Noreen Claire
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Quick! Get your Latin students on it!
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DS12 gets up and starts his day at with math (AoPS Intro to Alg) at the dining room table; he often eats breakfast while working on math. I'm usually working at the table or a few steps away in the kitchen, and I go to him if/when asked for help.
DS9 will not start school work until after he's eaten and changed, (and done some origami, and read some books, and...) so he starts much later than DS12. He works on his *assigned* math (BA4) in the living room, and he comes to me if/when he gets stuck. He unschools himself with math books during his free time, and he usually brings those questions to DH when he's home in the evenings.
DS7 works on math whenever we can fit it in. We have been focusing on phonics and have been letting other subjects slide, and will likely continue to do so until his reading improves.
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7 hours ago, BaseballandHockey said:
I recently had him take the AOPS placement test, and he tested into their Algebra 1. I don't know, however, whether he's going to want to keep up that pace as he returns to sports, and extracurriculars, and school.
WTMAademy has a full-year AoPS algebra 1 course, in contrast to the 16-week course with AoPS. (I saw it when I was looking recently for alg1 review options, before DS12 moves on to the next thing.)
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3 hours ago, MercyA said:
One of my mom's heroes is John Lewis, so she is getting a copy of the picture book about his childhood: Preaching to the Chickens.
Thanks for this link - I'm ordering it for my kids!
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This is good news. My DS12 will be happy to go back to basketball in the winter fully-vaccinated. This past winter was very long without a team sport.
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"Suhposably" instead of supposedly. Makes me want to punch things. Which is hard, because it's my mother. 😔
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Always double the garlic in a recipe.
Loud children are breathing children ... worry if it is too quiet!
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DS12 worked through the pre-alg book in 5th grade; it took a full calendar year. He worked through the first 2/3 of the book by himself (work the examples/watch videos if needed/work problem sets/practice in Alcumus if needed), and then he took the pre-alg2 course through AoPS to finish (we were butting heads, so I needed him to be responsible to someone else for a bit). The live courses go very quickly, and if your kid (like mine) needs/wants to work through all the problems in the text *in addition to* all the problems that are assigned, it is a LOT of work. It was good for what we needed (a bit of review and then finishing up the book with someone else grading his work).
FWIW, he's a terrible typist, and that was not an issue. He did get kinda antsy in the last 15-20 minutes of each class, but it ended right at dinner time (he took the early section).
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier 😉
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On 4/17/2021 at 6:29 AM, klmama said:
I loved the final conversation between Sam and Bucky.
I loved that Bucky was honestly smiling through the entire episode. 😍
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It sounds to me like she's trying to talk about it in a way that makes it sound like she doesn't want/need the house from him. Like she *knows* that this is probably a sore spot for you, but she might not know how to deal with it with you, so if she shows you that she is willing to just give it away, that you won't be mad at her for it? (I'm spitballing here.)
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1 hour ago, Paige said:
I couldn't believe he was the same guy out of the mask as the one in the mask. I feel badly, the actor is a real person, but the mask does weird things to his face. Do you think they're doing some fancy makeup or effects to make it look so bad?
This. I see this every time he has his mask on!
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6 hours ago, alisoncooks said:
Going back to F&WS, I'm enjoying the look at the post-snap/blip* world.
End Game leaves us feeling like all is right with the world.
Spider-Man: Far From Home gives us a humorous look at the post-End Game troubles. When Aunt May returns, her apartment has new tenants who think she's a ghost. There's a scene where she's hosting a fundraiser for displaced persons.
WandaVision gives us a glimpse of the chaos immediately following the un-snap.
F&WS take it a step further and darker.
* blip or snap...which camp are you in? 😜
I was in camp "snap" until FatWS; Bucky called it the "blip", so I guess I'm camp blip now! 😆
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8 hours ago, calbear said:
I found myself in a similar place, I was not convinced that my son was as solid as he could be when we reached ch.13. We actually went back over Ch.10-13 before moving forward with the rest of the book. I used Alcumus as the basis for the second pass through. His grasp was much more solid after the second pass through the material. Having read about other people's experiences, this portion of the textbook just takes more effort and work so that helped him to know that.
Mine is around the same age and has a tendency to use LHS but I think that it is habit and not always stepping back to see what works easier. Sometimes he expands too early versus just leaving things expressed as factors because they easily simplify later. It's harder to see when you expanded something to a 6 digits.Thank you!
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I'm enjoying it tremendously, as I have a thing for Bucky Barnes. 😉
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Because I just finished episode four and HOLY CRAP.
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2 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said:
So... I'd be curious which parts you thought weren't solid, as that would change my answer 🙂 . What do you think he might still not be totally proficient at?
Overall, he's just been much slower. It comes and goes, though. He just flew right through the chapter on optimization problems. Other chapters were just a long slog.
At a finer level, some things don't feel as .... I don't quite have the words to explain it. For example, he always solves equations so that the X is on the left-hand side, even if it would be easier mathematically to have it on the RHS. I don't know if that is his tendency toward OCD/rigid thinking, or if he just doesn't yet have enough practice to see the easier way. Does that make sense?
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50 minutes ago, mathnerd said:
Here is how I approached this:
We did not move on completely from Alg1 after DS had done about 14 chapters in the AOPS Intro to Alg book mainly because I was worried that he had not done enough review problems, though I had no basis for this feeling. To convince myself that he had mastered all the topics, I pulled out extra problems per topic from other texts, problem books (Posamentier's problem books: https://www.amazon.com/Challenging-Problems-Algebra-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486691489 ), AMC contests etc. I also set the difficulty level of his Alcumus to "Insanely Hard" and had him turn all of the topics to blue.
He was doing other math meanwhile as well: he started on Geometry while still working on the above, so, no complaints from him about stagnating.
When he finished Alg2, we followed your Choice #2 (again for my own comfort) because I did not have the time at that point to keep spreadsheets and follow his progress and mastery per subtopic and to me Alg2 was the gateway to higher math and I did not want to leave it to self study. It turned out that doing the AOPS class online after finishing the book was a overkill for him. He did greatly enjoy the class as the instructor knew that he was capable and pulled him aside to give him more deeper insights (like a private chat room/whisper ... don't know what the term is) into topics and also the Written Proofs were graded meticulously.
Thank you for your response! I had forgotten that I could tweak the difficulty on Alcumus. That is an option - to add in Alcumus review parallel to whatever book we do next. (He's currently working it at the 'regular' setting, turning everything blue.)
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DS12 (just turned 12 last week) is in 6th grade and is finishing up chapter 9 of AoPS Intro to Algebra book. I'm guessing that he will be done with the "algebra 1" part of the book (chapters 1-13) sometime in August/September. This is the first time that he's ever really had to *work* at math. I'm fairly sure that it has to do with growing/sleeping/hormones, as he suddenly has a man-sized body. He's done a really good job with the book, on his own with help from me as needed, but I don't feel like it is as solid as it could be before we move on (to either the NT, C&P, or geometry books, we haven't decided yet). So, I have several different ideas for solidifying the algebra before we move on, and I was hoping someone else could give input into the choices.
Choice #1: enroll in an online AoPS Alg 1 course right now. (He previously took their pre-alg2 course.) This would review/reinforce the topics he's already worked in chapters 1-9, and then bring him through the final few chapters. We could then spend August and September (and maybe October?) working the challenge problems in the book for chapters 10-13, before moving on to the next thing.
Choice #2: enroll in an online AoPS Alg 1 course after he's finished chapters 1-13 on his own. (This will put us into December.)
Choice #3: work through a secondary algebra 1 text after he finishes chapter 13 in the AoPS text. I have several algebra 1 textbooks on the shelf (Jacobs, Pearson, etc), and we could just do the chapter reviews, dipping into the chapters as-needed.
Choice #4: Move on to whatever subject book he wants to do next, and throw in algebra reviews, either as they come up or in parallel.
other choices? There is always the option to just finish the Intro to Algebra book through chapter 22 for his 7th grade year...
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The requirement in my state is "equivalent" to 180 days/900 hours (990 for high school). At the beginning of the year, I set out my basic schedule of days, weeks, breaks (that coincide with the public school where DH teaches), etc. I look at how many days per week and minutes per day I will schedule for my kids to do each subject (not how long it actually takes, but how long I have planned for it to take). I do some rough math, make sure that it is approximately 900 hours, pat myself on the back, and then..... never, ever think about it again until the next year.
I don't count or mark down the days as we go through the year. I don't mark off spontaneous park days or beach days or museum/aquarium/zoo trips (boy, oh boy, do we miss those!) and tack them on at the end of the year. My school year runs September through August, and we do enough informal learning outside of scheduled "school days" that we will always be over and above the state's requirements.
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4 hours ago, J-rap said:
Wow, that was fast! Did his symptoms start suddenly, right before you took him in? So glad it turned out okay!!
No, he had intense pain Tuesday night, into Wednesday. He spent Wednesday in bed. He felt better Thursday morning, and was going to go into work, but decided to go to urgent care instead.
He's home now. Pale, tired, and sore but in good spirits.
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So, I got the call at 8:30 that he was on his way to his room from recovery. I was there in 5 minutes (the hospital is just up the hill) and I guess they forgot I was there, because I stayed until he started getting sleepy, a little over an hour. He's in good spirits, and he should come home tomorrow.
What a stressful day!
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....and, ten hours later, he's just come out of surgery for an emergency appendectomy. And I have not seen him since he left the house. 🤬🤬🤬
I'm waiting for the floor nurse to call me so I can go see him, but they will only let me stay for a few minutes because visiting hours ended fifteen minutes ago. I was waiting for my mother to get here to watch the younger boys so I could see him before he was taken into surgery, but she didn't get here in time.
Gah. I just want to see my husband!
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