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To: JenB
Still interested in being educated on homeschooling? My experiences were a lot like Rosie's. My mom really tailored the program for each of us (and continues to do so for the little boys), so I was more math-and-essay oriented,

So what'd you do for math?--I'm always looking for better ways to learn/teach math.

The best thing about homeschooling is that it's customizable. Plus, if you wake up one week and decide that you want Friday off, you work ahead and get all your Friday assignments done, and spend Friday reading "Dune". Until I was in high school, we'd get done before noon and I'd spend the afternoons in a book.

In high school, my mom wanted more 'hours' of work out of me. I'm not sure whether she ever guessed that math took me an hour because for half that time I was reading...

That's kind of what I'd do, except I did it in school :) I'd do all my homework in class 1st hour while the teacher was lecturing on stuff I already knew, then the rest of the day in my other classes I'd read LotR and comic books and work on designing D&D modules :) In retrospect it was a psychological defense mechanism against being bored silly.

You'll have mail later on tonight. I had a very productive lunch hour.

Cool! Looking forward to seeing the next chapter/s. I got a little more done last night.

13,305 posted on 03/09/2004 2:35:58 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Math was easy! I don't remember what we did until fourth grade, but after that we used the math bibles - Saxon Math. Saxon 54 up through, for me, Advanced Mathematics - and then I started in on Precalc at the community college.

Saxon's absolutely wonderful. It was the only thing my mom did standard for all of us - every sib has to do Saxon up to at least Algebra 2.
13,307 posted on 03/09/2004 2:46:15 PM PST by JenB
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