yellowperch Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 (edited) My ds started in September and is now in Section 5. So far so good. I'm just curious about how far much of the program other students have worked through in first third of their academic year--not to compare :tongue_smilie: but looking for some points of info. I'm also curious about how much of the program the on-line course has completed. Edited December 3, 2011 by yellowperch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 We're in the 3rd section of pre-alg classes. We started week of Oct 11. The course runs through Feb 14. We are are 4.2. For Tuesday's class, sections 4.1-4.5 are due. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Dd started in September, using the book only. At the moment, she's in the summary exercises for ch 4, so she'll be starting ch 5 early next week. We are going slowly, in part due to scheduling issues (she attends a one-day-per-week PS program for homeschoolers, and it's been difficult to get a whole day's worth of math done on those days; then there are all those days off, as we're following her brothers' school schedule). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deniseibase Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 We started in late August, pretty much as soon as the book came out. We're in Section 5.2 right now. She does AoPS four days a week and 'something else' on Mondays (she is at her dad's on Mondays and he's not much of a teacher, so I have to send over stuff she can do on her own). I have to confess tho, we are probably not as diligent with the challenge exercises as we could be - the chapter work and regular exercises I make her do until she gets them correct, but the challenge exercises we usually just take two runs at, and if she's still completely at sea after two tries, we just go over the answer and explain it. We spend about an hour a day on math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deniseibase Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Oh, also, in case you are interested, I sat down yesterday to flip through the book and try to figure out where we'll be if we keep going at this rate. It looks like we'll be done with Chapter 6 by Christmas break (Chapter 6 is decimals, one of the easier chapters, and I think we can do it pretty quick - Chapters 1 & 5 have been the hardest so far!), and if we can keep going at something like the rate we've been going at, we should be done right about the time we wrap up our school year. I'm calculating this with an average of two days per section and three extra days at the end of each chapter for the review and challenge problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 DD is currently taking Prealgebra 1 online. The class is scheduled to finish Ch. 6 before Christmas break, and Ch. 7 before the end of class on Jan. 11th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 My dd started the end of October. We've had a family crises which halted school for a while so I have no idea how much school she did for the first couple of weeks of November. She's doing the summary of Chapter 1 right now. She has worked every example and every problem so far which is a first for her for math programs, and she still loves it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisperry Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 The end of chapter 3. We are going back and forth between this and an easier pre-algebra text (that was my husband's). She needs the rudimentary practice in the easier book and then does the AoPS problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalea Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 My son started in September and is at the end of Chapter 4. He is using the book alone not the online class. I read the section notes with him and we solve the section problems together, then he does the end of the section questions by himself. I had hoped we would get further but my son is also taking the Intro to Programming online course which has taken a lot of his time, but has been a great experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diviya Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 We started some time in September and we just finished 5.5. Chapters 1 and 2 were really slow, as she had to get used to the new way of thinking. Now we do a section about every 1-2 days, and take about 3 days for the chapter ends. I've definitely seen an improvement in how she thinks and I'm so happy we decided to do this book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquinas Academy Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 DS 10 started mid-October, but stopped for a few weeks when the baby was born. He's in the middle of chapter 2 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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