I agree that's it's worthwhile to start with 3A for the problem solving and logic it teaches.

I'd use AoPS to review - the books and videos. (As a parent, I'd want someone who is capable of dong AoPS to tutor my kids. Even if you are teaching at a lower lever, if you as a tutor don't fundamentally understand the math, then you can't pass on the nuances in your teaching).

I homeschool as a lifestyle choice that was discussed prior to having children. I am very thankful that my kids with learning difficulties are at home so that they can progress at their rates while being accommodated for their learning disabilities. My oldest is highly gifted with severe learning disabilities. He would have never been able to be in the gifted program here because of his learning disabilities. I feel strongly that my kids gifted side would have been overshadowed by their learning difficulties in school. ds1 - moderate dyslexia; severe dysgraphia dd3 - severe dyslexia and dysgraphia ds4 - severe dyslexia

If you do this, I would run it as a class that students have to sign up for. (It can be without homework). I would have the teacher give some basic background. Teach the lab to the class. Provide format for how to write up a lab report. Expect everyone to collect data during class - choose whether you wan to make lab reports optional at the families discretion. I've seen people teach dissection classes as standalone classes in our area.

Univ. of Kentucky requires: 1/2 credit health 1/2 credit PE 1 credit - history and appreciation of visual, performing arts as well as typical credits.

I would sit and do the starred and challenge problems together. Your daughter can still learn a lot by working through them with you (or with the solution manual, if writing it out herself). I will let a few sloppy mistakes slide, but not many - usually I just make them go back and correct it. I don't like conceptual mistakes as it often means they need a little more practice to firm up their understanding. I have students that can do most of the challenge problems and others that I don't even assign any to do on their own - it really depends on the student.

I'd fight it. No credit at all might be valid, but you shouldn't get an F when you are excused.

First child through elementary I spent about $600 per year. My second and third, I'd spend about $200 per year. My current 3rd grader, I spend <$100 per year on school supplies as most of what I use I already own and is nonconsumable. My other expense for his school is a $120 Learning Ally subscription.r year as most of

Lots of free high school and university level courses in i university. We download these to an ipad (assuming you have memory) and then you have them wherever you go.

I agree with everything posted above. Barton does not correlate to grade levels. If your son has only completed level 4 by next year (and yes, it's a long, hard level) then he won't be reading at 4th grade level because he won't have even encountered silent e which isn't introduced until level 6. The progression is not what others expect, but it works well. Are you working at home as well as the tutor? There are lots of fluency drills that can be done at home to practice what's already been taught and still have the tutor do all the teaching. Talk to the school, talk to your tutor, talk to Susan Barton directly - she really is very open to talking to anyone on the phone.

I'd certainly apply. I got admitted to medical school without the required number of biology hours (oops!). After I turned down everyone else, I got a letter saying I was deficient by 3 hours of biology. I wrote them a letter asking them to waive the requirement saying another 3 credit hours of random biology won't effect my medical career and let the rest of my transcript stand as I'm teachable.

AoPS offers chapters 1-13 as Algebra 1. While some of this material is arguably more often taught in algebra 2, other pieces of these chapters are expected to be known before starting algebra 2 so I would argue that it would be best to finish chapters 1-13 to call it algebra 1.

I agree with Kiana. Wanted to add, I think the Intro to Algebra book does cover algebra 1 and 2. I asked if it really covers all of algebra 2 and went looking through other books and the only topics that I found might be touched on in other algebra programs are hyperboles, ellipses, and matrices. The Counting and Probability and Number Theory books are great books. They can be done anytime in the sequence or skipped if you are crunched for time. I did them interspersed with algebra and geometry as a break from those subjects.

You might look at Derek Owens Precalculus - it is video based, but has the advantage of a real person to ask questions and do the grading.

I agree that I'd start AoPS PreA and just take breaks and fill in the gaps as needed.

Beast may or may not need supplementing depending on your child. IF my oldest had done Beast, I doubt I would have supplemented at all. He did SM and skipped big chunks (he skipped all the "easy" problems and went right to the hard problems and chapter reviews or straight to CWP.. My daughter is currently doing Beast behind her grade level (as the books come out), but it challenges her and I don't think she could go faster. She's been moving forward with SM and/or MEP. Her math skills are all over the chart - computation is difficult (probably due to her dyslexia), but her math logic is excellent. Right now she's starting Derek Owen's Prealgebra alongside Beast 4d. Once her skill set is a little better, I'll start her on AoPS Prealgebra. My youngest is loving Beast and is quickly moving through the fist books of level 3. I'm pulling some extra problems from SM3 - they cover harder multidigit addition and subtraction deeper as well as other topics that aren't touched much as this level of Beast. I suspect as he moves along we'll do all of Beast and skip big chunks of SM, but pick and choose pieces to do.

Another opinion - I wouldn't recommend AoPS Precalc for someone not that interested in math. It is a very good book, but hard. I do think AoPS Counting and Probability and Number Theory combined would make a credit for your son. I'm not sure this is the best choice, as I also would recommend moving on to precalc.

I'm glad to hear that you like Derek Owens so far. I'm likely to use it next year for my second son - I think it will be a good fit for him.

If you look at a sample of a Boomerang issue, it usually has discussion questions at the back of it. These are the questions that are discussed on the forum by the students. I think what you get out of it is what you put into it. My reluctant writer did not want to answer any questions and only did so minimally. If you have a student that will willing participate in the conversation about the book, then I think it could be really good.

"Review" section is a misnomer as I think that is where the meat of the chapter is. The chapter sections walk you through the teaching, but the chapter review is often where you put it all together and apply it to new and harder problems. AoPS does not have an end of chapter test or anything similar. By the way, I consider the challenge problems optional for some students. My students that are better at math always do the challenge problems. With my students that are just good, but struggle through the review section, I may skip the challenge altogether. I would not move on if students don't understand much of the "review".

It would be perfectly okay to eliminate Alcumus. I typically do one section per day - mom working through the section with the student and then the student doing the exercises. If it is a long or hard section (or we are just having a bad day) then we take two days for that section. I then take several days (up to a week) on the chapter review and challenge problems. I can easily see an "A" student only getting 3/4 of the chapter review problems and 1/2 of the challenge problems. I would count the starred problems as bonus, but not count them against the student if he can't get them. I use Alcumus as review. We do it on lazy days that we don't want to do other math. We also do it on days that we want to go more slowly through a chapter review so that math is still being done. I always work on Alcumus behind where my student is in the book. As you move along, Alcumus is not an easy thing. We may go weeks (or months) without touching Alcumus and then pick it up again.

I thnk there is a big difference in the end of chapter review problems and alcumus. Compared to Alcumus, I think the end of chapter review problems generally start easier and get harder than Alcumus. They build on themselves and incorporate a lot of theory and understanding of the concepts. Alcumus tests problem solving using the chapter concepts, but it is not the same. Once my kids struggle through the chapter reviews, they find Alcumus to be relatively easy.

Call AMC directly and talk to them. I've done so several times over the years and I've always found them helpful with my questions regarding homeschoolers taking the test.

I think the section exercises are very important and then the meat of the chapter is the review section at the end. Students cannot be expected to know how to do all those problems if they haven't worked the problems previously in the chapter. The review problems are not just a sampling of problems throughout the chapter, but they go much deeper and this is where LEARNING occurs - they haven't already done this type of problems so they shouldn't get them all right. The solution book has complete solutions to all the problems. For my kids, it might take several days (up to a week) to finish some of the end of chapter reviews. I use Alcumus as a review as we move on to future chapters.

We did this 3 years ago for the AMC 8. We had the youth minister at our church proctor the exam. All the material had to be mailed to him and we couldn't touch it. In the past it was acceptable to have other proctors such as math professors, librarians, ministers and the exam had to be at a public location. Now for the AMC 10/12, it is sponsored by a local university and my son takes it there. The university professor has gone out of her way to proctor on the second date (just for my son) as well as proctor the AIME for him alone. I've never tried to get our homeschool group or math club to proctor it as "I" can't be involved as the parent of a student taking the exam.