We got a cute on for my 14 year old at Francesca’s.

I have the book Dinner in an Instant by a New York Times food editor, Melissa Clark. It has some great recipes with complex tastes.

I’ve just ordered The Benefits of Being an Octopus because it looks really good.

I let my rising sixth grader do his required summer reading using audible last summer. He had a copy of the book that he read along with, too, but letting him listen was a good thing for him. My plan is to let him do that again this summer.

My best childhood friend (my first friend ever) teaches in their early college program there. She had already left. So scary. I just don’t know what to think anymore.

It shouldn’t be a problem because his AP number should be the same on all tests. As long as you take his AP booklet with him to the second school, it should be fine. And even if it gets messed up, it would eventually get sorted out. I wouldn’t think you could do two at different locations on the same day, though.

I wonder if you could remove the bra?

At Georgia Tech, linear algebra used to be covered in the first part of calculus 2. Now students take linear algebra after calculus 1, then multivariable after that. But really, it was just a name change of the class. Calculus 2 was mostly linear algebra. The MIT course I referred to above has a vectors and matrices unit as the first unit. Then it goes into partial derivatives, double integrals and triple integrals.

MIT has a great OpenCourseWare multivariable calculus course. Lectures, problem sets, and exams with solutions are all available. I went through it with my senior this year. It was enjoyable.

We don’t have curfews. We have never had a problem with a kid coming in late and loud. Our one rule is that if you aren’t coming home for the night, text us because if you car isn’t here in the morning I will assume you are upside down in a ditch.

Agnes Scott has a program with Georgia Tech where you do two years at Scott and two at Tech. I know it works for engineering, but I don’t know about other majors. Would that be a possibility for her?

University of Georgia has a good honors program.

Back in the day when the board used to flip, a poster wrote that she made life decisions thinking, “What would Caroline Ingalls do?” So I thought it would be funny to answer her question as Caroline. It isn’t my real name nor my middle name. It was just me being funny in my head.

https://www.breakoutedu.com/ You could try something like this. It’s like an escape room, but you have to break into the box by solving clues. Purchasing the stuff from this site is expensive, but you could probably make something similar very cheaply.

Sec(x)=-2 when x=2pi/3 +2npi and 4pi/3+2npi. It looks like she just missed the 4pi/3 when she went around the unit circle.

When I solve the problem, I get three solutions. I can either use sec (3x/2)=-2 or cos(3x/2)=-1/2. Both give me the same three solutions—4pi/9, 8pi/9, and 16pi/9. Is the solution manual giving another solution?

Could you somehow use QR codes?

I own three navy blue dresses with different hem lines, necklines, and sleeves. I wonder if people don’t notice they are different dresses. Hmm... I wear a lot of blue. Hmm... Luckily, i don’t think my boss cares. (Crap, what if he meets with parents and says, she knows her calculus, but she wears navy blue all the time?)

Make hopscotch boards with masking tape. We have done this at Girl Scouts with girls about that age and they enjoy it. First, I made a traditional hopscotch and showed them how it worked. Then I split them I to groups to invent their own hopscotch game. The masking tape pulls right off the floor after you are done.

I believe University of North Georgia has Arabic. I think they have summer programs for high schoolers in languages, too.

Mine just read The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle. It came in his Owl Crate Jr subscription.

Wow. Just wow.

I have a CriCut Explore Air 2, which I have so much fun with. I made these this weekend to commemorate my dd’s three middle school musicals. (Into the Woods, Pirates of Penzance, and Mary Poppins) I cut a stencil of freezer paper using my CriCut, painted on fabric, and then stretched over canvases that were on sale at Michaels this morning. I think my DD is about the same age as yours (14), and she uses it all the time. She monograms everything!

It isn’t true. I don’t have a subscription and it still works for me after a year.

Of course they aren’t using the same curriculum as they were in 1970.