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I complete them and use Turbo Tax. My husband is responsible for the read through at the end and confirming my data entry. This year has been the first where I felt a little lost. I have two contractor jobs and the instructions were not clear on how to enter things. But I used the Turbo Tax chat feature and they helped me. About a week ago I was knee deep trying to figure out how to estimate my federal taxes for my contractor jobs and it was soooo complicated. So much more than it needed to be. I really admire those of you who can do the paper forms. Slightly off topic, but I saw an interesting video a month or so ago about how we (Americans) have all sort of accepted that we have to pay for a software to prepare our taxes. If you are interested: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009030739/irs-intuit-tax-season.html The original intent, per the video, was for the government to release a free version of something for us to use. Turbo Tax was free for a bit as sort of a measure to fill the gap until the feds got that going, and then it never happened. I don't know, I hadn't really thought of how silly it was that we are all paying to pay our taxes until that. My kids do use the Turbo Tax free edition, but you can accidentally find the wrong turbo tax site pretty easily.
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Does this type of Biology curriculum exist?
cintinative replied to Porridge's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
Kolbe Academy has a self-paced honors (and regular) Bio course using Miller and Levine's Macaw book. https://courses.kolbe.org/ Asynchronous PS09BLGPRH Our Asynchronous courses offer students a regular set of activities each week, including practice work, reflection and discussion, recorded content, and embedded homework with teacher feedback and guidance. Students are enrolled into penalty-free due date pacing. All grading is provided through a combination of auto-graded, self-graded, and teacher graded assignments. Answer keys are provided for the self-graded activities. Teachers are available for office instruction when needed and teachers submit semester grades upon completion of the term. Opting out of teacher grade reporting and/or due date pacing is possible. Order Books You can get the ebook bundle if you buy a class. It's possible (I can't be certain--you need to check) that there are self-guided notes included. https://books.kolbe.org/products/online-biology-resource-bundle -
Does this type of Biology curriculum exist?
cintinative replied to Porridge's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
@Clemsondana does yours provide this? I know that there are guided reading notebooks for the older versions of the Miller-Levine text. -
Surviving in the hospital with a child….
cintinative replied to sangtarah's topic in The Chat Board
I don't have any good advice but I wanted to say I'm so sorry you are going through this. -
I need a sweat proof sunscreen for my face
cintinative replied to stephanier.1765's topic in The Chat Board
It's not perfect but we have used Neutrogena's Sport Face for this. -
cintinative started following College readiness checklist for parents (financial and other)
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Can you clarify--he's a junior (??) and he's not taking math this year? Or am I misinterpreting? If he hasn't taken calculus before, I would think it is a rare kid who can totally self teach. Some options: Derek Owens (based on Forester but varies a lot from the text in terms of sequence)--self grading is cheaper if you want to try it, Forester with Math Without Borders videos, Larson's Calculus with Cool Math Guy (formerly he was with Chalkdust), or homemade course: Calculus by Larson and Edwards and Tarrou's Chalk Talk videos. There are lots of other options. There is a set of Instructional videos for the Larson Calculus. I actually started using that text and I just didn't like the way it was laid out. It's weird how that works. 😃 I tried to self teach using only the Forester text. I am not a gifted math person. I ended up finding videos to match up online (from YouTube) for most of it, but I did get stuck at points even with the answer key in hand.
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So for those following along, I emailed one of the professors on Saturday about setting up a tour of the department and meeting and he referred me back to the Academic Services Director who was unresponsive before. 😕 However, I did find out that last week was Spring Break so hopefully she will contact us soon.
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Literature guides for elementary students
cintinative replied to Nichola's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
Are you aware that you posted this on the K-8 Curriculum board? We never did that high level of analysis at elementary ages.