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  1. There are team awards for those AMC levels, even if teams don't move ahead to AIME, USAMO, etc.
  2. Wow, that's bad news! As Laura mentioned, there was a problem a few years ago involving non-homeschooled kids posing as homeschoolers. I think it was because they wanted to form super teams by pulling good students from several different high schools (which is against the rules), calling themselves a homeschooled team, and thus having a better chance of winning team honors. Or as alewife said, maybe they caught wind of some cheating going on in these groups. Either way, it's a shame for legitimate, honest homeschoolers who want to participate on their own. I suppose that we can still ask to participate along with a local high school, but that assumes that (1) there's such a high school available, and (2) the high school will allow homeschoolers in to take the exam. We always found it easy to take the AMC exams proctored in the study room of our local library. No fuss, and a good quiet atmosphere!
  3. Well, for us SPCS was time efficient and rigorous. I taught university math in my past life, and I thought that their teaching, problem sets and take home tests were both challenging and fair. Dd was involved in a lot of activities, which would have made commuting to a local college for a math course just too time intensive. And I doubt the local college courses would have been any better. Even though she's an extravert, dd liked to get her school work done efficiently. She had more than enough people time in her many extracurricular activities
  4. My kids self-studied Physics C successfully using the 5th edition of H/R/K. In this old thread, I listed their homework problem assignments and also some of the extra resources we used. Since this was 10+ years ago, some of the links posted no longer work, but you can see a basic idea of what we did. The AP C tests haven't been revised, so they cover the same material today as they did then. I never submitted a syllabus to the College Board for approval, so I don't have anything more formal than that. My kids just sat for the exam, and I listed the course as something like "Advanced Physics with AP exam" on their transcripts. Never gave midterms or finals either, outside of the AP exam. I checked over their work, so I had a good feel for their learning.
  5. Stanford's PreCollege university level courses in math and physics have been around for a while, but they used to part of their EPGY online program. It was standard to give one credit per course back then. Dd was even able to transfer those EPGY credits to her undergrad transcript when she attended Stanford. I would definitely count them as math, not extracurriculars, on his transcript.
  6. I like this Suppes text, too. Answers are online for free here.
  7. Both of my kids continued with math at home with me for the last two years of high school. They both worked through Marsden & Tromba's Vector Calculus. Ds also used the Apostol texts mentioned above for linear algebra, and whatever textbook MIT was using at that time for differential equations. He supplemented with AoPS olympiad geometry and WOOT. Dd worked through Linear Algebra Done Right, Differential Equations by Simmons, AoPS olympiad geometry, and Stanford online college number theory. Both continued to participate in math competitions and camps, too. Around here, the CC classes would have been too plug and chug for us.
  8. This got me interested, so I went to check on Caltech's website. Looks like they are still using Apostol's classic text for the required freshman math sequence. So, they will cover differential and integral calculus, linear algebra, and multivariable calc in their first three quarters. That will be nothing like traditional calculus, though! Apostol digs deep into theory...more like an intro real analysis. Dd took a similar sequence at Stanford, and it was killer...no plug and chug whatsoever.
  9. Both of my kids qualified for SET in the fall of grade 7. Ds did Jacob's Algebra in grade 6 and was part way through Dolciani Alg 2. He had not done a formal geometry. Dd also did Jacob's in 6th and was part way through his geometry text when she took the SAT. She did alg2 in grade 9. So, not super advanced in formal math curriculum! They started in public school, so even getting ds into prealgebra as a 5th grader took a lot of work.? I used to teach for CTY when they had in-person classes here in Richmond for gifted math kids. Their approach was to speed them through a middle of the road curriculum (Bettinger, which is similar to Lial's). My babies were small then, and I decided that I'd take a different approach with them. We didn't hurry through curriculum, but we did a lot of sideways math...puzzle books, living math books, lots of board games requiring reasoning, some very informal number theory and probability (no AoPS back then), chess, science museum and math center classes, etc. My goal always was to keep them interested and wanting more. When they hit middle school age, I added in some AMC and MathCounts practice problems weekly. Dd started a little before that, because she wanted to do whatever big brother was doing. He started contest problems about a week before his first AMC 8 since I didn't find out till the last minute that homeschoolers were going to be allowed to participate that year. He scored a perfect paper, which sort of woke me up, LOL. After that AoPS was just beginning to come on the scene (found out about them on a MathCounts message board), and we also started down the road of summer math camps.
  10. Then don't look at the cost of the Stanford courses! ?? My daughter did take math with Stanford in the old days when the classes cost less, and then she received about 2/3 of the tuition as financial aid. Not sure if aid is possible these days. I agree that the cost is high, & I used to work as a CTY math instructor LOL (not online, though). I certainly wasn't paid anywhere near that amount! We did splurge on summer camp experiences, though. They were worth it to us for the chance for the kids to connect with others like themselves.
  11. Just saw that you're interested in Stanford Online High school. I took a look at their requirements (whether you enroll full time or take a single course or two): International and Homeschooled Applicants There it suggests the SAT test as the most commonly available exam for international kids, though they take any of the exams on this list: Approved Standardized Testing
  12. You want the SAT run by the College Board. The letters no longer stand for anything, though they stood for the Scholastic Aptitude Test in the past. Out of level testing just means young kids taking a test meant for older kids. In the US, some advanced middle schoolers take the ACT or SAT (meant for high schoolers applying to college), often through a talent search. Johns Hopkins CTY is one of those organizations. Khan Academy has official SAT practice tests free online. SATs are not administered officially online, only at in-person testing sites. Registration is done in advance: If under 13 years old, registration must be done by mail. International Registration & Testing Sites for SAT My only caution would be to make sure your child is on board with the testing. Some kids, especially those who are used to excelling at everything, can be a bit shaken the first time they encounter a test that may cover material they haven't studied yet. Some have test anxiety. Other kids are energized by the same experience. I had the latter kind of kids, and we found the results useful in a couple of ways. We never did IQ testing, so it was a less expensive way to see how they stack up with gifted kids their own age and also with the college bound population. The scores can be saved and came in useful when my kids applied to certain academic summer camps. Others find the scores useful for dual enrollment in college courses at a young age (we didn't pursue that). Scores earned before high school age disappear from the College Board's records if they're not officially saved, so there's no stress about what to do if they score lower than anticipated.
  13. I know some of you have been patiently waiting for this...AoPS's Beast Academy Online is now open for enrollment. ☺️ The details are on the website: Beast Academy Looks like fun!
  14. North of Pittsburgh, my Italian momma's way of getting ready for a graduation party: There are even gluten free selections ? @Jean in Newcastle
  15. Or YAY, depending on whose side you're on!! (just found out recently that I'm 1/2 Croatian...)
  16. American Eagle worked best for my super skinny boy.
  17. I gave my kids one credit for the combo, but I don't think two credits would be out of line at all. It's essentially a year of college engineering physics.
  18. She says that they don't currently have plans for when to offer group theory.
  19. Dd confirms that AoPS online school calculus is still AP approved. ?
  20. Hmm...I suppose you could do that. But I'd probably be more inclined to move on after BC calculus, provided the class was completed successfully and the AP score showed mastery. You could always get the AoPS book to supplement on the side while doing the PAH course. Or you could wait till university and retake calculus there. Colleges usually offer a more theoretical level in addition to the standard freshman calc class. Also, a student who's going on to study multivariable calculus and diff eq's will have plenty of opportunities to keep his basic calculus fresh.
  21. A couple threads from last summer: AoPS vs PAH for AP Calculus BC FYI: AoPS Calculus class is now CollegeBoard approved for AP Calculus BC (include Fall 2016 class)
  22. Here you go: Click on the "Preadministraton Session" link part way down this page for a PowerPoint of the paperwork the kids fill out before the tests. Homeschool codes are in the AP Coordinator's Manual, p142.
  23. .. Ha! My daughter was like that about AoPS books and classes when she was in high school.....and AoPS was her first choice job after college. She's still thrilled to work there four years later...Maybe they'll be co-workers some day!
  24. She sounds a lot like my kitty! And she looks like her, too :-) She's also 1 1/2 years old. When she was little, she preferred to drink from running water at the sink than her bowl. We got her the same pet fountain that you bought about a year ago, and she adores it! I keep a regular water bowl for her downstairs, but honestly she just runs upstairs to her fountain if she's thirsty. I do have to take it apart and give it a thorough cleaning once a week and change the filter every other week (I buy those in bulk on Amazon).
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