Kinsa's right. Unless you've gone to a 4th edition algebra 1 and 2 (which I understand have had the geometry removed, but I have no personal experience), you shouldn't need the geometry course. Saxon homeschool is still selling the 3rd edition.

I think it's fine. I'd ignore any 'technology' projects, and ignore any instructions on use of a slide rule -- stuff like that.

Modern biology texts use a lot more chemistry than they used to, but a solid middle school physical science course will be plenty.

Well, it could be that he's a vicious jerk trying to get back at his ex, has grasped at every other straw and is now going for this one. It could also be that the girl has started visiting him, telling him he doesn't love her because they differ over religion and lecturing him about how he's going to burn in hell. And really we don't have any information whatsoever, since information is either going to be filtered through the mother's lawyer or the father's lawyer.

If you finish functions, logs, and trig, I personally would have no compunctions about calling it precalculus. Matrices and conic sections are usually taught from scratch in further classes, as not everyone gets them in high school precalculus, and even fewer understand them. At my grad school, we skipped the chapter on matrices and most of the chapter on vectors (because they teach vectors from scratch in physics and matrices from scratch later on). At my undergrad, we skipped the chapter on conic sections and most of the chapter on vectors (they were taught in calculus).

No, the Uncle Eric books really aren't balanced. Unfortunately, I don't have a good book to recommend in its place. We always used current events, talking, 'why might they believe that', etc. I would also add that many, many people I know don't follow either liberal/conservative party line strictly and aren't quite sure what to call themselves, being somewhat in both camps.

Wait, what? So if your dh tells them they should go to college, they should *refuse* to submit to his authority, in order to submit to authority? This one really, really doesn't make sense!

LaTeX is really great but has a bit of a learning curve. The worksheet generator is nice if it has what you need but doesn't work so well if you want to do something far more specific. I don't like word's equation editor but if you only need a few worksheets it'll do okay. If you're going to be doing a lot of worksheets it might be worth your while to learn to use LaTeX.

Another: If the alternating sum of the digits is divisible by 11, then the number is divisible by 11. Example: 123456789 1-2+3-4+5-6+7-8+9 = 5, which is not divisible by 11, so 123456789 is not divisible by 11. 1358024679 1-3+5-8+0-2+4-6+7-9 = -11, which is divisible by 11 (even though it's negative), so 1358024679 is divisible by 11.

I am just rereading my Pratchetts now :D

It's a typo, it should read 9+8=17+3=20+4=24+5=29 She is adding up all the digits to get 29.

The right-hand side and left-hand side were referring to 73*89 + 39 = 6536, where the right-hand side is 6536 and the left-hand side is 73*89 + 39. Checking that 73*89 + 39 = 6536 is true is the same as checking that 6536/89 is 73 with a remainder of 39 -- they are just different ways of saying the same thing. But it is much easier to verify the multiplication. Finding the check number for 73*89 + 39 is a two-step process -- first, find the check number for 73*89 (it's 8), then add the check number for 39 (which is 3, so together they make 11 -- but since 11 is bigger than 9, the check number reduces to 2).

I'd do the stewardship throughout (as others said) and choose statistics for a senior year course. If she's doing well in math by then, she could choose AP/CC which might satisfy a gen ed requirement. Otherwise, a high school course would be a good introduction and quite useful.

College Algebra follows Intermediate, then Trig comes after. I correlated the chapters once (don't have time to look for the post now) but basically the trig book is a selection of chapters from the precalc book.

Meh, sorry. I had separate parts 'for addition, for multiplication, for subtraction, for division' -- I just only listed an example for division because I'd already seen good examples for addition, subtraction, multiplication from everyone else. Division is more complicated and doesn't work directly. If what I wrote seems nonsensical, don't worry. I probably should go back and delete it anyway.

Another interesting fact: If we worked in base 8, casting out sevens would work the same way.

Ooh, I also forgot -- Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede.

We usually lime. It does a fairly decent job, you do have to clean the wet out first for optimal results. Other people have said they use pine-sol, just for odor reduction. We've used that for delicing chickens but not for the barn.

Cobwebs: We really don't worry about them much. They're not really that unhygenic and since spiders eat flies, we encourage the spider population in the barn. Smell: Is it urine? We've had good results with simply neutralizing the pH for urine.

I don't use loaf pans at all -- I shape it into french bread-like loaves and bake it on a standard pan.

The books are here, if anyone wanted to get a look at them: http://www.babylon.k12.ny.us/PDF/integrated_algebra/Integrated_Algebra_1.pdf http://www.babylon.k12.ny.us/PDF/algebra%202/Algebra%202%20and%20Trigonometry.pdf

Rifles for Watie. Puck of Pook's Hill, and later, the sequel Rewards and Fairies. I preferred the former as a child, and the latter as an adult -- many of the stories I simply was not mature enough to understand earlier. My Side of the Mountain.

What diet are you following that recommends <250 calories for breakfast? Your breakfast ought to be decent-sized, you've been fasting all night.

Do you want to go for you or for her? Because honestly, the last thing anyone in the ICU needs is a family feud. If I told someone not to come to the hospital, and they came anyway -- I'd get pretty angry, and it might make me *worse*.

Yes. I'm the same. I work well on a far higher fat diet than many, my weight is high but my body fat %, waistline, blood pressure, cholesterol, and every other measure are well within normal.