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    Math help! What can I cut out of Teaching Textbooks Pre-Calculus.

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    2 hours ago, Farrar said:

    Another vote to either pick a date and call it or pick a chapter that's in the very near future and call it. She's a senior. She's finished. My senior has one calc exam and one self-paced course to finish before I send in his transcript to his college as finished. My other senior is... done, I guess. Sigh. I don't even know, but he finished the things he was doing. We're calling it graduated. You just have to call it done.

    Thanks for the encouragement!

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    Math help! What can I cut out of Teaching Textbooks Pre-Calculus.

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    Thank you for the replies! My daughter is considering college but is not sure. She feels that she may need to take some time off first to work on her health and to de-stress. Stress can cause her condition to flare up. She would like to get a degree in the language arts field so she won’t need too much math. She really wants to take what is considered “normal courses” for high school though and wants to finish a pre-calc course. It takes her on average 3.5 hours per day to do a lesson but she is determined to get through it and her other work she is behind on. I’m trying to lighten the load for her so thank you for the help.

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    Math help! What can I cut out of Teaching Textbooks Pre-Calculus.

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    Please help me graduate my senior. She’s had a lot of struggles in math and science and is very behind in most subjects  - but particularly math. She has mild autism and lupus so doesn’t feel well a lot and has trouble coping emotionally. She is taking TT pre-calculus but it takes her hours a day and she just finished chapter two. We are trying to finish twelfth grade by the end of August but then she would have to do a lesson per day which may be too much for her. Is there anything I can cut out of the course and it would be still considered sufficient for a pre-calc credit?

    American history courses that are split over 2 years for high school?

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    One thing to consider if you do this is how things work for your state and state universities, if you intend to apply to those.

     

    Some states and I think maybe a few universities I’ve seen specify a year of US History, one of world history, and one of government. So doing two years of US history commits you to doing history all four years, unless you double up one year. Some students may want to use the fourth year of social studies to take an elective like psychology or geography, and others may want to use that slot for an extra science or language, etc.

     

    If this is a concern, you could integrate the study of American government into the two year history plan and designate one or two of the semesters as “American governmentâ€.

    Here the University requires only US history and one other unit in social studies. Thank you so much for your great advice. It's something I will consider. I just started planning for next year (9th grade) and I'm changing my mind about a million times. This is sooooo stressful!!

    American history courses that are split over 2 years for high school?

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    We split American History over two years for our kids, from early America to Civil War period, and then Reconstruction to present.  

     

    We used Joy Hakim's The History of US series as our spine, but incorporated lots of books and projects on our own.  The History of US doesn't have its own curriculum (or at least didn't when we used it).  We just built our curriculum and projects around it, and split it into two years.  We also watched a lot of supporting documentaries. 

     

    Thank you for the reply!  I will check out that text.

    What did you do after R&S math 8?

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    I used these:

     

    https://www.amazon.com/Optional-Captioning-Prealgebra-Introductory-Algebra/dp/0321599306/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1494710965&sr=8-15&keywords=Lials+dvds

     

    I would avoid any of the other versions that say "dvt". Those will only work on the computer and I've had trouble getting them to work at all on a pc.

     

    We watched the video for whatever section we were covering on day one and did all the margin exercises as well. On day two, my ds did every other problem of the section exercises.

    Thanks!

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