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The parents should request and provide their child with a duplicate birth certificate! I don't think you really need a physical SSN card these days, with eVerify and such having the number should suffice.

Instead of watching the first NFL TV game yesterday (my team is already eliminated) I read some pertinent chapters from this study as was pointed out by Arcadia: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/574926-fyi-insights-and-recommendations-from-the-maa-national-study-of-college-calculus-2015/ If your future STEM student is using College Dual Enrollment to fulfill high school level material such as Precalculus you should read: Chapter 5 Placement and Student Performance in Calculus I page 60 " Precalculus as currently taught in most post-secondary institutions in the United States does very little to improve student chances of success in Calculus I and can actually be detrimental." I think the takeaway is make sure your student fully understands the Precalculus material covered by giving them a Calculus placement test or ALEKS and fill in any gaps before moving on to Calculus I. --------------------------------------------- on page 65 It also has a nice discussion of the ACT Compass and College Board Accuplacer tests along with ALEKS. I also learned about the topics that should be covered in a College Calculus I course.

You may want to review the choices here: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/542418-homeschool-high-school-math/

For a STEM student, I recommend Clover Creek Physics or similar in 9th grade with an AP level/Honors Physics or DE class Senior year. A Physics first program will be quite beneficial in the long run. Earth Science is usually 8th grade in NY (my home state) unless they recently changed it. Think about outsourcing some of these.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29304271/colorado-juniors-will-take-sat-college-entrance-exam "show me the money" When did the regular SAT cover science?

MATH after Saxon Algebra 1 supplement with Foersters Algebra 1 or similar to finish the year Geometry Algebra 2 - recommend Foersters over Saxon for Engineers Precalc Calc 1 Statistics SCIENCE 8th grade - Physical science 9th grade - look into Clover Creek Physics or similar Biology Chemistry AP Physics 1 or C AP Physics 2 or C

from CB In October, your child took the PSAT/NMSQT® at school. Starting on Thursday, Jan. 7, students will be able to view their scores online

limited number of states where Bluefield College is licensed to offer dual enrollment (but more than just VA) see http://www.bluefield.edu/admissions/admissions-online/dual-enrollment/

here is a nice fact page: http://californiahomeschool.net/howTo/legOpt.htm

Do any of your CCs have an Early College program (looking ahead to Junior year HS)? I wouldn't rush your 11 yo into any CC math yet - there are cheap and almost free options out there!

not for Engineering students - no credit is given (or wanted - future employer does not want see this)

http://www.christianbook.com/ has both older and newer saxon

1) Have you looked at Charter schools (B&M or physical) in your state? Some states have very flexible charter programs. 2) Most community colleges will use a standard placement test such as Compass or Accuplacer to determine placement. 3) Do you feel that your students are accelerated (even one grade level)?

It originally was a framework for schools to set up KA like stuff. https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/ I think this would be a lot of work to get it going!

2015 Award Statistics https://smart.asee.org/program_stats/2015_award_data

" In Addition; *Undergraduate applicants must be currently enrolled in a regionally accredited U.S. college or university and have a high school diploma/GED. Current high school students are not eligible to apply. " It looks like you can't get this for the Freshman year.

You are in luck - I was looking at creating summer Trig short course so here is the detailed topics versus textbooks that I found: ======================================= TEXT: Trigonometry, 10th Edition. Lial, Hornsby, Schneider ISBN: 0321671775 CHAPTERS/UNITS COVERED: Chapter 1: Trigonometric Functions Chapter 2: Acute Angles and Right Triangles Chapter 3: Radian Measure and Unit Circle Chapter 4: Graphs of the Circular Functions Chapter 5: Trigonometric Identities Chapter 6: Inverse Circular Functions and Trigonometric Equations Chapter 7: Applications of Trigonometry and Vectors Chapter 8: Complex Numbers, Polar Equations, and Parametric Equations -----daily topic --------------------- Section(s) Covered Homework Assignments Wednesday, June 4 1.1: Angles 1.2: Similar Triangles 1.3: Trigonometric Functions 1.1… #73-91(odd), 107-117(odd) 1.2…#51, 53, 55 1.3…#1-19(odd), 45-91(odd) Thursday, June 5 1.3 (cont’d) 1.4: Using the Definitions of the Trigonometric Functions 2.1: Trigonometric Functions of Acute Angles 2.2: Trigonometric Functions of Non-Acute Angles 1.4…#1-13(odd),31-41(odd), 61-79(odd) 2.1…#49-63(odd) 2.2…#11-51(odd), 79-89(odd) Friday, June 6 2.2 (cont’d) 2.3: Finding Trigonometric Functions Using a Calculator 2.4: Solving Right Triangles 2.5: Further Applications of Right Triangles 2.3…#5-33(odd) 2.4…#21-57(odd) 2.5…#15-21(odd), 31, 35 Monday, June 9 2.5 (cont’d) 7.1: Oblique Triangles and the Law of Sines 7.2: The Ambiguous Case of the Law of Sines 7.1…# 5-19(odd), 25,27, 29 7.2…# 13-21(odd) Tuesday, June 10 Test 1 Covers Ch. 1 §1-4 and Ch. 2 §1-5 Review Problems: pg 42 #27, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 45 Pg 89 #13-16(all), 17-37 (odd), 51,53, 55,59, 60 Wednesday, June 11 7.2 (cont’d) 7.3: The Law of Cosines 7.4: Vector Operations 7.3…# 19-35(odd), 39, 49 7.4…# 19, 21, 23, 33, 35 Thursday, June 12 7.4(cont’d) 7.5: Applications of Vectors 7.5…# 15-29(odd) Friday, June 13 3.1: Radian Measure 3.2: Applications of Radian Measure 3.4: Linear and Angular Speed 3.1…#7-21(odd), 29-43(odd), 67-85(odd) 3.2…#1-9(odd), 21-25(odd), 33, 35 3.4…#31-45(odd) Monday, June 16 Test 2 Covers Ch. 7 §1-5, and Ch. 3 §1, 2, & 4) Review Problems: pg 128 #21, 23, 27, 63,64 Pg 343 #1, 17-20(all), 26, 31, 49,52 Tuesday, June 17 3.3: The Unit Circle and Circular Functions 4.1: Graphs of the Sine and Cosine Functions 3.3…#1-39(odd), 55-75(odd) 4.1…# 13-39(odd) Wednesday, June 18 4.2: Translations of the Sine and Cosine Functions 4.3: Graphs of the Tangent and Cotangent Functions 4.4: Graphs of the Secant and Cosecant Functions 4.2…#33-55(odd) 4.3…#7-31(odd) 4.4…#5-17(odd) Thursday, June 19 6.1: Inverse Circular Functions 5.1: Fundamental Identities 5.2: Verifying Trigonometric Identities 6.1…#13-67(odd), 79, 81, 99 5.2…#35-71(odd) Monday, June 23 Test 3, In-Class (Covers Ch. 3 §3, Ch. 4 §1-4 & Ch. 6, §1) Review Problems: pg 129 #33-38(all) Pg 184 #25-41(all) Pg 285 #5-13(all) Tuesday, June 24 5.3: Sum and Difference Identities for Cosine 5.4: Sum and Difference Identities for Sine 5.3…#7-29(odd), 51-55(odd), 67,69 5.4…#9-25(odd), 45-49(odd), 57-65(odd) Wednesday, June 25 5.5: Double-Angle Identities 5.6: Half-Angle Identities 5.5…#7-19(odd), 37-47(odd), 57, 59, 61 5.6…#1 ,3, 19-29(odd), 45, 47 Thursday, June 26 6.2: Trigonometric Equations I 6.3: Trigonometric Equations II 6.2…#11-57(odd) 6.3…#7-39(odd) Monday, June 30 Test 4, In Class, Covers Ch. 5 §1-6 & Ch. 6 §2-3 Review Problems: pg 242 #27, 35, 37, 38, 49-63(odd) Pg 285 #36, 42, 47, 49, 51 Tuesday, July 1 8.1: Complex Numbers 8.2: Trigonometric Form of Complex Numbers 8.3: The Product and Quotient Theorems 8.4: De Moivre’s Theorem 8.1: #55, 57, 63, 81 8.2: #3-11(odd), 25-49(odd) 8.3: #3-23(odd) 8.4: #1-11(odd) Wednesday, June 2 Review for Comprehensive Final Exam Thursday, June 3 Comprehensive Final Exam ========================================================== Precalculus, 6th edition, by J. Stewart, L. Redlin and S. Watson CHAPs/SECTIONs TO BE COVERED (MATH 1600, Trigonometry) The following chapters and sections of the textbook will be covered according to the projected schedule below. Dates may change as events warrant. • Chapter 5: Trigonometric Functions: Unit Circle Approach o 5.1: The Unit Circle o 5.2: Trigonometric Functions of Real numbers o 5.3: Trigonometric Graphs o 5.4: More Trigonometric Graphs o 5.5: Inverse trigonometric Functions & their Graphs o 5.6: Modeling Harmonic Motion* • Chapter 6: Trigonometric Functions: Right Triangle Approach o 6.1: Angle Measure o 6.2: Trigonometry of Right Triangles o 6.3: Trigonometric Functions of Angles o 6.4: Inverse trigonometric Functions & Right Triangles o 6.5: The Law of Sines o 6.6: The Law of Cosines • Chapter 7: Analytic Trigonometry o 7.1: Trigonometric identities o 7.2: Addition and Subtraction Formula o 7.3: Double-Angle, Half-Angle & Product-Sum Formulas o 7.4: Basic Trigonometric Equations o 7.5: More Trigonometric Equations • Chapter 8: Polar Coordinates & Parametric equations o 8.1: Polar Coordinates o 8.2: Graphs of Polar Equations o 8.3: Polar forms of Complex Numbers; De-Moivre’s Theorem o 8.4: Plane Curves and Parametric Equations =========================================== Precalculus, Sullivan—9th Edition, Prentice Hall. Note that Trigonometry text by Sullivan could be used as a replacement for the full book. Material to be covered: We will cover parts or all of chapters 6, 7, and 8. I’d like to get through all of chapter 8. This includes a review of basic angles to the unit circle to graphs, properties, and applications of trigonometric functions. An exhaustive list is below Chapter 6: Trigonometric Functions 1. §6.1: Angles and Their Measure 2. §6.2: Trigonometric Functions: Unit Circle Approach 3. §6.3: Properties of the Trigonometric Functions 4. §6.4: Graphs of the Sine and Cosine Functions 5. §6.5: Graphs of the Tangent, Cotangent, Cosecant, and Secant Functions 6. §6.6: Phase Shift; Sinusoidal Curve Fitting * Chapter 7: Analytic Trigonometry 7. §7.1: The Inverse Sine, Cosine, and Tangent Functions 8. §7.2: The Inverse Trigonometric Functions (continued) 9. §7.3: Trigonometric Equations 10. §7.4: Trigonometric Identities 11. §7.5: Sum and Difference Formulas 12. §7.6: Double-angle and Half-angle Formulas 13. §7.7: Product-to-Sum and Sum-to-Product Formulas * Midterm – 7/16 Chapter 8: Applications of Trigonometric Functions 14. §8.1: Right Triangle Trigonometry; Applications 15. §8.2: The Law of Sines 16. §8.3: The Law of Cosines 17. §8.4: Area of a Triangle * 18. §8.5: Simple Harmonic Motion; Damped Motion; Combining Waves * * If time permits. ============================== Precalculus II (sixth edition) by M. Munem and J. Yizze with Contributions by Lonnie Hass, Larry Taylor, and Kathy Coykendall. Kendall Hunt Publishing Course Description Angle measure, trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions, trigonometric identites and equations, polar coordinates and applications https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~totushek/trig-sm13/syl.pdf

What Trig have they covered already? Have the done the unit circle yet? What topics will the college Pre-Calculus cover? There will be some Trig. Most "pure" Trig books are derived from the authors other math texts. If you like a particular author go with that. Do the students like videos along with the text? -------------------------------- some free/open text books that could be used as supplements: http://stitz-zeager.com/szct07042013.pdf http://mecmath.net/trig/trigbook.pdf

not recommended - pre-algebra at a CC will be remedial with fairly low expectations

Hmm - A solid Algebra II or 2 course has higher content expectations then just the second half of the Introduction to Algebra text. I used this text as a supplement for my son (his charter used Saxon) and we used some of the "second half" chapters during Algebra 1. The text is very good and challenging! AoPS calls it: Introduction to Algebra B

You may want to look at Algebra I: A Fresh Approach http://www.aplusses.com/zencart/algebra-i-a-fresh-approach-p-6.html they have free sample of chapter 1 you can look at

Also the late 199x AWL versions are the same as the PH Classic versions (different cover). They are cheap to purchase. Just buy it. The cost is worth it for the problem sets alone. ISBN13: 978-0201324587

My gut feel is that AoPS is not the right series for your situation. Maybe look at Fresh Approach?? http://cathyduffyreviews.com/math/Fresh-Approach-Algebra-and-Geometry.htm I think you can download a sample which you could try out with your student.

What is "Virtual Tutoring"? Is this through Skype or similar? If a tutoring component comes with the package then the prices are quite good.