We all ran down to Panda Express to have our Valentine’s Day dinner rather than have Lorena cook at home last night. It was really nice, but we had to work fast when we got home to catch up on our homeschool. I looked at the Math the kids are doing a little more closely and found that I was a little off, so I adjusted our chart. It looks like we will be able to slow down a little by the end of next year. The idea is that if I get the kids a year ahead of the program, then they will be able to finish first year calculus by the end of their sophomore year in high school. After that, they can take the same class again for credit at the community college their junior year in high school. They will be well prepared for the math part of the SAT their senior and can even take differential equations and linear algebra if they are so inclined.
Hey hey, calculus is usually taught over 2 years in high school…there
are even 2 AP tests for it. Lots of colleges now offer classes specifically
for students who have taken both years of calculus in high school. (I think
this is usually just a third year of calculus…multivariable.)
You really don’t need any calculus for the SAT. It’s mostly algebra
and geometry.
I have a job where I do nothing, so shoot me an e-mail!
Yay math!