If the student started with pre-algebra, they can double up (algebra 2/geometry in same year) or use summers to get credits. In this case, options for a fourth year include: precalc AP stats or stats at a CC Math for liberal arts, at home with something like Jacobs MHE or at a CC.

Not sure if I'm reading your post correctly, but you do need to make sure he has an allowed calculator that can do things like numerical integration and knows how to use it.

Yep. It's also easy for kids to decide "everything else is so easy and I have to work at math, so I suck at math and I hate math". It's also *really* easy for a kid to see their older sibling complaining about math and join in.

The reason I would have phrased it that way is that it gives her a chance to back down and save face. If you back someone into a corner with a verbal argument, they tend to respond with rationalization and defensiveness explaining why it was right of them in the first place, and many other people jump in to defend the original statement because whoever posted it feels attacked. If they realize that it was a bigoted comment without you explicitly saying so, they are more likely to back down. So my reasoning boils down to "Would I rather be explicit, or effective?"

I would respond but differently -- I would have said something more along the lines of "I hope nobody at all steals anything from you."

Yes. Ask them to please put you on the list for next year when you hopefully won't be miserably in the late stages of pregnancy.

It won't have crippled you intellectually, but you absolutely have to get solid in mathematics to do a degree in anything like that. If you spent a lot of time reading your english probably isn't that bad. Find something to work on math that's good for self-teaching. If you were in the US I'd recommend you get a developmental CC text and starting finding holes, but I'm not as familiar with Australian resources. Go as far back as you need to in order to get your knowledge solid, even if it means you need to go all the way back to the beginning of secondary school or even more. (The good news is you can learn it much faster than you could if you were 11, since your brain is more developed). You have to be working on math every day, though -- not trying to cram in 6 hours on one day and then two days off.

I've given up on trying to use content for anything.

The Ivies have also tried to make it a lot more obvious that they would very much like to recruit talented but low-income students lately, with the "waiving tuition if your income is under x dollars" and the like.

My name is Gene? There's a secular version and a non-secular version.

For math I'd either do Saxon 2 or CLE 1 -- probably go with the CLE 1 because it's cheaper and you want to switch to CLE anyway.

Nothing you can say is going to change her mind. It's just going to make her feel assaulted and surrounded. I tend to just pass the bean dip in these situations.

If he does fine with two-digit and struggles with three-digit I'd suspect it's a 'too many steps' issue right now.

I'm really not sure of your point -- are you trying to say that if they call it a quarter they give quarter credits and if they call it a trimester they give semester credits? I would consider it unlikely that this is uniform and it is certainly not something that someone should rely on. The point I'm trying to make (with which I do not think you disagree) is that a student attending a college that doesn't run on standard semesters should investigate how many contact hours they are getting when determining how many credits to assign.

In the freezer? Sure. The big concern about leaving food in the freezer too long is deterioration of quality.

Beginning algebra = algebra 1. Intermediate algebra = a non-honors algebra 2. College algebra = first half of precalc. Precalc = second half of precalc. I don't believe you'd get 18 transferrable hours most places. Intermediate algebra is rarely a transferrable course. A few quickie online schools count it. You can always place out of it through a placement test or completion of a higher course. If you cannot pass the college's placement test you really should not be trying to place out of the class. Thus there is no point in doing the ACE certification. It might be useful for non-STEM majors to get the college algebra and the precalculus. It is very unlikely that doing the college mathematics exam as well as the other two would be useful. It is possible that you might talk a college into giving you a few math credits for it, but at that point they'd only count as general electives, and very few students are short of general electives at graduation time. Too many credits is far more common than too few. The only point at which I'd study for the CLEP test in college mathematics is if my student were trying to get a quickie degree from an online school while taking as few actual credits as possible, or if my student were a struggling math student who just couldn't hack college algebra and I knew their future school accepted this test. For students aiming at majors which require calculus there is no point whatsoever to taking these. The placement test will put them in calculus if they deserve to be there, and you do not want your child placed into calculus on the basis of an ALEKS course if they would fail the placement test. Trust me -- that would be setting them up to fail calculus. Statistics is probably worthwhile although if possible I'd study for and take the AP test rather than just relying on the ALEKS transcript. Many schools (including the one I work for) do not accept ACE credit but do accept AP. Again this is moot if the student is a senior who is already certain of their college.

Out of curiosity, how does he do with two-digit addition/subtraction involving this? It might be worthwhile to go back and keep practicing with that a bit more if he's struggling with 3 digits.

This is complicated by the fact that some colleges that still run on quarters assign semester credits. 3 hours a week for a 10 week quarter is clearly less class time than 3 hours a week for a 15 week semester. In this scheme, 3 quarter credits will not cover as much as 3 semester credits. 5 hours a week for 10 weeks is the same as 3 hours a week for 15 weeks, which is why the general equivalency was that 5 quarter hours equal 3 semester hours. In this system, a student would take the same number of courses as they do under semesters, but each class would cover somewhat less. Some colleges (like north central college, mentioned) effectively assign semester credit for classes taught over a quarter. If you look at their class schedules, you can see that their 3-credit courses, rather than going for 150 class minutes a week, go for 210 class minutes a week, but over a shorter term. In this scheme, 3 credits is 3 credits and it would transfer exactly. A student would not take 12-18 credits, but rather 8-12. Be careful you are comparing apples to apples when you discuss semester vs. quarter credits.

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Given as he spent the fall doing alg 1 review and was going to do some parts of alg 2 in the spring I'd consider it better to just start alg 2 slowly now with a CC book such as Lial, Larson, Martin-Gay, etcetera, and work at his pace through the summer and next school year. Since he will no longer be in PS he doesn't need to make it fit within one school year. The school needs to do it this way because it's logistically very complicated to offer 'slow algebra 2' and 'regular algebra 2' and less complicated to do 'algebra 2 prep' and 'algebra 2'. These books are designed for developmental CC students so they include plenty of algebra 1 review. Spreading it over 4 semesters (including summer) will be basically doing it at half-pace. You should still transcript it as whatever the school was going to transcript it as.

As far as the $40, honestly, I only expect the price of Jacobs to go up, so I'd be astonished if you couldn't sell it for at least what you paid for it.

I'd rather do math lightly over the summer -- half a lesson a day or something like that.

He sounds better prepared than I was for my first solo international flight (at the same age). :)

Good school ... and good odds! ;)

physics of tennis alone would be really difficult to justify a full credit. physics of sports is sometimes taught as a university-level elective but I'd rather use it as a supplement to a more conventional physics course