What? What on earth? How is boycotting a company hateful and bigoted? Why does tolerance require that I continue to patronize them?

If there is a prerequisite, look at what it is -- usually it's intermediate or college algebra, sometimes business calculus. If there is no prerequisite, ask the department that teaches the stats class what they would recommend. Stats classes vary too widely for anyone here to give you a really useful answer.

In the current climate, probably yes. There might be a few white supremacists who would deliberately try to patronize the store in order to support them, but they're really a dying breed. 50 years ago I would argue differently. I think at that point in many areas there would have been enough that such a business would have been viable.

Graphical text is different. I am very unhappy with the graphing text's coverage of trigonometry. I liked the coverage in the college algebra/trig book much better.

The thing that really weirds me out is that my facebook friends who are the most vocal about how we need Christian laws are also the most paranoid about Sharia laws.

Right. If you've read something somewhere and you know it but you don't remember where you read it, use google.

Oh, lots of things. Personally I would do things at home outside the normal core curriculum for math majors, specifically avoiding subjects such as a rigorous course in modern algebra/real analysis as the school is unlikely to grant advanced credit. Rather I'd look at courses which are generally electives, that will greatly enrich his mathematical breadth and depth. There's some advanced elective books listed here: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/Math_books -- you'll notice many books from the Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library of the MAA, and the books listed by Gelfand are excellent. The Anneli Lax has more than are listed -- for example, an elementary introduction to topology. Another option could be looking at introductory university texts from other parts of the world -- for example, I really like Alan Beardon's Algebra and Geometry. It links linear algebra and group theory in a text for first-year undergraduates in the UK. One of the issues I see with American undergraduates is that too often they complete a modern algebra class with little understanding as to what it's actually used for, having become lost in the details. This book fills in these gaps and would be a truly excellent prequel to a serious course in abstract algebra.

Same as above except the spices I use are salt, pepper, cayenne, garlic, dried mustard, and soy sauce. Delicious. But you can really use pretty much any spice combination you like. They reheat well.

Critterfixer, sorry, I was out of town and didn't see this in time. Two things that I didn't see mentioned: Multiplying by 6 is just fine but you must apply the distributive law (is this the name of the thing you were missing?) to multiply the entire right side by 6. In general, though, with equations such as this it is frequently simplest to work in *reverse* order of operations. That is, undo adding and subtracting first, then multiplying and dividing, then exponents if they exist, then parentheses if they exist -- the exact opposite of how you would do an evaluation.

If he likes science: Heinlein's juveniles David Weber's Honor Harrington series (there's some non-marital intercourse in there if that's a deal-breaker)

I would expect 8/7 in that case but yes, do the placement test. I wouldn't be surprised by one either up or down.

Yes yes yes. If someone just wants to get into the world of work then finishing early or using freed-up time to do internships is a GREAT idea. For example, someone who wants to be a high school math teacher and enters with 30 credits of math and 30 credits of gen eds through DE/AP/CLEP would have no reasons other than intellectual fulfillment to spend extra time taking courses.

ultrapasteurized will work. Freezing de-homogenizes it so you'll need to shake it before drinking, but other than that not really an issue.

It happens, but it's also common for them to be rejected. However, I would like to point out that what I said was "racing through a degree" and not just "doing a degree". The idea of doing more advanced material sooner is a fine one -- the idea of finishing in 2 years because of advanced standing and then going to a good graduate school is less so. The extra time should be used to do things like research, advanced independent study electives, start on grad-school courses (graduate courses taken at a second-tier university would be kind of like DE classes at undergrad -- the first-tier graduate school is likely to require them to be repeated but they will strengthen the application significantly).

I would absolutely do the placement test if you really wanted to do Saxon, but unless MM has stopped working I would be more inclined to finish the scope and sequence by doing MM7, after which the student should be ready for algebra.

What Butler says. Math is one of the fields where it is the easiest to convince them to give you advanced standing if not advanced credit. It is most common to have a cumulative final where a student who can pass the final clearly does not need to take the course and can substitute (for example) Advanced Differential Equations as credit instead of Differential Equations. Also, racing through a degree at a mid-tier university is unlikely to lead to a top-tier graduate school -- the student would be far better off doing something like Freshman and Sophomore years, complete all gen eds + all advanced math classes the school offers, Junior Year, go for study abroad someplace like Budapest Semesters in Mathematics or the Moscow equivalent (I know people who did both and it was a brilliant experience, very rigorous classes), Senior Year, apply for graduate schools, do independent studies and/or research, and pick up any missing gen eds.

You know, I think if he likes dystopian/survival you could work a lot of that into a project based non-ap environmental science, and you could also add in some relevant literature. For example, study ecologies -- think about what would happen with humans removed -- read Earth Abides -- generalize to what might happen in your local area.

+1 for both if possible. Economics frequently requires their own statistics course -- that is, it is taught in the econ department -- so he may not be able to place out of it even with AP. However, prior exposure is very useful. Someone who's potentially looking at graduate school for economics should take calculus while someone who is not can almost everywhere take a "calculus for business and social sciences" course instead, so if graduate school is even a vague possibility I would take the calculus now while the algebra and trig skills are sharp and fresh. Another option could be to dual enroll for business calculus in the fall and a stats course in the spring (make sure it transfers to any potential schools -- that is why I put stats in the spring). That way he could have his college math requirement already completed if he did not choose to do the pre-grad-school option, and even if he did, the prior exposure to calculus concepts would help. Business calculus is very light on theory and heavy on practical applications.

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Yes, I learned from another TA in my first semester in graduate school to make a large slash through any problems left blank.

Another option with respect to changing answers is to do the tedious work of sitting there and running each one through a scanner, and save it as one large file with students in alphabetical order. If a student claims it was mismarked, it is simple to check.

Stroud is going to cover it from a very different perspective than many other texts -- what are your goals with these courses? Merely knowledge, or to place out of university courses, and if so, in which country?

Not a female, but I really like Wolf Brother by Jim Kjelgaard (spelling?) for your intended purposes.

Furthermore, if she WERE penalized for complaining about something like that, it's a pretty sure sign that she should be moving heaven and earth to get into a different college rather than putting up with this crap that goes on her permanent record.

Not really, no. If it's just loose skin, there's not much you can do non-surgically other than make sure to use moisturizer and hope it shrinks. If there's fat involved, overall fat reduction needs to happen. Some people are unlucky enough to have under their chin be the first place they gain weight.