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Physical science covers very basic concepts of physics and chemistry and sometimes a bit of earth science, usually with a tiny bit of math in the physics portion.
Conceptual physical science is a physical science that has eliminated even that little bit of math.
I thought e.g. Hewitt's Conceptual Physical Science does have a bit of math? As in, requiring pre-algebra and maybe some really basic algebra? The sample pages about Newton do seem to indicate that it uses *some* math, and I thought I'd seen people (including you, I thought?) say on other threads that it uses that bit of math?
https://learnscience.academy/physical-science/
Just wanting to make sure, because I was hoping to do a physical science that has *some* math in it for 6th grade for a kid who will have finished pre-algebra and who will be taking algebra concurrently (so, it can't be too math-heavy, but I don't want it to be math-free). If Hewitt's is not it, any idea of what would fit that description (reading level shouldn't exceed 9th grade or so either).
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Happy Threadiversary!
Though that now means I'm back to twenty pages behind once again....
Story of my life.
Good for you! Are you ready for your comprehensive thread quiz? You have read the entire thread, haven't you?
Nope, but I got 3 pages further.
All I learned in college was the fine art of BS.
Much more valuable than the "everything I needed to know I learned in kindergarten"-thing people say.
Good morning folks. Coffee, hugs or vodka for whomever needs whatever :lol:
Awesome!
There is no one quite like me.
Truth.
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Earth Science (high school, Regent's Level or better) is one where you will want an older textbook, from the 50s or 60s. The older texts cover concepts that have now been dropped due to lack of thinking skills, lack of knowing how to read a graph or table, lack of middle school chemistry, and the general dumb down of full inclusion.
Couldn't you just use a college text instead then? (Honest question, since I know basically zilch about US high school/college earth science instruction today or in the 50s.)
When I was in high school, we had biology, chemistry, and physics every year. We started bio in 7th grade, I don't remember if physics started in 7th or 8th, and chemistry started in 9th grade. Earth science was part of geography, which started in 7th grade, but which wasn't required after 9th grade (and I skipped 9th grade, so the last time I had geography was 8th grade, because I could not fit it into my schedule past that). Btw, not all those sciences were required all throughout high school either, or at least not to the degree I took them, but I was in the nature & science stream, so, yeah... science.
Now, doing 3 sciences every year would probably create transcript hell - just thought I'd mention that there's no particular reason you'd have to do one science per year - I think most years in high school I had 3 hours* of bio, 3 hours of physics, and 2-3 hours of chemistry per week, iirc (and 4-5 hours of integrated math, while we're talking about subjects that don't necessarily need to follow the standard US sequence... all subjects combined probably something like 32-35 hours/week, iirc).
*50 min.
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Edpo (Greek content):
The Greek I had ordered was for me so I needed more for John but not $50 worth for free shipping. I had contemplated buying stuff for next year but I didn't want to if I didn't have to. I got an email that Christian Book was doing free shipping for $35 but I only had $32 worth so I got a humble little hardback Greek New Testament. I've been wanting one but couldn't justify the purchase, but spending $10 on something I wanted instead of $8 on shipping was a good excuse. :D
None of that looked like Greek to me.
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Yep, dinner is ready. Oh, and I even Russianed today.
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I kind of want to throw more school at the kids so they'll quit playing really noisily in the living room right near me.
#whateverworks
(and no, not going to do it, because dinner should be ready soon, plus I'm not feeling good now... probably finally getting some of those med side effects)
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The only attention I gave to pi today was to ask DW when she announced the $3000/year raise, if she could go back and tell management to make it $3141.59 for pi day's sake. But, she said that apparently she'd gotten it a few days ago, and that her boss had only emailed it to her today because she hadn't been in to the office in days, but that the letter was waiting on her desk.
She really should go to work more often.
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No pis were harmed during math. Nor used during math, for that matter.
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I forgot about Pi. We’re having chicken.
I really can't care less about pi this year. DW is making jambalaya and brownies, as usual (she does this practically every Wednesday evening).
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Math done. Dutch done. #accomplished (albeit not quite a full day)
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Perhaps, but that ship has sailed.
Truly, all the work she did through AOPS has taught her how to tough things out until you get it even when something's not immediately clear. Her natural stubbornness is also a factor, I'm sure.
Right, I just meant it as part of the advice for OP. I wouldn't skip precalc, even though it is possible to do fine in calc without it. The only situation in which I'd recommend skipping it is if it's between skipping precalc and doing calc, and doing no math at all. In that case, calc without precalc beats no math at all.
(for clarity, I do think that it can sometimes make sense to just do precalc over the summer or w/e... I'm not saying you have to spend a whole semester or whole year on it - just that I wouldn't skip it)
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Yeah, scrap today. I went to Stuffmart (the shame!) and bought Gatorade and chocolate because today has been special in a not good way.
:grouphug: and also :grouphug: for Krissi, and anyone else who needs them.
So, since Celery said he was feeling better, we ended up watching a couple of episodes of GC together (one about history, the other of superstar student), and talking about them some. I think that went fine. I'm not going to try to cram in a full day though.
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Vopo: Celery threw up an hour and a half before guitar lesson. I did take Broccoli to violin, but really, between everything, I think today is a mental health/sick day or something, because I don't see much of a point in trying to put some education into anyone's head at this point (I'm normally really good about getting something done, even if we start late, but I don't know about today). Maybe I'll watch something educational with the kids. Celery is saying he's feeling better now.
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She didn't completely lack trig (like I said, we did the quickie precalc), it just wasn't as strong as I would have liked. She's in multivariable calculus so she's survived.
As someone who's skipped one year of integrated math (which included some trig), 'survival' is not really what I'd make my goal. I even got pretty good grades, but in retrospect, I really should've worked through that entire math book and learned it thoroughly, because surviving, even with decent grades, is sucky compared to really knowing the material.
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If you think this is reasonable, I challenge you to go to sleep tonight sometime after 10 pm.
Then get up at 4:30 am. Get dressed in pants and t-shirt. Leave all devices, books, etc, in your bedroom.
Leave a note for someone in your family to relieve you sometime between 11 am and 1 pm.
Report to the bathroom in your home, turn the fan on, turn on the heater and wait.
You can mop, but no other cleaning.
Sit or stand, your choice.
You may use the bathroom once, but you cannot leave the bathroom.
Wait for a family member come find you after 6 to 8 hours.
I don't think it's reasonable, but I also think it's a bad analogy. You can go to bed earlier than that, AND I'm sure there's more space in the actual pool area to pace than in our bathroom, which gives me a whopping 1.5-2 steps before needing to turn around, which would quickly lead to feeling quite dizzy I bet.
Because he is 18. He has two jobs. He may have school or other responsibilities. Going to sleep at 10, will give you 6.5 hours of sleep before the 5 am shift. I think that is normal for a lot of people especially teens.
And those people shouldn't take that job then. If you need to be up at 4:30 and you need to be alert on a boring job, then you should go to bed at a time that will let you get your 8 hours. If you can't, let someone who can take that job. Not everyone goes to bed after 10. Btw, I'm not saying that the working conditions are fine... just that I think your analogy is highly problematic.
Truck drivers are a similar profession. You wouldn't want one to drive 8 hours with only potty breaks (no resting at the deli or talking to the other patrons), no radio, no audiobooks, no CB, no cell phone, no pull off and close your eyes for a few minutes. Just continuous, completely boring hyperawareness. (I do realize that the break requirements for truck drivers are way less than they should be for complete safety! I'm just commented on what we would want to see for our own safety being on the road with them....and what I would want in a lifeguard that is taking care of me and my loved ones.)
Yes, the truck driving requirements in the US are utter BS and sometimes make things worse because to get the most miles in, you can't just take a nap in the middle of your shift. It's absolutely batty that you can drive for 11 hours without taking a potty break (my personal record is 10.5 hours). But, at least you can crank up the radio with upbeat music and sing along at the top of your voice.
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Btw, for the people who get flagged for score drops, I wonder if it's easy to fight it if they either obviously drew some pattern in the bubbles (like a huge smiley face) or just answer b for everything or something. I don't think my kids will be in this situation, but when they're older I'll definitely advise them to not just randomly bubble stuff in if they have to take a test for dumb bureaucratic reasons, but to just leave it completely blank, or make it VERY obvious that they didn't attempt to answer anything.
ETA: or, obviously, to actually try their best on the test, but I don't know to what degree I'd be able to convince teen boys to do that.
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But, we don't know what this means. Is it that they chose the same wrong answer choices? Wouldn't that be possible if they had the same teaching? Or does it mean they got the same questions right or the same score? Or does it mean that the majority of their answers we're the same (which is the most suspicious but still jot evidence of cheating)?
I agree. I saw one non-Col. Conf posting on the internet where it really sounded, to me,as if the kid was guilty (got a 32? or 34? the second time but has straight Bs in school and refuses to retake the test). It sounded like, in that case, the student was notified in a timely manner and would have time to retake it close to the original tutoring.
Also, the higher the scores, the more answers kids are going to have to have the same, just because 2 people getting a perfect score will *have* to have 100% the same answers, no? Now, for the kids who get accused with a score of 25, yeah, that'd be plenty of answers wrong to be able to say, hm, that's some statistically unlikely number of answers the same, but, with the huge numbers of students taking the tests, some kid somewhere is likely to have a statistically unlikely number of answers the same as some other kid they're sitting near, just because of the big numbers. And, like you said, being taught by the same teacher. Not that I'm saying all these students are necessarily falsely accused... odds are some aren't, but we don't know which, and, we have too little info.
Getting a really high score while being a B student isn't that odd... some kids just slack in school and have a "good enough" kind of attitude, while being bright enough to score really high on a test that doesn't require studying for (like, you won't do well on say, a biology test in school just because you have some kickass reading comprehension, but you can score high on the SAT/ACT that way). The main thing I'm thinking is that it'd be weird to be a B student in math while scoring really high on that on the test, but if the school is making a large part of the math grade based on homework, I could see that too with a bright kid who just never does the homework and/or never hands in the homework.
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I guess my main concern is that any baby of ours is at an increased risk for being special needs, what with the family history of ASDs and things like bipolar etc. I don't really feel I have it in me to deal with another special needs kid, which is one of the reasons we didn't try to have a third kid - the stress and worry of whether Celery would ever be able to function well enough to become an independent adult is not something I want to go through again (obviously, we still don't know if he'll become an independent adult, but I'd imagine he should be able to... and having seen the huge leaps he's made since he was a toddler/preschooler would make it easier to go through that with another kid.... but still - that was not an easy time).
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Thanks guys. It wouldn't be the end of the world if we had a third kid, though pregnancy and I don't get along very well (no major issues, just 24/7 'morning' sickness), and having an 8 year gap wasn't on my wishlist. Basically, I'm estimating my real odds of getting pregnant at probably more like <1% rather than 3%, but, I don't know what I'd do if I were. Sometimes I think it'd be nice to have another baby, but, yeah... it's so nice that the kids are older and we can do big kid things all the time. Plus, I have no idea what I'd do re: career... my plan was to just start a career when Broccoli graduated high school, which is when I'll be 42 or 43 or something... add 8 years to that, and... *poof* to future career plans, unless I either stick the kid in school or figure out how to work while homeschooling.
Either way, the odds are really small, small enough I'm not really worried. Though I'll obviously be buying some pregnancy tests in a few weeks, since a) I don't recall when my last period started, and b) my cycles are kind of random in length (anything up to 8 weeks is normal for me, though recently I think they have been closer to other people's normal length, I think), so, that's going to be annoying.
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I can't say how much we spend on education. Is our Bible instruction part of school or something we would do anyway? What about music? Or our good books? These things are important to me and while you would call them part of our curriculum they are things we would buy if the kids went to school. I dare not count the cost of everything we've bought for education in this house for I would probably cry.
Right, I don't know either. It doesn't total $11k/year though, even if I include music lessons etc. I mean, if I were to include our upcoming educational field trip to The Netherlands, Austria, etc, then yes, I'd imagine we'll hit that number, but including that would be really nutty.
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Japanese proverb: 塵もç©ã‚‚ã‚Œã°ã€å±±ã¨ãªã‚‹
Even dust, when piled up, will become a mountain.
Me gusta. Reminded me immediately of Festina lente.
Reminds me of my living room. :P
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I was going to get John and me each a theme based book (Bible Heroes & Fables) and work on them together next year. I realized it might be obnoxious teaching one text while working in another when the point is for us to be writing together so I think I'll get one text and share. Is that ridiculous? He is not the type to compare his writing to mine and be discouraged.
Broccoli has been bringing me stories he wrote, and has been nagging me to write a story for him too. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I should. Either way, point is that at least some kids want their parents to write stuff and share it with them.
You guys are boring!
Trying hard to not be boring this
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Math word problem: If the Plan B instructions say it prevents 7 out of 8 women who would've gotten pregnant from getting pregnant, and if the odds of getting pregnant at 33yo are something along the lines of 25% per cycle while not using protection, then what are the odds of getting pregnant if the condom went MIA and had to be retrieved from way far in?
If I did the math right, 3.125%, right?
Now, I think the real odds are lower than that... DW's sperm count was pretty crappy before she ever started her transition, and while she hasn't been on hormones in a while, I doubt that her sperm count is higher now (it took 9 months to get pregnant with Celery and that was when the odds per cycle should've been more like 35% - oh, and my gynecologist thinks I might have some anovulatory cycles). Also, 25% chance per cycle is not the same as 25% per activity... probably a slightly lower chance for just the one time (and, a lot was still in the condom). If you want to giggle you can imagine a transwoman walking into a pharmacy late at night to buy Plan B... that probably was funny for the store clerk (if they realized DW is trans... she passes the vast majority of the time, so, probably not as funny).
Major downside is that I ended up staying up way later than intended (there are no 24 hour pharmacies near us), so my morning has been a complete loss.
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Oh, and random factoid: yesterday I read in a book that Americans spend on average 3% of their income on education, whereas the Japanese spend 15%. It's not that all the Japanese kids go to private school (most don't), but a lot do go to juku, which are afterschool programs, which can cost quite a lot. Somehow, DW was not amused when I suggested last night that we *could* spend over $11k on education per year...
It does make me feel better about our educational spending, in that I don't feel completely unjustified for spending a ton on curricula etc.
(In reality, if I got a minimum wage job I'd make over $11k/year, so, in effect, we *are* spending over $11k on education/year in foregone wages, but let's not think about that.)
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Ignore this thread!
in General Education Discussion Board
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Yeah, though I think legally they can't make you pay or return the photos, so, they're just betting that most people will actually pay (or return the photos).