Excelsior! Academy Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Our dc are doing a separate economics course, but did do LoF Pre-Algebra 2 with economics. Would YOU give credit for this book if you didn't do a separate Econ. course? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 (edited) Maybe this is a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway: since prealgebra is not a high school level course, but typically taken in middle school, could the economics part of it even be high school level since the book would be geared towards a younger audience?? Edited May 18, 2012 by regentrude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior! Academy Posted May 18, 2012 Author Share Posted May 18, 2012 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 I would not. We have used the LOF pre-algebra biology course. While it was a nice approach for math, I can't imagine it would warrant any credit in the science department. Unless the economics book is vastly different I would feel the same. I do think the author states it differently, but .5 credit amounts to 50-75 hours of work in that subject. If she did that amount of time I might give credit for the MATH, but not the economics. I would only award credit for math if that is where her working level was at, pre-algebra, not if it was done as a fun aside in addition to a regular math text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 I don't think it is long or thorough enough to be considered high school level work. My son completed that book in a school year. I scheduled the book for once per week for about 45 mins at most. That is a generous estimate of 28.5 hours. If you put it on a book list/transcript and a college admissions person checks it out, they would see the book is recommended for grades 6-8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 No. While I think the book is a great introduction it is definately middle school. More work is needed to be economics on a transcript. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Our dc are doing a separate economics course, but did do LoF Pre-Algebra 2 with economics. Would YOU give credit for this book if you didn't do a separate Econ. course? My 8th grade ds used both Fred pre-algebra books this year before moving into algebra. I did not consider the economics portion of LoF to be high school worthy, and even if I did, there was not enough content to call it even .25 credit. I'm not super picky on number of hours to constitute a course, but this fell way below the bar, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 You can add Khan Academy clips, there are quite a few for economics. Some are difficult, but we found a few categories very interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior! Academy Posted May 19, 2012 Author Share Posted May 19, 2012 Just curious. We didn't think it did hence the reason for the separate Econ. course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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