Is it the same that's at Rainbow Resource here? Or would this be an earlier one?

Depending on how mathy he is, you may want to investigate The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) curriculum. I haven't looked at it. It sounds tough in a really good way, so do a search & check their site out. May be worth considering. They have online courses too.

Looks neat. Wish Rainbow Resource were one of the vendors :( But may go on my "to buy" list :)

So, a bit of role reversal here. I do see the mound of toys. It's just that it doesn't generally bother me. I can ignore it and then it becomes part of my routine. My husband hardly comes in my "office" at home for the piles of books and papers. He tries to ignore my side of the bedroom. I don't clean the house - and I generally don't notice its state. It just becomes part of the background. That said, we do have a division of certain responsibilities. I do the bills and laundry; he does the grocery shopping and evening cooking. Much of everything else is a catch as catch can - and the clutter (or dirt) gets to an annoyance level for my husband much before it gets to an annoyance level for me. Peela's comment on "maybe they just don't care" is really on target for me. Cleaning is very very very low on my priority list.

I just use their books. You can get them from their website or from Rainbow Resource.

I don't know if it's what you're considering, but I used a couple of the Kumon workbooks from Barnes & Noble with my son (subtraction Gr 2, Multiplication) and I found them somewhat useful for just drill & practice but not for what I'd consider "overteaching". I do that with Singapore IP, CWP, and Miquon. If you're just looking for extra practice, I think the Spectrum Math workbooks do better at having more practice.

:grouphug: Hope it works out for you guys! Sounds like you're asking the right questions and have a realistic idea of what it'll take. Good luck!

The Intermediate Algebra will have a review of the Beginning Algebra - mainly in terms of, "If you don't recall this, review it - you need it here!" From the problems you posted on the prior thread, I'd say your daughter needs Beginning Algebra, not Intermediate. She'd be expected to know all those topics in the intermediate course. I also question whether a self-paced course is the way to go. They're tough. They're also not entirely self-paced because you'll have deadlines (same as in class). What the self-paced does is let people who just need a brief review of topics brush up on them and move ahead at a faster rate. I think that being IN a classroom, hearing instruction, and being able to ask questions is what she needs. (Of course, it does depend on the instructor too. There are some at our college who are pretty bad & there's no way I'd let my son in the course. On Rate Your Professor, these are the instructors with the wonderful scores, lots of chili peppers, and the comments do indicate that tests are take home, easy A, etc.) You could also try a private tutor. Check at the cc or university and see if there's an instructor or grad student who tutors on the side. The one-on-one instruction or at least regular interaction with a teacher sounds like what has the best chance of helping your daughter the most.

:grouphug: We don't have the flu here - just bad colds. Dh and ds both lost their voices. I haven't caught it. I really don't want it!!! I figure I'll be sounding frog-like by Monday :glare: Hope you all feel better soon!

Most of these are from Algebra 1. Look for these topics in the table of contents of a text or index. You can check out a bunch of algebra books from a library and focus on just the topics you need. You could also see if you can use the books at a university library or community college - not check out but just use while you're there. You can look for texts titled Elementary or Elementary and Intermediate Algebra Literal equations, formulas --------------- Factoring. Specifically here: factor out GCF first, then difference of squares. There'll be a whole chapter on factoring generally. You need to be good at polynomial multiplication first to be able to factor well. Check out special products rules too. ---------------- Rational expressions. Reducing rationals, write in lowest terms, simplify. Requires a SOLID understanding of how fractions work (without calculator!) and then factoring is needed. ---------------- Polynomial division. (Division of Polynomials) Often found in a chapter with exponential rules and polynomial arithmetic. Synthetic division is a neat shortcut, but full long division IS needed. ----------------- The Pythagorean Theorem :) The distance formula (often found with distance and midpoint formula towards the end of an intermediate algebra text). It's really not complicated at all - just the formula looks scary. Draw a right triangle where the hypotenuse is the distance between the two points in the coordinate plane. It's a way to remember the distance formula. Really, all this is Algebra I - but you can find all of it in just about any text at the cc for beginning/intermediate algebra. And you may find more problems and better explanations than you would in an algebra I or II text. -----------------

I like purplemath for additional help. Here's the link to variation.

I started my son in 2nd grade at 7. I covered up the keys so he couldn't look (model paint). He can touch type now :)

:grouphug: I'm sorry. As an FYI, when our son was diagnosed with his tree nut allergy (anaphylactic reaction - glad we had the Epi for a dairy allergy), his allergist said there were some studies in Europe suggesting that sesame may cross-react with tree nuts and told us to avoid sesame as well as a just in case. YMMV, but it may be worth researching some more.

Nope, but I'll bump you. The Santa Barbara airport is TINY!!! It's fun to fly into though :) I did undergrad at UCSB. Bike paths everywhere, good bus system. Easy to get around without a car. Sigh. Approaching two decades ago. I miss the bike paths.

Nope. Prime numbers are any natural number with exactly two factors. One is neither prime nor composite (only has one factor). Two is the only even prime. The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a method to sort through numbers and list primes relatively rapidly. There are 25 primes less than 100. (1) List the numbers 1-100. (2) One isn't prime or composite, so ignore it. (3) Circle two. Two is a prime number (only factors are 1 and 2). (4) Go through your chart and cross off every number that is a multiple of two. (You've now crossed off every even number other than two.) (5) The next number is three. Circle it. It's prime (only factors are 1 and 3). (6) Go through your chart and cross out every multiple of three. Note that some of these have already been crossed out (like 6). (7) Continue this procedure with the next numbers... next will be with 5 (since 4 was crossed out) and you'd cross out all multiples of 5. You can check your work against the wiki entry for the sieve... it lists the primes under 130 (I think). In college, I ran across a book in the library from the early 1900s. It listed the first 20,000 primes (or the primes less than 20,000). Wild to have to look it up... but primes are very useful!

You do get 841 but you've got to be careful (oh so careful) with UNITS. These are in ft*ft or SQUARE FEET. So the answer is 841 sq. ft. Now... note that if you have 1 square yard... that's a square with 3 feet on each side. So 1 sq. yd. = 9 sq. ft. (Yup... the US system really stinks.) So for the answer of area in yards, you'd need to convert: 841 sq. ft * (1 sq. yd. / 9 sq. ft.) = 841/9 sq. yd. (using unit conversion here... google Dimension Analysis). Thus, 841/9 sq. yd. = 93 4/9 sq. yd. Careful with units.

Errata is on their website on the far right. Here's a link. There had been a different site long ago with old info. It's gone completely :( However, if you see something that looks strange or are checking against an older text, the forums there (go to Home, then Forums) will help.

There's also an illustration of it on Wikipedia.

I'm finding that with CWP 3, I need to work the problems ahead of my son so I can see how to set up the problem using bar models. This is more of an issue with the Challenging Problems. He's good with the basic ones. So you might want to have your daughter do some of the initial problems using the bar model to get comfortable with it, then on the Challenging Problems she'll probably need the bar models some! I haven't seen the bar models book, but I'd imagine that if you're able to set up the problems on your own, you'd be fine without the book.

These will be good. If you could only get one manipulative, I'd go with base 10 blocks. I didn't get Cuisinaire rods until I started with Miquon in 2nd grade and I really like them as well.

I buy from Singapore Math. It seems that they have some things cheaper than Rainbow. It was easier for me just to buy all the math at one place rather than mixing between which had a cheaper part of the program, but that would be another way to go. (And I really like the standards edition... and I use a few other supplemental books that are only at Singapore math.)

The text and workbook are definite needs. There's A and B for each grade level. There's a corresponding Home Instructor's Guide for each book (A and B). There's a single Extra Practice Book for the whole level (not divided into A and B). It gives extra practice on the same level as the workbook problems. I got it instead of a supplemental Spectrum workbook for extra practice, although we're not using it much and I'd probably just print free worksheets in the future. There's one CWP book for the whole level. If you could only get one supplemental book, this would be what I'd recommend. The bar models take time to learn, but they're pretty powerful and give a great transition to algebra. The Intensive Practice books are only for the US editions right now. They can be used with the Standards editions but you have to mix & match some. There are books A and B for each level. The IP books have more practice but generally at a significantly higher level than the text/wb. It also has word problems and challenge problems. We complete the CWP books along with the text. We end up lagging behind with the IP. I really like the challenge and thinking in it, but we just run out of time.

His voice was wonderful. I was able to hear him speak when he was writing Teacher Man. It was good (although not as good as Angela's Ashes). When I was considering homeschooling, I read David Guterson's Family Matters and I found it pretty interesting as well. Guterson was working as an English teacher in the public school. I imagine his writing supports the family at this point :)

The Home Instructor's Guide. There's one written for homeschool teachers for each text. It has answers to the text and workbook, some additional worksheets, and suggestions for pacing, teaching techniques, and ways to teach the material. I could teach without them easily... but I still find some useful ideas in them, so I'm glad I get them.