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 Post subject: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:04 pm 
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My dd it not a math person. She's even said she wants to quit school just to avoid doing math...
She's slowly, painfully, working her way through TT algebra I. She's 11th grade now.
I'm looking for next year. If I switch her from TT will it cause even more confusion for her??
So I dump Algebra altogether and let her do something else for math?
If so, what?
(she's a reader, artist, dreamer type personality and math is her weak area.)


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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:15 pm 
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My daughter is also an artist, and math was a struggle for her. Skye is 32 years old now, has a MFA in sculpture, lives in new York City, and really does make a living as an artist.
Back to high school. I would concentrate on the math your daughter needs for her future. What does she plan? If she plans on college, she will have to pass college algebra at some point. But if she plans on a technical degree, she may get by with less.
My two suggestions are math for life. Checkbooks, banking, recipes, multiplication for purchases. that kind of stuff. The math all adults have to do just to get by in society. Someone else needs to make a recommendation for an actual current curriculum of such stuff.
The other suggestion is geometry. Not the proofs kind, but shapes. This comes under the realm of art. My suggestion is Jacobs geometry, because it is more on the fun side. But again, someone who has done this more recently should make a recommendation. My daughter loved geometry and thought it was not really math compared to algebra. My daughter ended up doing the following list of math. Algebra 1 (8th grade) and didn't fully grasp it. Geometry in 9th grade, Algebra 1 again in 10th grade, because she had not really understood it before, then a college algebra text, entry level because she just needed to be prepared to pass college algebra. We worked on that text for all of 11th grade and part of 12th grade. That was as far as she got. She struggled in college, but managed an A in the first semester of college Algebra, and that was all she ever needed to pass. She does pretty will in the "math of life" stuff.


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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:30 am 
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What Kysa said. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:15 am 
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Tory wrote:
My dd it not a math person. She's even said she wants to quit school just to avoid doing math...
She's slowly, painfully, working her way through TT algebra I. She's 11th grade now.
I'm looking for next year. If I switch her from TT will it cause even more confusion for her??
So I dump Algebra altogether and let her do something else for math?
If so, what?
(she's a reader, artist, dreamer type personality and math is her weak area.)

Also, you would need to see what your state requirements are for graduation. If Algebra 1 has been her only math course, and she still needs two more years of math (or three), then, she will need to "struggle" through Algebra 1 and "get it done." If this is her last course, then drop it, and take a consumer math, how to balance your checkbook stuff.

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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:05 pm 
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They need 2 years of high school math to graduate. It doesn't specify which math as far as I can tell.
If anyone in GA knows anything differently .. please pass on the info.

Ok as for dd. She said she would continue the Algebra 1 throught summer to finish it.
Then I'm thinking something else for next year to make her 2 years requirement for graduation.


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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:07 am 
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Sorry, just saw this,
DD is an art person also, her major is considered liberal arts, and the math she had to take because she did not get all of it on the entrance exam, was three kinds of algebra, and now for liberal arts, Math for liberal arts, which has no algebra, is a bunch of junk as far as we are concerned, and it is hard for her , and she did great in all the algebra classes she took.
Is she going to college? she will still have math , period.

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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:33 am 
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Have her take whatever is helpful for her future as an adult - like consumer math. If she decides on college, she can test at the college and see where she needs to be placed for their program and start from there.


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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 4:47 pm 
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She goes to college, she will do math for LIberal arts.
mainly banking, interest, statistics, stuff that she may use. DD hates that class but will finish it in two weeks.
She goes to college she will take classes that they say she needs for a rounded education, all the math, DD has had now 4 math classes three that she had in high school.
If they donot say what she is to take by your state homeschooling. I would do algebra and geometry.

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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 4:56 pm 
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Major breakthrough!!
UGH. I just found out today that dd has not been using the solution cd's!!
No wonder she's struggling!!

I had to explain to her AGAIN that these cd's are here for HER TO USE.
NOT for her to put aside and forget about.


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 Post subject: Re: Is it ok to switch math for Sr year?
PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 6:25 pm 
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Hopefully that will help.

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