take AP statistics or Linear Algebra formally self-study MIT OCW Calculus to keep fresh and see what you did not learn in the AP classes: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Many folks consider AP BC not quite a full Calc 2 class.

Many online charter schools are quite weak so probably don't use that to judge them all. If your student does not like watching videos then I would skip that aspect. Your student really needs to be able to handle some of the "challenge" problems to be successful in most STEM fields. You could use Foerster's Algebra 1 and do some of those problems before or while starting Geometry with CLE or MUS. I believe MUS is considered less challenging but review the pinned thread: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/542418-homeschool-high-school-math/

also http://www.collegeboard.com/html/apcourseaudit/courses/physics_1_textbook_list.html This one is free Douglas Ingram & David Anderson. OpenStax College Physics for AP® Course 1. 1st ed. OpenStax

AP Physics 1 looks good based on the description and 1 review https://www.edx.org/course/apr-physics-1-bux-py1x-0 DS is taking AP Physics 1 this year at his B&M charter school - I will probably point out this site to his teacher If you are actually going to take the AP test - look for Jacobs https://www.amazon.com/Steps-AP-Physics-Algebra-Based-2017/dp/1259588068/ref=dp_ob_title_bk I borrowed the 2016 edition from our library and it was good. DS may just skip that exam (won't get college credit anyways future Eng or Physics major) and concentrate on his 3 other AP exams that will be credit eligible.

Yes it is quite reasonable for a SUNY school to expect Physics since I would say almost 100% of the public schools in NYS offer a Physics class. I know of some very tiny public schools in upstate NY that offer Regents Physics. Almost all publicly funded high schools in AZ offer at least one Physics class. Of course the quality of these classes may be suspect.

Typically the problem types used in a Finite Math text are from Business type situations versus Physics and Engineering. Applied Finite Mathematics by Rupinder Sekhon https://www.deanza.edu/faculty/bloomroberta/sekhonappliedfinitemathematics-small.pdf https://archive.org/details/ost-math-col10613 http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/textbook-listings/thereviews/mathematics Introduction to Finite Mathematics https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/finite/cover/cover.html

http://www.sscc.edu/home/jdavidso/mathadvising/aboutfinite.html

Maybe you could use both especially if a topic is unclear in one versus the other with examples etc. It is good to have exposure to multiple texts. Foerster problem sets are top notch so I would use those. I used the Foerster text for our Algebra 2 after-school program summer 2015 (DS used Holt during the B&M school year).

Disagree - typical HS level means the topics covered and the depth of coverage, it does not mean the "typical public HS Physics class" which may well be horrible these days. Homeschooling or not the material still needs to match the student's capability at the time of the course. This particular student has taken a less challenging math sequence so far versus some other students on this forum so something like Thinkwell would be more appropriate. [ I am assuming that the good College Algebra based Physics text books/classes are more challenging then the standard level HS Algebra based Physics text books/classes, with competent instruction for both, I may be wrong.]

For most students, I am not too keen on this approach if actual understanding of the Physics versus check-the-box is desired. For most STEM topics, the student needs a second pass through to fully grok the material. The college class should be quicker paced and more in depth than the typical high school level. Even Calculus based Physics is just a second pass through for the Newtonian stuff. Obviously there are students in the top 5-10% that do not need this method at all. This particular student does not seem to fit that profile.

Taking both College Algebra and College Trig would be Precalc. Some colleges do not use Precalc in their titles at all.

Any College science major should take Physics in HS. From your other Math thread I would say an Algebra based Physics course (see pinned thread) would be the correct route.

http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/v/vspfiles/tt/PreCalculus.htm Teaching Textbooks Precalculus covers the usual topics (including Trig) and looks fine for a future Bio major.

Many of the topics covered in Precalculus are more in depth than similar and overlapping topics in Algebra 2 and Geometry plus new topics. Many Precalculus text books break it out into sections such as Trig, Analytic Geometry, Discrete Math, etc. Really confusing is saying a course covers Precalculus and Trigonometry since "Precalculus" is primarily a "made-up" term that is a collection of math topics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precalculus

this may be of interest: https://neurosciencemajor.osu.edu/careers-neuroscience

If you think the videos are of acceptable or better quality then post to the Homeschool High School Math pinned thread with: GEOMETRY Textbook: Glencoe Geometry ISBN-10: 0078651069 2005 Online Class? No but free videos at _____________________ typically if the table of contents lines up the videos are close enough to be used by the way other books have free videos available as well see the pinned thread

if anyone sees the TI-84 go on this kind of sale (summer 2016) please PM me thanks Mark

Do you think he should test out? How about trying some calculus placement tests. https://www.smumn.edu/Resources/pdf/33815.pdf http://www.etown.edu/depts/math/files/PracticePreCalculus.pdf http://goldenwestcollege.edu/assessment/pdf/sample_mathtest4.pdf https://www.cpp.edu/~lrc/our-services/mathematics-diagnostic-placement-test.shtml

Unfortunately Common Core ties everything into Grade level (aka age cohort). The should have used Elementary level 1..n, Middle School level 1, etc. This would have allowed common sense achievement or mastery for math placement instead of grade. I also believe for high school level math they should have picked either Integrated or Traditional and stuck with that. One of the proposed benefits was that when a student moved the math covered in previous school X it would be very similar to new school Y. This is totally not the case here in AZ. My family moved during my high school years (within New York state) and both schools used the then high quality NYS Regents program so the transition was seamless.

If the primary reason for the CC is economic then I would engage them in a fairly deep discussion of college costs and long term student debt. Site some of the many examples previously presented on this forum.

I have had good luck with VLC on other video files but sometimes synching sound and video are still an issue. http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/282959-Having-trouble-with-bin-cue-files I assume you tried this: http://www.thinkwell.com/main/download Did your used CD-ROM come with player software? (this is what should be there) http://faculty.tcc.edu/JArnold/documents/student_user_guide_002_000.pdf You may want to resurrect an old XP machine* just to play these old CD-ROMs. *doesn't everyone have one stuffed away in a closet :)

excellent comparison

That is just bad planning on the school districts part the whole cohort should do one or the other. A few transition years where they offer both paths.

We ended up doing most our of after-school math supplementing during the summer (it continues). It is quite warm here and we hide inside most of the summer anyways. DS likes to have some free time during the school year. He is smart but just average on the "go-getter" scale. You could supplement a few AoPS problems each week related to the topic being covered at school.