I haven't taught from it, but I'd say it's likely pretty remedial and for non majors. At our cc, this text is used for a terminal course that wouldn't get transfer credit at the university. The course at our school is less than algebra 1 but a bit more than prealgebra... kind a survey course. Some business math, some set notation, but nothing that leads anywhere. You can look at Interact software and see types of problems in multiple different texts (most things that Pearson publishes). You can see on your cc or university website if they have any type of flow-chart for math courses within the math department. If someone told me they were taking "college mathematics" I wouldn't know what they were taking... and I've been teaching at the cc for about 15 years now.... It's just not a standard phrase. You may want to look at course descriptions in a college course catalog. That'll tell the topics they cover in a course. You can also look at what texts they use. Many schools have their syllabus online. THat may give some useful information for you too.

When prepping to teach calculus, I read from a couple of different texts that I have as reference. I remember liking the Thomas/Finney text best. I have the 6th edition. Our cc uses Larson. It's okay. (Although I hate hate hate the version they do for business calc where they just delete sections from this text. Makes the bus. calc. course just not make sense!) The Stewart texts have had the violin since the 1st edition (what I used in college in the early 90s). It's ridiculous how they do new texts every year or two. You'll likely be okay with any edition - and sometimes reading the material from multiple texts (and working the examples - paper and pencil in hand!) can really help with understanding. InterAct software can give extra practice problems if you need the online support (and Help Me Solve It feature will walk through the problem.... can be helpful instead of just examples from the text).

I've had my son not use the x because of variables later. He's used to seeing the dot, although you really don't use it much - you use parentheses. We still use the x for scientific notation (and there I think it makes more sense than the dot), but my poor son has heard my regular diatribes about problems with notation. I also see students get really confused with placement of parentheses. And the arguments over why -3^2 isn't the same as (-3)^2.... :angry: I really want math teachers to know their freakin' math. Heard another "my teacher said" today with wrong stuff. Sigh.

According to wikipedia, it is :) And the forum it was posted on where I saw it had the photo posted as a joke. But the complete break in reality some of the literalists have to subscribe to does get pointed out IMO in the picture :) I'll come out as agnostic with atheist leanings. Both of my parents are ministers. I was 5 when Mom started seminary and I remember her learning Greek to read the New Testament. Drives me batty with literalists. Mom has a Bible that has four different translations so you can compare what the English translation says in each version. Definitely makes a lot of difference. I remember in college having a friend tell me he'd been saved over a break and my initial thought (which I managed not to say) was, "Oh, I'm so sorry." That's where I started reconsidering some of my thoughts on organized religion. My parents are the sort who do "walk the walk". There are hypocrisies, but overall, you could point to them as "good Christians". I think many of the type of Christians mentioned in this thread are the sort that Jesus would have called out as Pharisees. I think it very sad that so many don't see the plank in their own eye. I see the rapture bumper stickers and think that many of these people would be very startled at what would actually happen to them were Jesus to return. (And Revelation is not meant to be read literally. A little critical thinking and understanding of type of writing!) I was in a book club where we read Left Behind. I mentioned it to my mother & asked if she knew anything about it (this was soon after it was published). She got the author's name, asked if his wife's name was Bev. I said yes from reading the back cover. She said, "Yeah. I don't like him." Then explained the suspect theology used in the books. It's interesting that both my sister and I aren't in church. She didn't even have her son baptized. My folks have done a good job at stopping bugging us about church and accepting those boundaries. I tell my son if he has questions about religion or beliefs, he can ask my parents for their thoughts. I've read him parts of the Bible and for cultural literacy knowing the stories is essential. But the Greek gods make a lot more sense to me than the Christian God.

Show him Pleasantville :) I remember pull-tabs for aluminum cans & when the bottles were glass with that styrofoam around them instead of plastic. We got an early VCR back in 1980 & I remember explaining to kids at school what it did. We don't have a rotary phone, but we do have two corded phones at the house still. Useful in case of power outages.

There's a picture that is posted on another forum I read that has pictures that I won't post here... but I will post a link to the picture....

:grouphug: Go ahead & get it done. :grouphug:

If they can get it in the texts the schools use, maybe a change will be made. I'm frustrated with all the poor math knowledge right now (had a class last night when teaching fractions and prime factorization with just a TON of whining, "Do we have to do it that way?" Argh.) I especially wish we had teachers who actually KNEW math teaching math. The misconceptions I have to try and correct get so frustrating (especially with the whining). I don't like the start of semester.

There is a thread on the Site News & Discussion boards asking if they'll get them back. We haven't heard ANYTHING yet about whether we'll get tags back or not! Right now the original author can tag a thread, but no one else can. I don't know how to search here using tags. I sure hope they return. They were SO helpful!

There are forums at singaporemath.com where you can get help with how to work problems in the singapore way. Here's the link. I don't think separate forums for subjects is a good idea, personally.

I agree with this. We have had the HP books as read-alouds for the family & we've limited it to one a year - at the end of the school year. It's worked well. My son questioned continuing after the death in book 5, but he handled it okay and did okay with book 6. We'll likely be doing book 7 at the end of this year (we did do the first two in first grade). He's also done well with us telling him not to read a book yet and why it's best to wait. He loves comics & I've got some graphic novels I've told him to stay away from for now!

I generally write it out as (1) Symbols of grouping (2) Exponenets (3) Multiplication and division as they appear from left to right (4) Addition & subtraction as they appear from left to right. IF I write PEMDAS, I do so as P / E / MD / AS. I warn them I'll try to catch them & we do examples where we have division before multiplication. I also explain order of ops as working by "shortcuts" (exponents as shortcut for repeated multiplication; multiplication as shortcut for repeated addition). And as early as possible, I say we don't have subtraction, only addition, so we'd read 5 - 8 as "5 plus negative 8". Definitely makes things easier with coefficients. Testing on this in my cc class on Wednesday. I just know I'll catch a number of them... sigh.

I'll settle for tomorrow.

I'd think Miquon would be a good preparation too. I looked at Miquon and didn't really understand it until we started using it. I love how they do division & used Miquon over Singapore for division. For prep, using Singapore, I'd be sure to use Intensive Practice and Challenging Word Problems... that's where you'll be getting the preparation for Beast.

On the general board and k-8, often CC refers to Classical Conversations. On the high school/college boards, cc just about always is community college. :)

Refinance if you're gaining a benefit. Like going from 30 year to 15 year or from ARM to fixed rate. Don't refi if you don't gain from it. For instance, we did a refi a couple years ago to drop a point or two in interest and pull out cash to buy a car. We could drop a point again if we did another refi, but we wouldn't be gaining enough to pay costs...and it would just push out the length of the loan, so we aren't doing another refi.

Take a look around for different "graphic organizer"s. that's what I think I've seen these approaches called. Maybe google images will find some that will work well for you.

My sister lives in Durham. She likes it from what I hear. The universities have a lot of stuff going on. She's active in what she has described as a fairly crunchy attachment parenting group. I'd say she's either atheist or agnostic.

We have the iPad book. My husband has been reading it. It looks done well from what I've seen.

You can take a look at program and general education requirements at different schools. I expect all will have a Quantitative Requirement, but as an undergrad, I know students were able to satisfy it with a number of different courses. Maybe a class that wasn't "math" but had more applications would fit her better.

Scores range from 1-25. They're scaled scores. Last year we got a "guide to understanding explore results" along with the scores. It included: Average Test Scores Earned by Fall-Tested Eighth Graders in the National Sample: English: 14.7 Math: 15.5 Reading: 14.6 Science: 16.6 Composite: 15.5 Our test results also included a comparison with national percentile of testers - compared to the eighth graders. I don't know what we'll get from Duke. NUMATS let us log in online and see comparison to other kids in the same grade & percentiles, so that was more useful. You can also see the scores Davidson Young Scholars takes for acceptance here. These would be really good scores on the Explore :)

Monterey has some beautiful locations. Aquarium is cool. There used to be some great places to stay along Big Sur. We were married in Carmel and had a brief honeymoon in San Luis Obispo. I miss CA. Have a great celebration!

About the test & sample questions. We sign up through the different talent searches. So... 30 math questions. Sounds like my son left 6 blank & guessed on 5. Yikes! :) He thinks he did well on the other sections. Now the waiting begins!

You cant have an indirect object without a direct object. Subject...explosion Verb...covered ...action verb. What was covered? Henrietta. Direct object. There isn't an IO. With glitter is a prepositional phrase.