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I think the easiest way will be to use your computer. You want the audio to be error-free.
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If you you worry about the professor not actually using the book listed as required. The student can always email the professor.
In college, I often asked for a syllabus to be e-mailed to me. I would casually read my textbooks ahead of time, and it made the first half of the semester stress-free. You can also ask if an earlier edition would be acceptable. Also, if only a small % of the book is used, there is a certain percentage that you can legally photocopy the book. For literature books, I would buy them used from the bookstore, read them, and return them for a full refund before the 4th day of classes.
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Mensa gives one of the standard IQ tests. I think the cost is around $25.
I know until recently the only results they were able to give was an invitation to join. This was because of a lawsuit saying the proctors weren't psychologists so the test results weren't accurate. Really, it was that Mensa was cutting into a high-profit business for them. But, Mensa won the lawsuit and can give the numbers.
I don't know if the test Mensa gives is one that is accepted by Davidson, but for $25 it is worth a look.
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I've printed a list and taken it into the local HalfPriced books. They seem to have a min and max for kid's books. So the larger more expensive books seem to be a steal there, and for the smaller cheaper ones it is better online.
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My suggestions aren't really curriculum.
The book "Games for Math" and the Critical Thinking Mathematical Reasoning books
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The Ender's Game series from Audible. It has different readers, and they change just enough.
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Even as an adult I struggle with this. I can't even remember the last book I began and didn't finish, even when I could tell it was junk. And I'm super careful before starting a series, because I KNOW I'll buy the whole thing to read to the end, even if it stinks. It's like a tic :lol:-
My all time favorite email was from my best friend. The body of the email was empty and the subject was "I hate you".
A week before, I'd insisted she borrow my books-on-cassette of "The Gunslinger", the first of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
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I actually tried to throw away a book this weekend. (Truly astounding)
I had bought a milk crate filled with kids books at a garage sale. (It was a fabulous garage sale. They were moving to Hawaii, so they were selling stuff they would have normally kept) Included was a book meant for a leapfrog thing. I innocently "read" it. Oh my!, that annoying. To liven it up, I apparently made some amusing noises the first time, and now DD gets hysterical that I don't make the SAME noises, and I have no idea what noises they were.
Unfortunately, the trash was full, and I didn't jam it in there far enough, so DD rescued it and said "Don't throw away this book".
ETA: there had been some amazing books in the milk crate.I think it was her "keep for future grandkids" book collection.
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I've seen several incompetent doctors. Before I had more ... spine I even put up with it during the visit. Often you can't tell until they do something ...off.
Doesn't mean I am incompetent. So, I don't think anyone was saying you are incompetent.
I would expect a doctor to skim the chart before the office visit. I would also expect to not be asked the same thing twice.
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Oooohhhh, this looks soooo cool. Back in the dark ages when I was a child, my parents got a monthly subscription to something like this. I absolutely loved it, and my parents still have a few of the items around the house. Then the idiots repeated after a year, so we had to stop.
So, if I do it with her, is it really appropriate for a just turned 3-year-old?
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Thank you, I will look into these.
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I think the primary difference is people who love this idea and people who hate it is between those who see education as a journey, v. those who see it as a destination. Personally, I can't understand wanting to specialize so young, and think that even if a child is accelerated there is soooooo much that they can explore and learn before they have to go off to college and start thinking about a job. But I know that other people look at it the opposite way: why would anyone want to waste time on things they don't really need for life?
I think it's just two very different core educational philosophies, and never the twain shall meet. I personally would not under any circumstances encourage or probably even let (never say never) my kids go to college before they were 18. I'd like them to go to a solid, residential liberal arts or science based college, where they spend 4 years living on campus with peers and working with professors as adults.
I, too, see it as a journey. I just see college as where it gets interesting. If my child started college at 12 (living at home, there is still many choices), and then took 8 years to finish (because so many courses were audited). I would OK with that.
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Oh, I concur with this statement. I argue all of the time on these boards that not everyone wants to "be STEM".
I just believe that society has had an enormous case of "mission creep" when it comes to degrees. The BA/BS has supplanted the high school diploma, the MA/MS has supplanted the BA/BS; then everyone has to have CEUs, never-ending certificate programs and recertifications... It never stops.
I have my own whack theory of how it happened, but I'm not going to type it on an iPad, LOL.
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I remember hearing a story from San Jose during the major boom time.
Programmers were in such high demand, that companies weren't checking credentials. They would hire people, and then if they didn't work out THEN they would look for lies on the resume/application and fire based on that.
So, people that took a few programming classes in college, would say they had a Computer Science degree. People that actually HAD a computer science B.S. were saying that they had a M.S. or PhD.
PhD became known as "Probably has degree".
(Your mention of degree creep reminded me of that)
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I don't think you are off-base, and I find it sad.
My personal theory is that the average level of the books are to reassure the parents that their kids are "doing fine", and therefore the school must be "doing fine".
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I've been thinking about this some more. Their kids might very well have started out with a normal IQ. We know that IQ isn't the one-number-for-life that people think it is. Math, for example, if you work hard at it, and work lots of practice problems, you will appear math-smart. If your average kid worked hard on their academics, I think they could do college at 12.
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I stopped discussing DD's milestones with anyone except the relatives when she was about 1.5 years old. A good friend of mine has a boy 2-3 months younger than DD. (He was born premature, so depending on whether you count from expected delivery date or real delivery date) So, of course, DD did stuff before friend's DS. My friend used DD as a personal "What-to-expect", which is logical. I have a cousin 9 months older that my parents watched for the same reason. Eventually I noticed that friend wasn't interested in discussing milestones, and that it distressed her. It was then I noticed that her DS was quite a bit behind mt DD. I don't want to make her feel bad, so I don't say anything.
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You all could listen to the Michael Thomas CD's in the car.
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I used to snipe all the time. I got pretty good at doing it myself.
Then there was a listing these amazing new hiking boots that were the model I was saving for (just under $300 new).
I was at the computer when the auction was 15 minutes to end, and I piddled around until it was time to snipe.
I got to the auction with about a minute left, and watched the clock until the perfect time to snipe.
I sniped
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to find out that my keyboard had somehow become disconnected and I couldn't enter my bid.
So, some lucky duck got my boots for $17.56.
Now I enter a bid and ignore until I get the "You won" email.
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I will check out the websites mentioned. Thanks.
I do not remotely push computer time. I never mention it, and I frequently say No. We do have AAR-Pre and she likes to do it, but I have to suggest that as an activity for us to do. I mentioned the lap aspect, because it might make the computer time more attractive, which wasn't my attention. We started out on the free Starfall, then ABC Mouse, then I got the full Starfall.
I mention her "drifting off" because I wonder if she gets bored with it completely she might stop ever asking for computer time. That might be a good thing, or not, still undecided. I can see some advantages to the computer, though. By not allowing her to do wrong things, it is gentle guidance without upsetting corrections. For example, the matching game only allows two cards to be up. When we play a matching game she will sometimes get focused on looking for a particular card that she'll hold onto one and then flip the others over one at a time. Then Mommy interrupting ruins the fun. The library has laminated learning games, DD wasn't getting the patterning idea, so I avoided those. But, a couple of the pattern mazes in Starfall, and she got it.
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My daughter loves her "ABC on the computer" time. I was ambivalent about her having computer time at her young age, so I put her in my lap when she asked for it. My thought was I'd still be interacting with her, so it wouldn't be mindless.
We've used Starfall and ABCMouse. She is starting to get a bored with both. I'm not sure whether to let her be bored and therefore drift away it. Or, look around for something she would enjoy more.
What have you guys used and what did you think of it?
For example, I think Starfall does a great job teaching the letters, but then it makes a leap and seems to skip the next step.
I like ABCMouse, but it does seem to have lots of the same thing over and over. Plus, the stories read by that woman in a childish falsetto is seriously annoying. They should have just gotten a 7-year old to read those stories. It also annoys my daughter that to follow the learning path she sometimes has to repeat something you did earlier. Like one weekend she was sick, but she still wanted her ABC time. So, we cuddled while doing songs and books on ABCMouse. Then when we went back to the learning path, she was annoyed that they wanted her to do them again, and went off the learning path. Which meant that some of the stuff was over her head.
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I recently bought the book "Games for Writing" and I am really enjoying it.
The same author also has ones for Reading, Math and Learning.
My library has the ones for Reading and Writing but I think I might buy them all so I don't have to return them. (That happens about once every 5 years for me)
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And skipped middle school. They basically sent their kids after elementary school.
Haven't I read that your average homeschooled kid is working two years ahead at the end of 6th grade? I think that is where the middle school went.
With a bit more acceleration than normal, and a stress on important skills like writing papers, I can see this do-able for the top ... 15% of kids. Maybe more. Any kid taking honors and AP classes in high school, could have probably gone this route. I remember AP as being more difficult than the corresponding college class.
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I thought high school was largely a waste of time, and college was where I truly learned. So, I think it is a great idea. It isn't that the family skipped college, they basically skipped high school. That is something I would love for my daughter.
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One thing that makes the question tough is what would I have bought anyway? I can totally see myself buying attribute blocks, the Building Thinking Skills, Math. Reasoning books and a zoo membership even if we weren't homeschooling. But. maybe if I weren't so in love with teaching my child, then those wouldn't thrill me so much.
Reading Eggs for $49.95
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Thank you fro starting this thread. Particularly the mention of the extended trial period. My daughter is young to be reading, but she really really really really wants to. We started the trial period this last weekend. We got to the 7th egg and then she got frustrated with the beginning sounds area. If she wants to do it, I'll let her. But, I don't want to put in a lot of money and then have it be too hard for her. I do really love that things must be done in order.