Another vote for Miquon! Start with Orange. I have used a combination of Miquon and Singapore with four kids now. I would also recommend looking at Beast Academy when she gets to third grade.

Some of my son's favorite math gifts are: math t-shirts math clock math water bottle for hiking with boy scouts logic puzzles (like Thinkfun games) bigger Rubic's cubes - has a whole collection of sizes/varieties logic puzzle books something he thinks would be cook is a "pi" pizza cutter if you google math gifts or math clocks, or math watches, math t-shirts, etc you'll find a lot of ideas

It sounds like you made it pretty far in math. I'd recommend starting with Intro to ALgebra. There are things (like how negative and fractional exponents) are explained that might make you understand it much better. The beginning part of the book would be easy, but as the book goes along it gets much harder and you'd probably appreciate the teaching. I found the Intro to Counting and Probability book very interesting and mostly new to me and I have an engineering degree with lots of math background. My impression of the Intro to Number Theory book was that much of it was review for me, but taught me how to do some problems more elegantly. The work on bases and modular arithmetic was much newer to me. I still didn't see the significance until my oldest is turning hard advanced algebra problems into number theory and solving it easily. He often says it's much easier if you just think in base 13 or whatever number fits the problem. Recently he took 3^50 + 8^50 and changed it to mod 73 and then it was easy to tell if 73 was a factor. The point of the problem was to factor it repeatedly and then you would also find that 73 was a factor, but after much more work. He's beginning to get me to think in modular arithmetic which is a completely new way to approach problems for me.

My AoPS loving kid is liking Bravewriter better than anything we've tried before. As mom, I've very excited about what he is doing with writing through Bravewriter and hope it continues. (He is a severely dysgraphic writing phobic kid.)

I also love AoPS Geometry. I did it first with my math loving son. I thought I'd head a different direction with my second as he doesn't like math as well. After looking at a bunch of Geometry textbooks, I decided that I'd at least start AoPS geometry with my second and see how it goes - it is going well. I have also used AoPS in tutoring students that are behind in math - but in reality just needed math explained better.

I did two (sometimes three) lessons per week with discussion and tests. We finished in one semester.

Help For High School - I haven't used it yet, but I own it and I've picked through all the assignments. It appears very well written and easy to use. Basically it is the teaching and instructions from Bravewriter's 6 week Kidswriter Intermediate class and 6 week Essay class. It is intended to be done over about 12+ weeks and it can be repeated multiple times. It is written to the student with bitesize assignments that build on themselves. I think it is a perfect fit for my reluctant high school writer and I plan on starting it in the fall.

We just watch The Joy of Mathematics. My son's favorite math course from Teaching Company is Discrete Mathematics. My math lover loves this set of videos and watches/studies the videos, internalizes them, works on learning more math, applies these new concepts and then goes back and rewatches the videos. Discrete math is not what I'd recommend to the typical student - it's pretty complicated. We own a number of Teaching Company math videos and someday I intend to sit down and write them up for your thread on all the courses.

Good luck. As you do VT, don't be afraid to set aside other things in life as you devote a bunch of time and energy to VT.

My daughter is doing Winter Promise Equine Science and learning a lot of horse history alongside it. She'll pick up any history I'm reading to her little brother, but I'm not specifically doing any history with her next year. She'll also be doing a bunch of geography. She'll be 11 and will get back to formal history in another year.

Rosie, I am so sorry for your loss.

I don't think you are wasting your money. I found it very helpful in understanding my teenager (and therefore improving our relationship). It gave me the diagnosis to be able to stop pushing so hard in some areas and helped me to be a better teacher to his style.

I'd add statistics. In general, I think every child is different and that it is best to tailor their classes to their interests (as well as take basic foundational classes.

I use a combo of Singapore and Miquon for the early grades. My youngest is starting 2A so isn't far from starting Beast as well. My daughter and I have loved Beast.

I teach chemistry lab and I don't want to handle the stuff - way to much can go wrong with disasterous consequences. Watch you-tube and find a professor who likes to play with sodium who is willing to take the risk themselves.

I think Runkle makes a fine 1 semester geography course. You can always add to it if desired. I have no hesitations about not doing earth science with it depending on the child.

Alcumus is great! You can use it for more than just algebra as well. Also, don't forget than there are videos on the AoPS site linked to the first half of the AoPS book. As far as the teacher section, I just know my kid's password and log in to their account to check their progress. I used to have a teacher account to monitor other students I worked with. Awhile back, AoPS redid Alcumus and the teacher accounts. All the accounts were inactive over a summer and then they said I could create a new account. I never bothered, but I don't think it'd be any problem to create a teacher account.

I'd like some resources for Studio Art if you'd care to share.

For the history of music we like Discovering Music. You can do it by dvd or online subscription. There are also lots more music courses she has produced.

Center for Lit - has literature classes that you can do with or without the writing option. My high schooler did a class with them this year and it was great. I have signed up my middle schooler for next year.

We are in the middle of vision therapy. It has been life changing for my daughter who was able to decode words, but had no endurance for anything on paper. She would have severe headaches after a paragraph and would cry regularly. She couldn't do math on paper. So far she has gone from reading step into reading books to middle school level novels. Her headaches are very infrequent. Before VT, she had such poor depth perception that she'd fail a driver's license test - now it is much better. The VT doc says we are likely to see more improvements in reading, math, writing, her gait, her tics, etc. My 14 year old is also in VT - his biggest difficulty in life is his handwriting and it is improving. He's writing more of his math and other things. He is beginning to visualize better and have better special judgment. He says he notices a difference in his reading.

IEW has dvd based writing courses for any age. I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.

I think it is expensive, but I acknowledge that oftentimes I pay for all the resources that went into creating a good product. It has helped tremendously at our home.

I also like The Writer's Jungle. If you are going TWTM route, listen to Susan Wise Buaer's lectures.

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