:iagree: I like the idea of pairing the complementary classes in that manner.

Almost certainly a literal translation of Frau, which *does* mean woman, but is also German for Mrs. Blame the translation. :P

Sure. But people who don't think it's right have the right to be upset and take their business elsewhere.

It is spam.

This is an anecdote -- not data:P My friend who became an atheist in university told me once, while at the bar: "They told me that if you didn't believe in the literal truth of Genesis, you might as well not believe in anything at all, because it invalidated the whole Bible." When he decided (no flames, please -- his decision) that it wasn't literally true, well ... he didn't believe in anything at all.

Sign of the Beaver?

I'm barefoot whenever I can get away with it.

Even if this is a relatively friendly forum, it's still public. I'd recommend editing your name to Jane Doe or something.

Is he struggling, but getting it eventually with a decent score? Or is his work generally sub-85%? In neither case would I hurry through both together. In the first case, I'd continue with either alg or geo. In the second case, I'd be strongly considering redoing algebra 1, either with the same program or another. Algebra 1 is so foundational to all further mathematics that it's imperative to thoroughly understand it. If he doesn't really 'get' algebra 1, it's going to make the further math classes incredibly more difficult.

My mother still has well over 20,000. I've only got about 1,000, but when SO and I finally finish merging our books I expect that to double.

If he's leaning towards a science major, I'd take precalculus as well as college algebra, for sure.

Different teachers/different books say different things about negative exponents in answers. In the algebra classes I took, it was permissible. Certainly a student should always know how to eliminate negative exponents, if needed. I'm not sure it's a reason to eliminate an entire program.

Wow! That's the chem book I used when I took intro chem at the community college. What they used it for was their 'chem for people who didn't have high school chem' class, so in essence, HS chem. imo it was a fairly decent book.

Yes, I used it myself in about 3rd grade. It was a splendid initial foundation and made pre-algebra and algebra very easy, imho.

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We made a lot of venison stroganoff :D

1984 Chevy Celebrity Station Wagon favourite car, though, was the ancient ford F-150.

FWIW: Both of my (homeschooled) brothers transferred to Cornell U(another excellent university in NY), one after a year at a state uni in Wisconsin, the other after 2 years at a community college in NY. In both cases, a majority of the credits taken transferred, although they didn't accept courses like College Algebra. Although right now he's sure he wants to go to Columbia, wanting the transfer credits might change his mind when he gets closer to 17.

I would worry less about whether the credits will transfer and more about challenging him where he is. If he's bored and sullen in high school due to taking course work that he deems worthless and a waste of his time, he probably won't excel as he would have to to get into where he wants to go. FWIW: I would not expect precalculus to transfer for credit to an elite university and an astronomy course may be dubious as well. Astronomy without a physics prerequisite is usually (not always) intended as a general education course rather than a course for science majors. I would also note that even if they do not accept the courses as credit, they may very well grant course approval for them (this is one thing you should ask), so that he wouldn't need to retake, say, calculus, even if he didn't get credit for it. He could then take more advanced courses in his major instead, which would put him in an advantageous position for graduate school.

Yes. Since y = -x + 3 AND y = -2, and they are the same y, -x + 3 = -2. Another way to work it is if you subtract the first equation from the second, you get y-y = -2 - (-x + 3).

Check with the university. At my undergrad, they banned calculators in the calculus classes completely, at my grad, they allowed non-graphing only. It is fairly common to not allow graphing calculators because of the text storage capacities.

This is what I have more commonly seen as well. It is often the case, however, that one has College Algebra/Trig and then Precalculus. It will be almost the same course material between colleges, but the order may vary. Depending on what the Precalculus course covers (ours covers trigonometry from scratch -- college algebra only does algebra and logarithms really), an introduction to trigonometry may or may not be a prerequisite. For this reason, if my algebra class didn't include trigonometry, I'd make sure that the precalculus course assumed no prior knowledge.

A cow whose udder is almost empty is probably almost at the end of her lactation. Cows are generally dried off 2 months before the next calf is due, to give her a break to recharge before the next.

I took it in 6th-8th, did well enough. I chose to go to a program out of Purdue (GERI, maybe?) instead of CTY, but it was an excellent experience. I was also pretty pumped to hear that I was already scoring higher than x% of college seniors. :P

Moise and Downs?