two days there and then heading to Chicago IL by car.
Any recommendation on places to see and restaurants? We got trolly pass for a day, but don’t know what else to see other than downtown. Also my kid really wants to eat the best southern food (as he says).Also we will drive through Bloomington, IN to see U of Indiana. Any suggestion on what to see and do along the way is appreciated. It’s our first time there!
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From @Kathy in Richmond
I saved the info but not the link. Things direct quote from her 🙂
“My 'bare bones' precalculus suggestion would be as follows: (This is for a kid who wants to cover what's usually done in precalculus in a text such as Foerster, but who wants an AoPS flavor & doesn't have two years to go through these volumes. Even so, this course outline would still be well beyond Foerster in depth and difficulty.) Do the exercises in each section and the Chapter Reviews. Starred problems and the end of chapter Challenging Problems could be sampled, but don't feel you have to do them all (it's not possible ).”
Intermediate algebra textbook:
Ch 1 - 4: review
Ch 5 - 6: all
Ch 7.1 - 7.5
Ch 9.1 - 9.2
Ch 10.1 - 10.5
Ch 11.3 -11.4
Ch 13.1 -13.3, 13.5-6
Ch 14.1
Ch 15.1 - 15.3
Ch 16.1 - 16.3
Precalculus textbook:
Ch 1 - 2
Ch 3.1 - 3.4
Ch 4 - 7
Ch 9 - 11
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Mine just wrapped up the second round of midterms. Three more weeks to go until finals. Its seems never ending.
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They prohibit using a reference that was paid.
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Bonfire!!!! As soon as they all the info is verified. My son’s portal had a list of things they expected - official transcripts, AP scores, DE grades. When it went from “pending” to “received,” I knew they worked their way through it all. I tossed everything but the material my younger son used.
If he has taken any DE classes, keep the syllabus from them and keep the lab reports (just in case). Toss the rest!-
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11 hours ago, EKS said:
I'm glad to hear you had a good experience. I wasn't willing to chance it.
But if she is a senior, this is the last rodeo on APs. She wouldn’t be taking more of those.
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Sure. Mine studies French with me and German with CLRC class in middle school. He loved that class.
We outsourced science and literature (CLRC courses) successfully in middle school and had no issues with kids organizing and getting the work done.-
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I would ask a number of questions.
If you plan on taking calculus BC next year, you don’t need to bother taking AB exam this year. You will get AB sub score with BC exam.
If your kid is a senior and AB score gets him out of a math class he really doesn’t want to take, I would go and take an exam. What are you losing? My kid’s friend is terrible at math and needs Calculus 1 for his degree. He is hoping by getting a 3 this year, he never has to do math again. If you are in that situation, take an exam.
If there is no chance he passes the exam, and you are certain of that, let the coordinator know and don’t bother putting him under stress.-
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45 minutes ago, ScoutTN said:
Y’all have the quarter system, right?
Yes 😞
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wow, so many of you are done so early. Mine wraps up mid June.
Yes to continuing this conversation as sophomores. 🙂
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Honestly I think the Rhetoric sequence will more than prepare for college level writing. I would continue to do what you are doing and just read and discuss literature on the side. You could assign a literary essay per semester and if you feel uncomfortable giving feedback, hire a tutor for several sessions to work through with her. I think Cindy Lange at Integritas does some tutoring.
If you really want another class, look at CLRC lit classes (not the Great Books program). They used to not have a lot of assigned writing. But before signing up, I would ask for a syllabus to make sure workload isn’t crazy. It’s been a while since my kid took them. Stay away from Great Books. It’s nuts from the workload perspective.
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Mine has a fairly standard lineup for 12th grade:
AP Iit, AP bio, AP Gov, AP Environmental Science, philosophy. No idea in what to do on math. Thinking AoPS group theory.
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57 minutes ago, pehp said:
OH MY WORD!!!! I had no idea. You mean I can stop setting aside quarters for my son to take to college?! This is excellent--so much easier than coin-operated laundry.
No more coins, but also not free. My kid uses a card. In fact anytime I offer him cash for anything, he looks at me as if I were from another planet. He doesn’t understand how cash is used. 😂
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I agree with @lewelma. Mine was certainly lacking in all skills other than academic and has been learning slowly. Now almost finishing up his freshman year, he can do a lot he wasn’t able when he started out (from vacuuming to attending an office hour). He hasn’t been away from home prior to college.
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29 minutes ago, SanDiegoMom said:
My son committed to UCLA yesterday! Then he went and declined the rest of the schools he was accepted to. Berkeley was the toughest to find the withdrawal button - we joked that they probably couldn't believe someone would be declining admission! The rest were much easier to find. 🙂
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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8 hours ago, Clemsondana said:
My older has taken 6 DE classes from 2 CCs and found that variation is huge. 5 of the classes were online due to scheduling difficulty, and even within that group the experience is not the same.
In the humanities classes, kid's biggest complaint is that the classes seemed designed to encourage cheating. Texts were online, so it was simple to search the text while taking a quiz if one was inclined to do so. I know that one can do that with a book, but it's easier to copy the unknown term to the search bar than it is to scan 100 pages of textbook. Kid thought 2 of the 3 humanities classes were reasonably OK, and it's hard to say otherwise - Psych 101 is pretty easy at most schools. There was some complaint about a British Lit class - they were assigned a specific version of the text, but the quiz questions sometimes came from online quiz sources that used different versions or translations, such that the term or description wasn't present in the assigned version of the text. Although there were a few deadline issues, it was mostly OK and of the sort that is easy to work with - forgetting to post an assignment, so allowing a few extra days to finish.
The online physics and calc 3 were a real challenge. I had worried about the physics lab, but that was actually reasonably done - dropping items or rolling them down inclines can be done at home and is on par with what I remember doing as a student. But, these classes involved a ton of self-teaching, with no book or video lecture (there were little snippet lectures linked to certain homework problems, which could help but gave no context or big picture). The calc class was reasonable, with quick responses from the managing instructor (the course itself was part of a state-wide ecampus program). The midterm and final were taken at the campus testing center. The physics was a real challenge. There was minimal feedback - you could see your grade, but had to ask to even find out what problems you missed on tests. There was no partial credit - on one test kid miscalculated the first part of a problem and subsequently missed the next 2 subparts (done correctly, but using the wrong answer from part 1), so earned a 75%. Despite earning As on every other assignment and test, kid went into the final knowing that if a single question was missed kid would likely earn a B in the class. Kid was incredibly relieved to earn an A, but it seemed absurd that missing 2 questions in a semester (in which there were multiple tests) would be enough to pull your grade to a B. We did think it was good that the homework was self-checking and you had multiple tries to get each question right - it encouraged students to work until they could do most of it.
After that, kid decided to take the next physics class in person. Kid has found it to be very well done - much easier and less stress, but mostly because there is actual teaching and ability to ask questions. The instructor has had to make changes to the schedule and syllabus - there was a week of snow closure, and also an event on campus that caused classes to be canceled. It's been handled in a very reasonable way, with some of the lab time being diverted to working problem sets and taking tests, and 2 short labs being done in one lab session. It's all been clearly communicated. The only complaint is that some work isn't graded promptly.
There are big problems with unprepared students in classes. My kid has been amazed that in easy classes assignments like 'make a discussion post on the topic, 2 paragraphs of at least 4 sentences each' lead to students writing 1 paragraph, or 2 paragraphs of 2 sentences each, or posts on the wrong topic. But, there are also issues with too much self-teaching being required. My younger kid has taken a couple of Derek Owens math classes, which are online, but involve teaching and reasonably prompt feedback on your work. I recommend those classes to others looking for solid math instruction. I would never recommend that anybody take the online math and physics classes at the CC. I would recommend the in-person class, and would say that, at least for the classes that my kid took, the online humanities was fine - nothing spectacular, but 2 were 100-level classes, and those are usually pretty generic and easy no matter where you take them.
We had similar experience with physics classes. But I will say that even now at a four year school, a couple of problems can really cost you a grade. My kid’s physics midterm had three questions. The grade in the class is based on two midterms and one final.
What we found is upper division math and physics had the most motivated kids. Those were students hoping to transfer into engineering to four year schools. The classes were always spilt into kids who were excellent (maybe 10% of the class) and everybody else struggling. Almost no middle.
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Does anybody know if a best way to prep for a French placement test? Any good (and not too massive) review prep either in book or video form?
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Quality of CCs varies substantially in my experience. Some CCs in CA are absolutely excellent. But some more rural ones (like ours sadly) aren’t. I think Covid made things much worse. I worry that the quality lost during Covid is now impossible to regain.
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You are not alone. I have lots of regrets. Homeschooling was extremely isolating for us. Academically excellent but a disaster in all other ways.
Whatever is driving the misery, I hope you find answers. Hugs.-
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2 hours ago, jplain said:
Yup, I think applying early to IU is a good idea. Even though IU transitioned away from rolling admissions this year, those who applied earlier got acceptances and merit offers in late November or early December. My kid applied within a few days of the EA deadline and didn't hear back until early January.
Oh, I didn’t realize they didn’t have rolling admissions anymore.
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1 hour ago, bibiche said:
I was just reading about their Language Flagship program. It sounds fantastic!
And their business and their music. 🤞❤️
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2 hours ago, SanDiegoMom said:
My oldest dd's two roommates were life sciences majors, and they both didn't have calculus until college. One said their math series was lighter calculus and geared towards life sciences. This page lists what is covered in the class: Undergraduate Courses - UCLA Mathematics I just assume it wouldn't be extensive enough to set them up for Physics 1 series?
Gosh, I can’t imagine it being any lesser than AP Calculus, which really all it takes for the 1 series. UCLa runs honors sequence in Calc and physics for those majoring in these areas and needing Caltech level learning. Regular 1 series isn’t that.
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Can he write a solid paragraph? I would keep building on that with the goal of an essay before graduation. I don’t know that I would use a curriculum. WWS seems too much work. I think writing across curriculum as much as he can handle and polishing up paragraphs would be the way I would approach it.
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I am hoping August 1st. We are looking at University of Indiana.
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Anybody from Nashville?
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Thank you!!!!
just checked out Bluebird and they are closed for roof repairs.
We are so excited to visit.