Very quickly for me.

If that works for her that sounds like a great idea. Statistics is very useful for majors in every area as it helps you detect when people are using numbers to lie to you.

No! It will be fine. It will be much better to have AP calc in 12th grade with a 4 or 5 than AP calc in 11th with a 3 because she rushed.

It's worse.

oh my goodness I'm ordering this for me!

They do not. I'm not sure exactly when they stopped being included, but sometimes in the '90s seems about right. My precalc textbook published in the late '80s still had them included, but I haven't seen a new edition with tables in them in years.

Yes. Exactly. I think was alluding to this earlier but perhaps not so explicitly. One of my friends majored in animal science and while he learned a lot, he really wishes he'd done an animal science minor and a major in something where he could get a local job. There are plenty of jobs if you're willing to live on someone else's farm, but he'd have to sell the family farm.

I missed this post originally, but I would really recommend trying both and then choosing one. One might be better in theory but you might find that one of them has a really annoying instructor, and an instructor who makes you feel welcome and like you can really do it even if you're out of shape is a huge bonus.

Does it have to be a B and M? Could you afford to outsource the areas that you feel you are weakest in using online courses? English especially (imo) lends itself well to an online course as much communication and discussion can be carried out through message boards or through Skype/similar conferences.

There is a special pit of hell for people like that.

I agree ... BUT if there's a way to double major or to mix something you love with something that brings in income, totally do it. You can also minor in your area of special interest, which frequently allows you to take all the fun courses. For example, majoring in business and doing some sort of equine science minor (I bet they have a minor) would almost certainly let you get in most of the interesting equine courses. Examples of double majors that people I know have done: music/accounting double major math/music/theatre triple major math/art double major And squishing a minor in usually is nowhere near as difficult.

Painstaking calculation. Here's a website with an explanation (which is typeset much better than can be set here). http://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/trig/compute.html ETA: Biography of the guy who came up with the slide rule (shortly after Napier came up with logarithms): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Oughtred

Yes, you sub it in at the final step. People did not use pocket calculators because they were expensive. They'd use a slide rule or do it by hand.

If she likes games, try Duolingo for a brief exposure.

You know, I'd also add that kids mature a lot between 13 and 17.

There is no standard and both are done in different places.

So why add in another writing program on top of that? There are multiple good programs. You can't do them all. You have to pick one and go with it. Sometimes this necessitates looking at a program and saying "I love that program, but what we're doing now is working great so I am going to ignore it." The rest of your lineup is just fine btw, it's just language arts that's really too heavy. Look at your lineup -- you've got more language arts programs scheduled than everything else put together.

He doesn't have Geometry, but you need Geometry to do Algebra and Trigonometry. So the sequence would go: Algebra, someone else's Geometry, Algebra and Trigonometry, Precalculus, Calculus.

Furthermore, they *really* struggle when doing something like (a+b+c)(x+y) = (a+b+c)x + (a+b+c)y.

Speaking of memorizing squares, it's an amusing mental game to practice using (a+b )^2 to compute squares rapidly. For example: 21^2 = (20+1)^2 = 20^2 + 2*20 + 1^2 = 400 + 40 + 1 = 441.

I would go ahead and buy classic literature (including any foreign languages) for your library now -- that's the sort of stuff it's good to have even if you *don't* study it. Same with fun historical fiction that's probably going to be fun reading even if you don't use it in a curricular sense. Same with science reference encyclopedias. In other words, build your library. For curriculum, y'know, if you know something IS working for you I don't see an issue with buying the rest of the series. For example, CLE sunrise math goes through algebra 1 now -- you could just buy it all up. Same with SOTW -- if you're liking it now I'd go ahead and get the rest of the series. But under no circumstances would I buy multiple years of an untested series.

Haha! We also had posters, both hand-made and purchased, on the wall with fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, pascal's triangle, 800 digits of pi, all the multiplication tables, and probably more that I've forgotten. Whenever we baked cookies, she'd come up with some reason we needed to make 1.5 times the recipe or something and quiz us on fraction multiplication. This is what happens when an engineer homeschools, you see.

interestingly, my mother used to cut my sandwiches into the same visual representation of a+b squared that mathwonk is mentioning, while telling me that this was ab, this was a^2, etc.

Horizons is a good program, I would stay there until and unless it stops working.

I don't have a television. I watch a few shows online ... actually only one now, Hell's Kitchen is my guilty pleasure.