Homeschooling Works! Wonderful feedback, Cindi!! You are so very right. That's one of the awesome things about homeschooling. Lee will love reading your kind comment! I'm going to talk about after homeschooling is over. But after calculus 1 those formulas are reasoned through infintesimal slices of shapes, and their limits, not memorized.
So if rote memorization causes annoyances that's one factor. Depending on how far your homeschooler is going; I have a technical degree and a business one, alg2, geo, trig, calc makes sense from the technical point of view. From the business side I need to be able to describe and aim at a market segment, or control some management metric, and geo and trig and calc are skippable. Statistics could be deeply understood after calculus and trig identities helps with calculus, and dang!
If you get into projects that require more you outsource some sort of a mathmatician or matlab ninja.
I like how when thinking about doing adjustments to your high schoolers curricullum you are thinking longer term end results. What a leg up. We are pretty much through Pre Algebra and Algebra I and now my daughter is totally burnt out on Algebra. So we decided to take a break from Algebra and do Geometry. I think we are going to try Teaching Textbooks because I've heard so many of my friends families love it.
From all that I have read, the section of the brain that deals with algebraic thinking develops later. For that reason it is usually better to interrupt the Algebra classes with Geometry. My oldest did Alg. The logic and type of thinking required for Geometry was a perfect fit for her, especially since TT is so strong with the logic and proofs Key to Geometry is not!
She then went to Saxon for Algebra II her choice out of the many out there and had her best year ever. She was well prepared for the Algebra, but not burnt out, and she didn't have to "learn" the geometry while she was also learning the Algebra II. Lee, I was discussing this very subject this afternoon with 2 moms. The question I asked was, what comes after Algebra I?
Both of them said geometry without hesitation. One mom uses Math U See, the other Saxon, but the Saxon mom has 2 that are younger than my daughter, and they will be doing algebra I next year. My daughter really enjoys the geometry part and loves to figure out the surface areas of geometric shapes. They make my head spin. So I will probably go the geometry route to help algebra settle in her brain a bit.
Thanks for that suggestion. I will look into Jacobs. Search - Quix. Subscribe to this blog post Unsubscribe. Homeschool Math. Wednesday, 06 May Register for my free class and learn the keys to home high school success no matter how challenging the topics or your teens can be! The 12 Keys to High School Success Webinar Just know that, Geometry is completely different from algebra, much like biology is different from chemistry. Click Here to Join my Newsletter!
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The bottom line is students can take Algebra 2 in 9th, 10th or 11th grade. Look up the course catalog at the school where you want to student teach and see when most of the kids are taking that class. At our high school the college bound kids would have taken Algebra 2 as sophomores. To do well in geometry, you need to keep up with the theorems and definitions, and learn to show every step of your work. Other people choose to continue on to Algebra 2 first to do it while algebra skills are still fresh.
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