One of my children did the number theory book after Miquon and Hands-On Equations, plus LOF Fractions, Decimals & Percents. Any algebra needed got figured out on the fly (that kid is my most math-intuitive one, though). I wouldn't try to do (or rather, we didn't try to do) the C&P book without algebra first, though (that particular kid did Jacobs, and then went to C&P).

If you don't mind vintage texts, one of my kids really enjoyed "Pre-Calculus Mathematics," by Shanks, Brumfiel, Fleenor, and Eicholz. Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Calculus-Mathematics-M-Shanks/dp/0201007088/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512098330&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AFleenor%2C+Brumfiel+Shanks And here's the Table of Contents: Real Numbers and Coordinates; Functions and their Graphs; Polynomials; Exponential and Logarithmic Functions; The Circular functions; Applications of the Circular Functions; Analytic Trigonometry; Inverse Circular Functions and Trigonometric Equations; Functions on the Natural Numbers; Probability; The Plane; Vectors in the Plane; Space; Vectors in Space; Angles, Lines, and Planes; Linear Equations, Determinants, Matrices; Circles, Cylinders, and Spheres; Conics; Other Coordinate Systems; Parametric Representation of Curves and Surfaces; The Problem of Tangents and the Problem of Areas. It's not an easy book by any means, but it's very thorough (I'm no expert, but I think it goes well beyond some contemporary precalc books in terms of topic coverage), the problems are interesting, and there is no graphing calculator material in it at all, if that is the kind of thing you are wanting. Hope that helps!

Whew! Thanks all.

The site says to upload a "recent" photo; does it matter how recent? i.e., can the Kid use for the December test the photo used in May? Said Kid still looks the same.... Sorry for the perhaps trivial question--this kind of stuff makes me a bit paranoid!

Sending you a private message.

My kids read the New York Review of Books, the Atlantic, Harper's, the Walrus, and the New Yorker regularly, and Canadian Geographic and Geist occasionally.

Whoops--misunderstood something....ignore me!

Ancients: Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature, ed. Wm. Hansen, Indiana University Press. -Lucian, Selected Satires, trans. Lionel Casson, Norton. -Theophrastus, Characters, Loeb. (sorry, I know that's three--but they loved all of these......) Renaissance: Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Nineteenth Century: Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey. 20th Century: Zdenek Jirotka, Saturnin. Yes, we are weird.

Kicks like a girl, links like a pro! Thanks so much, Bonnie!!

I can't seem to paste the link, but there was a useful thread on this topic three years ago with lots of good information. It was Amy Jo's thread on the Logic board started on February 1, 2014, and it was called "Elementary Greek or Athenaze?". Hope that helps (despite my link-incompetence)! ETA: tried a different browser and it worked! http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/503269-elementary-greek-or-athenaze/?hl=%2Bgreek&do=findComment&comment=5462929

Doesn't she live in Florida?

Thank you for that very helpful post, RootAnn! I really appreciate the advice, as well as all of the links--it's kind of you to go to all of that work looking things up for me. And thanks again for the encouragement, Arcadia! ETA: Just saw your post, gstharr; thank you, too!

Thanks for your reply, Arcadia. There are no AP test centres readily available to us.

I know this will vary by student, but generally speaking, which test do you think has more capacity to show improvement? Given basically equal, decent-but-room-for-improvement initial practice test scores, is it easier to improve one's understanding of SAT tricksy questions, or easier to increase speed on the ACT? Thanks for the help!

Another Canadian idea: Brescia University College at the University of Western Ontario in London, ON. It's a women's college. brescia.uwo.ca US admissions requirements indicate minimum 1100 SAT and 3.0 GPA. Students can also take courses at the other affiliated colleges (Huron and King's) as well as at Western itself. International tuition with fees looks to be in the neighbourhood of $28,000 CDN (our dollar is about 80 cents at the moment). London is a nice city, and Western is a good school. I don't know anything about Brescia itself, but you might find it worth a look.

Maybe this is silly, but I am wondering--if she liked the comic book aspects of Beast Academy, do you think she might enjoy something like the Murderous Maths books? Our library's got them--maybe yours does, too. If math is a big struggle for her, she might enjoy a little bit of fun/silliness with it once in a while. One of my kids enjoyed the Danica McKellar series Pen mentioned above (we got them from the library). I wonder if there would be anything at the Living Math site that might capture her interest? www.livingmath.net Some people find JUMP math quite helpful for kids who struggle: www.jumpmath.org The workbooks are quite inexpensive, and the teacher's guides are free on their website. Their materials only go up to grade 8, though. Other inexpensive back-to-basics kinds of things are the Keys To books, Strayer-Upton books, and Rod and Staff, which all have their strengths. MEP is free online; I wonder if that would be worth a look? www.cimt.org.uk/project/mep/ Once you get to Algebra and beyond, I know people who have enjoyed using the Fresh Approach books by Christy Walters. I know that none of these things have the outside accountability that you are looking for--just tossing out some ideas for things that occurred to me. Good luck to you and to her! I hope you find just the right thing and that math becomes easier and more enjoyable.

Me, too! I had been just feeling ill every time I thought about what had happened to him--and it was such a joyous thing to hear the good news! It makes me smile every time I think about it.

Just thought I'd pop in to your thread to tell you about someone I know with a humanities PhD who is making a good living as an indexer of scholarly books (in various fields). There are nuances to scholarly indexing that software cannot yet capture, and it takes a real live human being to produce that kind of index--it's very specialised work and it pays well (at least here). Someone else I know is working for an academic press. Various people I know with humanities PhDs are professional editors, speechwriters, translators, and so on. There are jobs beyond the college classroom if that doesn't ultimately work out--really there are. It likely does pay to think ahead and stay a little bit flexible--it never hurts to have a Plan B!--but it would be sad to give up on a dream when that may well not be necessary. Good luck to him!

Listen to Nan! He'll be fine, Jenny--you're doing the right thing by helping out, and it will all be OK in the end. He sounds like a great kid to me.

This is a different thread, but was one of my particular favourites: Drat. Can't link, for some reason. Anyway, the thread was called "A list - balance (how much of what to produce an academically curious, capable adult)," started October 18, 2010 by Nan, with contributions from so many wonderful people. Maybe somebody else has a computer that can produce links! ETA: Garga has linked below--many thanks!!

We loved the Chakerian/Crabill/Stein book here. There are videos available, which we didn't use, but might also be of interest to you. Here is the link to those: https://mathwithoutborders.com/geometry The author of the videos uses the Foerster books for the other courses. Maria Miller has a review of the geometry book on the Math Mammoth website, if that helps. Here that is: https://www.mathmammoth.com/complete/geometry_guided_inquiry.php ETA links.

Merci! You probably all know about the NFB already, but here is the link to their French catalogue, just in case: https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/?language=fr&sort_order=alphabetical&production_year_min=1917&production_year_max=2017&duration_min=20&duration_max=13865&format=all_formats&download_type=all_download_types&alpha_filter=A&genre=all_genres

It sounds as though you are doing a great job already! I find that one gets a lot of nutritional bang-for-the buck with dried legumes (beans, lentils, chick peas, etc.), cabbage-family vegetables, yams/sweet potatoes, root veggies (carrots, beets, turnips), potatoes, and eggs--lots of vitamins for not too much money. Do your kids like other grains? Bulgur and that sort of thing? Mine enjoy salads made with rye grains or cracked wheat--very filling, not very expensive. Stuffed baked potatoes? You could make a can or two of tuna or salmon go a long way in stuffed potatoes. Hummus and whole-wheat pitas? (I make my own pita bread--easy.) Squash is cheap here--is it there? You could stuff baked squash halves with cooked grains mixed with some other little bits of veg or meat (you can stretch a couple of sausages out that way pretty easily). Do you have the space to have a little bit of a garden, even in some containers? You could have more variety in produce if you can grow even some of your own vegetables. Lettuce, radishes, some herbs--all easy and tasty. Beans are really easy. Peas are pretty easy, too. I hope your husband will find work soon--we've been there, too, and it's not very fun.

Any new books?? I love hearing what people are reading! Here: Child is reading Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude, I'm reading Gary Barwin's Yiddish for Pirates, and Husband is reading Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.

Some links stashed away in my bookmarks: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000983471;view=1up;seq=5 (I think Sebastian recommended this once.) https://www.tarquingroup.com/books/ages-16.html (some geometry topics there) http://hyperbolic-crochet.blogspot.ca/ (is he crafty? grin) https://www.geogebra.org/cms/ (learn a new program?) https://books.google.ca/books/p/princeton?id=mYz7QIt3vQoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false (spherical trigonometry) http://finitegeometry.org/sc/16/quiltgeometry.html (quilt geometry) Hope you'll find something fun to do together!