I am trying to plan for high school math as my son with be a freshman this fall. We have been using Teaching Textbooks in 6-8th grades but was thinking of switching to Foerster with math without boarders for high school math. I am concerned though that I will not have the time for grading and keeping up with him in a more hands on program as I have 4 other younger children age 7, 5, 2 and 9mo. I love the Life of Fred books but am not comfortable with them as a complete program. Do you think I could have him do both TT and LOF to make a more college ready math program?

Thanks for the update! I am just about to purchase your program for Algebra 1 for my son next year (and if it goes well, plan to continue through your lessons). The flash drive idea is awesome! CDs do not always get put away properly at my house or the baby gets into them and they scratch, a flash drive will be so much better.

Thanks for all the ideas! Reports would be great, even if he does not want to play organized sports, it is good to know the rules and history of them! I agree that swimming is a priority for safty reasons and we are looking into individule lessons this year. I will keep in mind horseback riding for when we move back to the midwest and I can have my horse with us again!

Thanks! I think I have talked my husband into letting him try golf out for a semester and hope he like it. The rest I think we will just do at home, I will just have to get creative with course discriptions :)

My oldest will be a freshman next year and I am starting to plan. He has Autism and is not "sportsy" at all. I have not done formal PE class up to this point. We bowl with the other homeschoolers once a month and that is it. I am not sure that oganized sports is right for him. He is very un-cordinated and though he will throw a football around in the yard, he had no interest in playing on the youth teams when my 7 year old played last year... He is to the age now where he is too old for the youth programs and would have to play at the local high school which I don't think would work out. He would be a begginner at everything when other boys have played for years. We have even given up on group swim lessons when he failed out of level one 3 years in a row. I know that he will need PE credits and sports are the easy answer but that won't work for him....any ideas?

Hi, I am new to this site. I found it while resaerching for high school as my oldest will be a freshman next year! I am wondereing what you all do for math. I think I have decided on using the Math Without Boarders CDs with Foerster's book but I see that there are 5 years worth and I only have 4 years of high school. I am thinking that we should have started Algebra 1 in 8th grade in order to get through to Calculus. It is too late for that now, but I want my son to be prepared for college. Do colleges need to see Calculus on his transcript or is pre-calc. enough? How do I cram that much math into 4 years? Thanks