This is really pretty odd. Were you using a 'stock' password that you use on other internet sites, or a guessable one like mother's maiden name, that someone who knew you could have guessed? Maybe someone who knew you from high-school?

Any munchy finger foods that she likes? Protein bars, nuts, etc? Some kind of dried fruit, which is still carby but better than ramen? Protein-enriched cookies?

Those wanting to 'get chemistry under their belts' are often quite delusional about how they're doing in the class and/or satisfied with a C. There are many students in math/quantitative science who believe they're doing fine until the exam, whereupon they complain it was too hard because it was harder to do the exam than it was to do the homework with the book and solutions manual open. This is not at all an unreasonable amount of time for her to be spending, especially since you indicated she has to work harder at math.

Your DD's college teachers will thank you too, when it's one fewer student they don't have to convince that magical extra credit just doesn't exist anymore :P

I would eat it without a second thought.

If you're worried about her seeing that you've unfriended her and going over the edge because of that -- make a special group for her, Obnoxious Twits or something like that -- then set it so that that group can't see your wall posts etc.

This is the first song I ever heard of his. I still love it.

Nice new name :D Whether you get a double major or a double degree completely depends on the school. Some of them will permit double-degrees, some of them indicate a second major, and some of them simply don't permit an outside major (although you can always do the coursework and note that it was completed). Ask the school. With regards to the double major though, both will show on transcript if it's permitted. I didn't double major but had a triple minor, and all of them show on mine.

Why not (as others have said) do the AOPS Discrete Math (number theory/counting) courses in 7th grade, geometry in 8th, then she'd be right on track with the others who took algebra in 7th and geometry in 8th without having to repeat work she already knows?

I think you should write these as columns and publish them. I'm sitting here and my abs hurt from laughing so hard. Not so much because of the situation, but your way of describing it.

I really do understand the barking. It's frustrating. My mother's neighbor has really loud obnoxious music. But. The time to complain about it was BEFORE shooting the dog. Complaining now will probably result in the neighbor filing charges if it hasn't already been done. Furthermore, it's just not okay to damage property because it's annoying.

I am learning right now, actually. I downloaded TeXnicCenter and after I got it running it's pretty user-friendly. It's got buttons to click on like Word's equation editor that will enter the command you need into the document, so if you forget the command for something you can just hunt for the picture instead of looking it up in a table. It's not taking that much extra time.

Does it count if I have an extra bookcase to display my collection of plastic horses? :P The books are piled on top of the case. They stack better than horses :D

Yep. As soon as I walked away I'd have been on the phone to the police department. If she does call the police, I'd advise against telling the police 'but her dogs bark', as that's going to just make it seem like you think it's okay to damage someone else's property if it's annoying you.

I know at that age and younger I read many books with lots of sex scenes in them (I only really remember my mother confiscating one book, ever) and just sort of skimmed them. There are a lot of books (clan of the cave bear, anne mccaffrey's pern series) that I went back and read later and said 'HOLY COW!' -- I had barely noticed it.

To emphasize that addition and subtraction are really the same operation -- that subtraction is just the addition of the negative. It's obvious here but when it's something like 3 - (3 - 4) or maybe 3 - (x^2 - 15x - 22) they'll need to be able to simplify that easily and naturally.

Awesome, what's she taking? :)

This has actually come up in a problem going around my facebook the last few days. The problem is 2-2x2+22, and many, many people are correctly doing 2-4+22, then since "addition before subtraction", they are incorrectly trying to add 4 and 22.

I had these as well (both Burns and Gardner) and I will enthusiastically second the recommendation for developing math skills in precocious children :)

For college classes: If I can do it in my head, I assume that a student may be able to do so also, and won't deduct points for lack of work. However, no partial credit will be awarded for incorrect answers when work is not shown. If I cannot do it in my head, work needs to be shown.

In order to produce hens, you're producing roosters. You either need to keep an equal number of productive animals as non-productive animals (and keep them separately, or your hens will die from *ahem* overuse), or do something with the males. In order to produce milk, you're producing calves, including both male and female offspring. Again, you'll need to do something with the males, and pet cows are a LOT more expensive than pet chickens. I am not going to get into the treatment issue, because there are farms which treat better or worse. But if you believe that causing another creature to be killed is bad, dairy and eggs still do so, albeit indirectly.

Yep. That being said, given it's an out-of-context worksheet, I'd make my best guess that the teacher really meant simplify if I couldn't find values anywhere :P

Are you sure that it didn't tell you what 'n' was in a previous problem or something? The reason I'm asking is that I have always seen 'evaluate' used when you were asked to find a specific value, and 'simplify' used when they mean to use the distributive property to expand something. However, if this is in a chapter on the distributive property, I'd assume that's what they meant.

The problem (imo) is that if 98 is easy to achieve, it means that there's very little that can challenge a bright kid in any way, shape, or form. I'd just rather see the exams more difficult AND the grade boundaries lower, to teach kids that it's okay to not be able to solve something quickly, that there's always more you can learn, etc. But that's strictly my opinion.