Yes. Yes yes yes. Sometimes I do vocab drills and memory-only quizzes in my classes. I tell my students exactly what will be on them. I didn't realize I had to do this but they are doing so much better on their other tests since I started doing these in the week before tests. And another thing that needs to be explained is that studying math is a lot more like studying a foreign language or music or dance, you simply must practice on a regular basis.

Definitely should be doing logs and trig with a calculator other than for certain specific exact values (for example, your kid should NOT need to use a calculator to evaluate log 1 or sin 0). There is no point in doing these with tables. The exact values I'd expect would be anything with a ref angle of 0 30 45 60 90 for trig, anything that's a power of the base for logarithms. They should have some idea of how to estimate (for example, ln 2 < 1 since 2 < e) but that's pretty much enough. There is also absolutely no point in extracting roots by hand although knowing how to estimate is a very valuable skill (for example, sqrt 27.2 is 5 and a bit), and the same with horribly complicated multistep long division. If it's 2349023509346 divided by 32423, really, why. No.

I messaged someone once and asked "Just out of curiosity, was that you and your kids I met a month ago at _____ ?" I was right, too! But I didn't realize in time to say something. Her kids were awesome though, I gotta say, that's why I remembered when I saw her sig line :D

I do think aops might be a little challenging but ymmv. Do you have the money to do a class through Jann in TX or something like that, where you can get an extra explanation for your ds? Or possibly a local university where they have a grad student or upper-division undergrad, talented at explaining, who will moonlight as a tutor? If he is smart but scattered and you are smart but scattered in a different direction, it is going to be hard to get your scatters to line up with each other.

Was this measurement earlier in the morning than you're used to being measured?

It is quite possible to enter as a junior and still not be able to graduate in two more years if inappropriate classes are chosen for the intended major. For example, someone who wants to major in math who has done nothing higher than college algebra just cannot complete the degree program in two years. Believe it or not, we receive several transfer students each year who have this issue -- whether they have been misadvised, changed their mind about their major, or did not listen to their advisor, I am not sure -- and they are extremely disappointed to learn that they will need at least 7 semesters more to get their degree. But they will still have junior standing because of their credits. So it is not a lie per se, but not the whole truth. This is a lot less of an issue for a student who has been adequately advised (for example, no matter what the degree program says, and no matter where they intend to transfer, someone who intends to major in math should complete the calculus sequence at their CC if they intend to graduate on time) or a student who chooses a less sequential major. For an engineering major where one class is required to transfer and a different, very similar class is required for the degree program, I'd be trying to straighten this out by contacting the specific college, including the engineering department (they will probably know how incoming transfer students have resolved this in the past) as engineering is one of those sequential majors where you really need to transfer with the right classes.

Really sadly, if we reported on every time some lunatic religious extremist gave a talk about executing some group of people for their "sin", we'd never have time to talk about anything else.

I've had this one (amazon tells me I purchased it in april 2012). It's required one battery change and works perfectly. I gave it to a family member because I got one with more bells and whistles but this is an excellent, reliable, reasonably priced scale. It is working great for them. https://www.amazon.com/EatSmart-Precision-Capacity-Recognition-Technology/dp/B004L6NTHU/ref=sr_1_1_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1465821034&sr=1-1&keywords=eatsmart+bodyfat+scale I've also had this one since September 2013. It has not yet required a battery change and works well. I do not know how accurate the bodyfat calculation is, but it is within 2% of what I got for myself with the military bodyfat calculation and with a machine at the gym, so it is working fine for me. Honestly though, I could have saved the money and just gone with the military calculation and been close enough. Both of them need to be placed on a stable surface to work (tile floors are not friendly) but after that work great.

My family used to get me all kinds of things I needed in pink because they knew I didn't care for it but my frugality wouldn't let me throw it out. It was funny -- until an ex got in on it and then after the breakup everything pink reminded me of him. But my family immediately stopped doing it after that.

If you can afford it, a professional tutor may be useful at least to come up with a game plan for moving forward.

It is much better for his future success to do algebra when he will be able to understand it, rather than be pushed through with a fragmented understanding of the basics. So I would definitely continue pre-algebra -- if you felt the program was ok but he just didn't get far enough, just continue -- through the summer, too. Working on math does need to be one of his top priorities, though. He needs to conscientiously work until he is no longer a struggler -- he does not have to be a whiz, but to pursue engineering he does need to move from struggler to adequate. For most students this will come with extensive practice.

If you want to give something, I suggest a heartfelt thank-you about how wonderful this art is for your kid.

It is one of my top choices for recommending to people. It works particularly well for people who tend to get fixated on numbers. If you do this I suggest putting an 's' on your calendar every time you have an s day. this iwll make it easier to keep track if (hypothetically) you dont' lose weight -- you can see 'ohyeah that week had 5 s days no wonder i'm holding water.

Some people do better with a hard reset like Whole 30. Some people do better with picking one specific thing like "I will eat x cups of vegetables per day" or "I will not drink my calories in sugar" and focusing on that. Know yourself. Some changes I made in the past that I'm very happy with were dramatically increasing intake of vegetables, completely eliminating full-sugar soda, drastically reducing snacking, and greatly reducing intake of processed grains/added sugars other than things that I bake myself made with flour. This summer my goal is to experiment with less processed flours/reduced flours and see if I can deliver acceptable baked goods. It's actually challenging because so much out there is written for people who are going paleo or gluten-free and want to eliminate wheat completely rather than just decrease. I like doing this best during the summer because I visit a friend who has chickens and a goat, who are happy to eat the failures.

Pork and vegetable stirfry-type dish, with cornbread on the side instead of served over rice. Or if you don't have enough ingredients for that, porkburgers, carrots however you like, and hot buttered cornbread.

Is the cornbread already baked or is it enough cornbread mix for a 9x12 pan?

Indeed. Also precalculus is a class that is usually taken by students who are going to take calculus and/or algebra-based physics, whereas college algebra is frequently taken by everyone. Institutions are therefore under a lot of pressure to increase passing rates in college algebra, and also a lot of pressure to accept students into college algebra regardless of placement scores, which frequently causes reductions in content covered. This forces more content into precalculus in order to cover sufficient material to have students actually prepared for calculus. Some other places have split precalculus into two three-credit classes (pre-calculus algebra and pre-calculus trigonometry), both of which are required to proceed to calculus.

I would consider it unlikely that it is to increase tuition paid, but rather that it is to increase the number of students who pass the class without removing content from the class. Many students do not engage in material much outside of class time, and it is no longer acceptable to have high rates of non-completion even if it is due to students not working outside of class. So the university can either make the class easier or give more time so that the students can work in class under supervision. It kinda sucks for the kids who would have done well under the old system, but they are outnumbered by the ones who wouldn't.

Do you know what text they're using and the scope/sequence? Because I would say the easiest way to make sure he's on a level with everyone else who's done algebra 2/trig is to get the book they use and do the trig chapters (they are usually separated so that a school that wants to do algebra 2 w/o trig can do it).

Cracked for a week I don't think I would.

Honestly, I'd be worried if you did feel the *need*. There's a difference between feeling the need and feeling the want. It's fun to have some once in a while to help relax. I also like the taste of the ones I drink.

I think AOPS + practice problems from Stewart as needed (it's very topical so easy to find extra practice) would be a better fit than just doing Stewart. Edit: Since I just saw your post, I wouldn't assign problems as a prophylactic measure, but assign them if she seems to be forgetting basic rules. So if you can see that she's struggling with working chain rule problems, go find the chain rule section in Stewart and work problems until it makes better sense. But don't just assign them assuming she'll need the practice; many clever students don't.

Oh no no no you shouldn't be trying to do every problem in Stewart. At most I would do every other problem. The 2nd edition is fine. Some sections may take longer than others and some problems may take longer than others. But if your DD has been doing AOPS, Stewart is probably going to be pretty easy and a lot more busywork. Is there a reason you want to move away?

I don't leave it out because it makes it take longer to butter something. If it's sitting there soft, spreadable, and delicious, I can eat way too much of it :D I take out the pat I plan to use and let it sit on a plate for a while.

Yes, I would use them. I wouldn't even think twice. But one habit that I have with eggs is that I always, always break each egg into a bowl and look at it before I dump it into whatever I'm making. I have very occasionally found bad eggs (in the store, actually) and it is so frustrating to have an entire cake ruined because the egg went in and was rotten. It's also nice if you mess up and break the shell in. I recommend this practice in general.