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    meeting with prof

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    The main reason to do it would be for the community of learners.  He just has no peers in the homeschooling community and I have had no luck with getting local schools to allow him to join the physics club (which is competitive internationally).  And there are no math clubs.  Right now AoPS is filling that void, but I am concerned about his focus on internet relationships over real ones. 

     

    Can I ask what it is about internet friendships that you feel is not 'real'? In what ways do you feel non internet relationships are better? Where is the boundary between 'real' and 'not real' - does is have to involve physical proximity to be real, and if so how frequently must they be in the same space? Where do pen & paper or telephone based friendships rank in this hierarchy?

     

    Are there opportunities for short residential courses for maths/science in NZ? In the UK there are a number of companies/charities/universities that organise such things for interested teens & they can be a good place to meet like minded friends.

    meeting with prof

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    Unless I'm mistaken, the time from bachelors to PHD in the US and UK is essentially the same. In the US, a Bachelors degree holder can apply directly to a PhD program which generally takes about five years including about two years of coursework, no need to obtain a Master's degree first. In the UK, a Bachelor's holder applies to a Masters program first which takes about two years, then applies to a PhD program for an additional three years.

     

    End result is the same amount of time invested. (This is obviously very generalized.)

    In the UK (England & Wales at least, Scotland is slightly different) a BSc is 3 years and typically the honours is a standard part of that.  It's common now to do a combined masters & BSc for funding reasons, taking 4 years in total; separately a BSc(hons) + MSc would be 3+1. PhDs here are typically minimum 3 years.

     

    Just to clarify, I was replying to Butler about (my understanding of) the British system. I believe you are correct that in NZ one would do a 1 year "honours" after a 3 year Bachelors, before going on to Masters and/or Doctorate. But I believe in almost any country, in math at least, a Masters is optional. One can go straight to Doctorate if ready.

    I checked the websites for Cambridge, Manchester & York - all require a Masters.

    "Less dependent" learners....does anyone else do this???

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    We're using this approach for maths & sciences. Sometimes I mark, sometimes they mark. For biology DD2 & I both do the questions, swap books & mark each others. I find having them mark at least some of their own work is beneficial, since they look at what they did wrong & what they should have done, rather than just the number of ticks or crosses.

     

    I don't know how much of a factor it is that they'll sit exams at the end of the course.

    News: First female winner for Fields maths medal (Update: She has passed)

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    The author wasn't accelerated or gifted as a child, so I though it odd that this seemed news for the accelerated/gifted board, s'all.

     

     

     

    "Mirzakhani became known to the international math scene as a teenager, winning gold medals at both the 1994 and 1995 International Math Olympiads – she finished with a perfect score in the latter competition. 

     

     

     

    Winning a gold medal at IMO suggests she was profoundly gifted as a high school student.

     

    Posting here seems entirely appropriate, since this is where parents of students aspiring to this sort of mathematical brilliance are most likely to read. 

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    I hate the term 'gifted'

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    Of course, this might change if I ever encounter a single person IRL that I could discuss te kid with!

     

    This is the thing that bothers me most about not having a term that's both widely understood and accepted. If we're all avoiding the g word, it's hard to identify fellow 'g parents' to discuss our kids with! Or to find kids with a similar level of intensity. 

    I hate the term 'gifted'

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    I agree. I follow "Gifted Homeschoolers Forum" on facebook, who often post interesting things I want to share with my friends, but I cringe when I think how some might interpret that word. I wish there could be a term which more accurately conveys 'quirky, intelligent, wildly asynchronous.....' 

    Dysgraphia.... What would you do?

    in The Learning Challenges Board

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    We use an ipad with a bluetooth keyboard. It's especially handy when the textbook has diagrams to copy & complete - just take a photo & annotate it on the ipad, then add it to the rest of the document where you're typing the other answers. We've just started using Word & it's much more versitile than Pages.  I haven't yet found something that works for maths, since Word on the ipad doesn't include the equation editor.

    Need book ideas for a 10-year old reading at high school level

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    I know, I know. He is just so sensitive, I thought he would like it. Well, I was wrong. :001_rolleyes:

     

     

    Thanks!  I always forget about short stories.  I usually get things on Gutenberg and put them on his Kindle. Have Twain's short stories been bundled?  It is such a pain to download them one by one.

    How about Saki? Our favourite short story is The Lumber Room.  

     

    Animal Farm, Watership Down.  I'm currently reading (or at least I was, until I made the mistake of taking it in the car en route to a friend's & now DD2 is reading it!) VIII by H.M. Castor, which is written from the POV of Henry VIII as a young boy through to adulthood and on. It's very engaging.

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