The reason "I" choose ipad over other is that I wanted the Barton Reading and Spelling app specific to the Barton dyslexic reading program. She made the app for the ipad and said that it would not be on android for the foreseeable future. I agree that many apps are made for i-devices first, but I don't know of anything that would keep me from getting a regular tablet for typical homeschooling.

I only applied for National Extended Time, which as others have said is a little more than time and a half but you can allocate the time anyway you want.

I give an English grade of which my Center for Lit class is part of it. I give an A for the literature discussion as long as my student reads the book and discusses as he is capable.

I would definitely recommend starting with AoPS prealgebra over algebra. I think it is okay for most students to skip 6a/6b to go to prealgebra. I've done all the above. My oldest skipped from SM 5b to AoPS Algebra (before the prealgebra book came out) - he's a math wiz, so he tolerated this transition and it was his choice. My second went from SM 5b to AoPS prealgebra. This was a hard transition, but tolerable for a good math student. My third did SM 5 and some of 6, did Derek Owens prealgebra as a bridge to AoPS and is now doing AoPS prealgebra. It all depends on how quickly your student picks up math topics and how easily. Also, some students just aren't ready for the level of AoPS.

My plan was going to be to use Thomas Sowell's Economics book alongside Timothy Tayor's Great Course videos, however, my son is doing AP economics through PA homeschoolers which uses this free online textbook with Timothy Taylor's Great Course vdeos: http://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/economics-principles-v1.0/index.html

It certainly goes faster with the answers. If my student is correct, then I don't worry about it. If they have it in a different format or wrong, then I work through the problem to see where they are off.

Yes, he will send the solutions to all the homework as well as multiple versions of the tests and exams. I've done this with more than one of his courses now. It was embedded as an attachment to one of my introduction emails and I almost missed it as I went to email him saying I hadn't received the solutions. You might go back to the original emails he sent you and make sure you don't already have the solutions before asking.

My daughter did DO prealgebra (half-price option with me grading). He sends all the solutions and then she just watched the vidoes and did the work as I graded everything. It was very good.

I think stats is a very important course and becoming more so for many degrees. However, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it in the place of the traditional math sequence. If you can add it to your course load, then great; otherwise I would be in favor of not skipping precalc and calculus. My oldest took AP stats alongside calc BC - he's a math guy. I was going to have my second take stats between algebra 2 and precalc, but then I decided it was better for him to take the precalc before college board testing and wait on stats. He'll probably double up on math and take it alongside calculus. As a physician, I find many doctors do not understand the basics of statistics. They are expected to read and interpret all sorts of medical studies, but it's hard to make sense of the numbers without the statistics knowledge. They just have to trust that the summary of the study is accurate and not misleading.

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It would never occur to me to clean my child's dorm room, nor have I ever heard of or seen anyone else do it. Not saying that it's a bad thing, just wouldn't occur to me.

I only use unweighted. Some schools have said that they take everyone's grades and weight them to the college's standards rather than the high school's standard.

Love scratch. Kids need to be able to read to do the programming - hard for my dyslexic. I often see that the "older" end of the age is early teen, but my 15 year old still does some things in scratch intermittently and it's quite impressive some of the logic and complexity he can put together. Mostly, I'd say it's fantastic for younger kids to learn programming logic without the details of a programming language.

Policy at my home is that since "I" pay for the classes, I get access to the login information so that I can monitor the class. It's just assumed that mom will have access anytime I want it since I'm ultimately in charge of orchestrating their homeschool education.

If not struggling, we do one section per day. I sit down with my student and work through the teaching exercises together and then have my student do the exercise on his/her own. My daughter - I'm actually sitting with her as she does the exercises as well. Generally we do the review problems over several days. Videos - I often do the videos alongside the teaching sections. Sometimes we never do the videos. Other days - just videos and alcumus if mom doesn't have time to teach. Alcumus - I generally run this about a chapter behind where we are in the book and use it for review. It is hard to do it concurrently with the same chapter as alcumus intermittanly throws in really hard problems the student is simply not ready for. We don't do alcumus every day. There is not a right or wrong way to do this. My gifted math student never did any videos.

My kids have not taken that particular Brave Writer class, but peer feedback has only been a required part of one class and not any of the others we have done. The papers in all the classes have been publicly posted so that other students can read and comment if they wish, but mostly just so that you can see the teacher comments on everyone's writing. As far as checking on my students, I just log in as my student and take a look around - read and print the assignments, read the teacher comments, and gain knowledge so that I can ask more intelligent questions of my kids. In the classes for younger kids (elementary/middle school) sometimes BW actually gives both a student and a parent login. If you can't access your child's login information, then you could email BW and ask if you could get a parent login password so that you can monitor the class.

It says somewhere on the Barton website (not in the specific levels) to hold off until the end of level 3 or 4 (I don't remember which - probably 4). You want to build on the pattern of sounding out the words and not guessing based upon context or pictures. As stated above, the order is not anything similar to "beginning readers" as silent e is not introduced until level 6 and vowel-r words in level 7. I would defiantly hold off for now, but I'd also encourage you to call Susan Barton about any specific questions as she is great at answering them.

I agree with Kai - if the provider is going to provide a transcript then go with the credit assigned. If you are assigning credit, I would not go above the amount of credit the provider states it is, but feel free to lower it. I think the amount of work done for an English credit is often on the high side so I take my 1 credit Center for Lit course, my multiple partial credit Brave Writer courses and whatever else I assign and lump it all together as a 1 credit English course. In my course description I might specify how many credits outside providers claim it to be or just ignore it.

Colleges defiantly want to know senior year classes and often specifically ask about them as they are not always listed on the transcript. I do as others and list them on the transcript making it clear that they are 12 grade or in progress.

I'd encourage you to make sure her algebra is rock solid. Everything beyond is built upon this foundation.

My kids love Learning Ally - use it mostly for Sonlight books and other fun readers right now. The voices bother me, but not my kids. Haven't tried it much yet for textbooks.

I agree that it might be worthwhile looking further into why reading is hard - Dyslexia? Vision issues? Meanwhile, I'd encourage you to find some audio versions of books so that the work of reading is lessened and maybe he can just focus on learning and discussing. Continue to work on reading separately.

Derek Owens is a good computer option - starts with prealgebra. AoPS is great for a bright kid that needs to be more challenged in math - Alcumus is free and gives you a taste of AoPS style problems. I agree that she needs to finish out elementary math before moving to either of these options. I also agree that MM is boring.

I am including course descriptions for my senior year courses.

I have the same issue with Forester. AoPS Precalculus doesn't use a calculator - not sure if you want to jump into AoPS here, but it's possible.