Yes, and on the publisher's site as well. But thanks -- I forgot to mention that in OP. :) This may be just part of my usual vacillation about presents for people. :P

Looking for a friend who's got a K dd in PS. He's not very good at math himself, but would like to help his dd get a better foundation. I live a long way away or I'd offer to help myself. So ideally, looking for something that will help him teach concepts in afterschooling while re-learning them himself, that's NOT a full curriculum. Would the Kitchen Table fit the bill? I've looked at the old threads but I'm still unsure. Anyone used it for help with afterschooling? Or another recommendation?

:iagree: I wish the Korean people the best.

Just click "like" She sees that you saw them.

She may be at risk. It's good to check. They might give her antibiotics anyway as a prophylactic.

With all of the negatives about USSR, I never heard that they did badly in STEM w/their bright kids. As a matter of fact, a lot of our push for improvement was done to try to keep up with them (during the 1960s, when we did get some really good curriculum, along with some stinkers.)

Yes, drawing with her sounds like a great idea. Seeing that adults don't do things perfectly either may help. (Unless of course you are a very skilled artist yourself, lol.)

Might look into the arithmetic for parents book singapore sells. There's also some well-reviewed mathematics for elementary educators books -- and that's what those books are about, to re-teach primary school arithmetic to adults who often know how but not why.

Looking at yours, you and she seem to not be very far off. You said 100/wk for a family of 8, she said 200+60 (the non-food items) for a family of 6. That means you're spending about 12.50 per person per week and she's spending about 11 per person per week.

As a commenter already noticed, yes, they're awfully carb heavy, very small portions of meat. I think it'd raise the price a bit if you went lower carb, but some people do just fine on that carb level. I don't think it's like that crazy woman a while back who was posting about how she made flour and water baked goods for her kids or something similar. It looks okay to me. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a huge saving was on not buying soda. Looking at her grocery list there's 3 gallons of milk, 3 frozen juice concentrates and no other drinks. That means her kids must be drinking a lot of water (which is great and much healthier!). ETA: She also mentioned that they eat on smaller plates which greatly aids in reducing waste, and that they have a well-producing garden.

Yes, I agree. With everything.

Yes. No matter what penalty you put on it, being ripped apart by wild dogs or anything, sickos like this will keep doing what they're doing. They'll just get better about covering it up afterwards. I see no problem, btw, with life in prison to keep the rest safe for crimes like this. I just don't think any deterrent will be strong enough.

Second the recommendation for the AOPS Discrete Math (counting, number theory) books as well as looking through the Algebra book. If you found Jacobs problems low-level and unchallenging, you might seriously consider investing in the Pre-Alg and Algebra books now instead.

Don't forget also that many parents will come in protesting angrily if their darling failed, even if their darling did absolutely zip. If you don't START with support from the principal, the principal will either fire the teacher or just change the grades himself.

When you get the people who make the laws and fund schools to agree with you, I think that you will see a far more honest system of evaluations. Until then, well, if I'm a teacher and told "You have far too many students failing. You need to pass more of them." I can do one of three things. a) quit my job/get fired. b) Start passing people who fail the exams. c) Start teaching differently in an attempt to MAKE them learn something. Unfortunately, given that I like eating and not being homeless, and I refuse to do b), c) is my only real option.

Normally I would strongly recommend against a semester off. Given her senior status, demonstrated talent and intended major, though, I'd recommend spending once-a-week reviewing calc AB and let her do the elective otherwise. Choosing an AP exam practice workbook, even if she's not planning on taking the exam and going with placement testing at the colleges instead, might be a good bet. Otherwise she could just choose problems from the review sections -- I'd choose them towards the end of the sections, i.e. the more difficult problems.

With respect to TT being light (and seeing that you're going to be working on that) I will say that it is FAR, FAR better to have a student using a "light" program that they understand and do well in than a "rigorous" program that they don't understand. This doesn't mean that it's wrong to try to use rigorous programs. But if they're not working, they're NOT.

Wert is value/worth, Welt is world. So it's saying "How do you double the value of a Trabant? Fill it with gas!" The second one, notice "des Trabant" -- that's genetive so it makes it "What is the Sports Version of the Trabant? A pair of Nikes in the trunk."

Quite honestly: I would clearly disagree if the students were in the habit of working outside of class -- but I know a few secondary school teachers who are now teaching this way because only 10% of their students were doing any homework at all, and they found that the results were better this way than with lecturing and having the students not do any practice problems. I would believe this is also why it varies by district, depending on parent/student culture.

Why does she hate Saxon? Personally I can sympathize with her because even though I'm pretty good at math, I would rather gouge my eyeballs out with a fork than study anything from Saxon. Really.

Calvin, YOU were a blue light special at K-mart!

Where does he make his errors? Are they careless, sloppy, "Oh yeah, duh" errors or conceptual errors?

Beautiful

Yep. My SO has a serious autoimmune arthritis. When it flares up, he will quite literally wake up in the morning, take a painkiller and wait for it to work before he can go to the bathroom to urinate. If he couldn't take anything stronger than Tylenol or Ibuprofen, he'd need a full-time carer.

The fat one, the skinny one, the one with the birthmark, the one with the crooked nose, the one with the slightly lighter skin, the one with the unusual eyes, the one missing a tooth, the one with the rounder face, ... It's much harder to see differences in races other than your own without practice. After spending quite a bit of time teaching minority students from urban areas I'm quite good at immediately telling differences and it always shocks them. :P