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  • Birthday 09/20/1956

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  1. I’m so very sorry for your loss. Losing your mom is just so hard. I will be praying for peace and comfort for you and your dad and all of your family.
  2. Arcadia, I'm so sorry for your loss of your mother. Praying that you have a safe, comfortable flight and for peace for you and your loved ones.
  3. Praying for your mom's health and for your whole family, Arcadia!
  4. Congratulations, Hoggirl & son on the acceptance! lewelma, I hope all works out for your son, too 🙂
  5. The way that the converse is stated here is indeed false, as you can see in this example:The new red lines r’, s’, and t’ intersect the 2 blue transversals in the same points as the original r, s, and t lines, so they also divide those 2 transversals proportionally. But the red lines aren’t parallel! What you’re seeing in your Google search is different. It’s probably goes like: “if a line divides two sides of a triangle proportionally, then that line is parallel to the third side of the triangle.” That IS true, and you’re right, the triangle makes it different from what Jurgenson is asking. https://www.ck12.org/book/ck-12-basic-geometry-concepts/section/7.8/
  6. We were victims on unemployment fraud this year, too. My husband was laid off during the pandemic and was receiving unemployment via direct deposit. We stopped receiving payments for no known reason & could not reach anybody at our state's unemployment bureau. They were completely swamped, had no voice mail, and the phone system simply hung up on him every time he called. He finally got our state legislator to intervene, and it turned out that someone got into the system and changed his info from direct deposit to mailed debit card payments. They received our money for about a month before my husband switched it back. He filed a fraud report (months ago) and never heard anything back....still can't get anyone to answer the phone. We will have to pay any taxes due on that missed income.
  7. For my kids, Vol 1 worked well after they'd mastered basic algebra and geometry & while they were writing the AMC 8 and 10/12 exams. They were starting to qualify for AIME at that point and were scoring about 4 to 6 on that test. I'm on vacation now, so I don't have the books available to check, but I think that it's volume 1 that has some very useful material on tackling contest problems in geometry problems which are often tricky for kids. And as others have pointed out, the last few problems on the 10/12 exams in a category of their own! We did Vol 2 in place of textbook math for the kids' precalculus year, since I could never find a precalculus text that appealed to me. AoPS textbooks weren't written yet, so they weren't an option. Volume 2 has some very challenging material, and I enjoyed working through it alongside them. The kids were taking intermediate and olympiad level AoPS classes online at that point, and were scoring well on the AIME. One of them was starting to qualify for USAMO (as they did 3 times in high school) and this was one of our resource books that helped for that level.
  8. A birdbath for the memorial garden I’m putting together, a (virtual) visit with my far-away kids and granddaughter, and a day off from cooking. 😊
  9. I used Jacobs algebra with both of my extremely mathy kids. They were on the young side when they hit algebra & appreciated his conversational tone and sense of humor. As a mathematician, I appreciated his very transparent love of math and ability to present deep conceptual knowledge. Yes, many people say he's wordy, but I found that those wordy parts were him explaining the "whys" and not just the "hows" of math, putting ideas into historical context, and giving some interesting applications. We also used his geometry text (2nd edition) which I love even more. His breadth of topics there was fantastic for advanced and interested students (concurrence theorems and non-Euclidean geometries come to mind). He proves everything carefully with plenty of good diagrams. I had visual leaning students, so this helped. I did add word problems to his algebra text. I'm a big fan of the old Dolciani texts for word problems that really make kids think and organize their thoughts. One last thought...His algebra text has a problem set IV for each section that an 'extra for experts' sort of topic. He extends the topic with sometimes quite challenging work. If you have an advanced kid, you would want to look at these. After Jacobs algebra and geometry, my kids moved on to Dolciani algebra 2 and lots of AoPS classes/texts.
  10. I had my second dose of Pfizer on Wednesday. The first dose barely affected me; all I noticed was a slightly sore arm. One day out from the 2nd shot, though, and I was hit with severe fatigue and a very sore arm. I couldn’t get off the couch from noon on. Today (two days out) I was completely back to normal.
  11. I joined the boards at their beginning, around 1999 when I pulled my kids out of public school and started homeschooling my 11 year old son and 7 year old daughter. I'd been part of a local homeschool info group that met in the community room of our local Barnes & Noble. We had different speakers come in, and one week they featured a new book called the Well-Trained Mind. Jessie and Susan came that night to introduce their book and to talk about their methods with us. I bought the book (signed copy!) and soon read it and bookmarked oh-so-many pages. I was very comfortable teaching math and science, but really needed their help with literature, grammar, languages, and history. This was all back in the days of dial-up internet (no cell phones or tablets, lol), so good reference books were my primary resources. My kids are now 33 and 29, and my son has a little family of his own. He married a homeschooler, & they plan to homeschool their kids!
  12. Yes, definitely ask whether her department might help out. Crossing my fingers for her!
  13. OK, so now I'm a little afraid to step into this conversation and say that my daughter was part of the ICCS Rome semester program as a college junior majoring in Classics back in 2012. 😄 It's gone up a bit in price in the intervening years. The total estimated cost back then was approximately $30,000, which was still scarily high! She applied for Duke's financial aid and got $12,000 from them (and we're comfortably middle class). Her college advisor (who also recommended the program highly to her) arranged a departmental grant of an additional $9,000 for her. That still left about $9000 which she and I split. So it was more in tune with what we were used to paying for college. It was as advertised -- an amazing program. Lots and lots of on-site field trips/ lectures around Rome for the required Ancient City course, an art history class at the site of whatever work they were studying every Friday, and two week-long field trips to Sicily and Pompeii with all expenses included. There was one free week in the middle of the term when most of the kids did do some traveling. She joined a few others on a youth hostel tramp around Greece. A few kids did go on island vacations then, but that was not in her price range, haha. I'm sure that a lot of her classmates were wealthy, but no one was there for a vacation! It was tons and tons of work: research, essays, challenging exams, learning field presentation skills, advanced Latin readings, etc. But she also had lots and lots of fun exploring the city; the Centro is in a safe neighborhood so adventures out were common. The other students were serious about their studies & they bonded enough that they still have occasional reunions and she keeps in touch with several. Several went on to Classics PhD careers, and others like dd pursued other paths. There was even a marriage among her group! So yeah, it's expensive. We felt lucky that we could send her. And no, it's definitely not a rip-off or scam!
  14. I've never used this text, but I was able to locate a brief review from the May 1967 issue of Mathematics Magazine (click on the picture on the right to enlarge the reviews section). It appears to be a 186 pg book covering limits, sequences, and series, along with some applications. So its neither precalculus nor a full calculus book, but something that could be used in between the two courses to prepare for and motivate the ideas of calculus.
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