My sister homeschooled her two children.
She dropped out of college during her sophomore year to get married.
A few years later, whilst homeschooling, she got stuck on a rather complex volume integration program and called me for help.
1. She described the problem to me on the phone well enough for me to diagram the problem and work out the solution.
2. It turns out her solution was essentially correct - her only error was to misinterpret the integral limits - which caused her answer to be off by one integral value of pi.
Not bad for a home schooling, non college grad mom.
Oh, the Obamadork/felon would NEVER have been able to begin to understand that problem.
Very impressive. I went to engineering school, and I can't remember a thing about Calculus. ;-)
But I want to tell people that are considering homeschooling not to worry about math. You start with phonics. Teaching kids to read, which takes 2-4 weeks. Maybe 10 hours total. It's pretty much a smooth glide after that.
By age ten, our kids studied on their own. Their motivation: when they were done, they could go out and play. You'd be surprised how fast they learn...
Worry about the Trig bridge if and when you get there. Neither of my daughters are interested in math, and the oldest stopped after Trig, which is actually pretty easy.
Math fear is school induced, but that's a subject for another time.