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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 172838" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Sue, you said, "I did tell him that if he shows for home visit this weekend, we can go pick up an ACT prep book. He also wants help with geometry (any takers out there????) - my alltime most horrible subject ever. I don't think husband did too much better than I did, but we'll give it a try."</p><p></p><p>We found a computer software package (really cheap) which we bought for difficult child 3, at about the time we were pulling him out of mainstream (and the correspondence package hadn't yet arrived). He used it in the meantime. The package was little more than concentrated revision notes set up like a web page. I can't find the name of it right now because husband had it installed on our OLD computer and somehow it hasn't made it across to the new one. Or if it has, I can't find it.</p><p></p><p>And for only a little more (the disk was A$60; this website is A$99) you can register him for a year with Mathletics, an Aussie-based curriculum which should be fairly capable of supporting a US curriculum also. The big thing would be, because it's Aussie based all measurements would be in metric. This would probably be easier for him to get the principles, anyway. </p><p>Mathletics follows the Aussie school system from K-12. You can specify which grade the kid is in, and if they find it too easy you email them and ask to be put up to a higher grade (or go back the other way). And the Aussie high school system goes beyond the US one, I think. Our kids graduate high school at a level of work which I believe US kids are doing in college. I remember when I went to uni - a lot of the 1st year uni work was repetition of what we'd done in school in our last two years. Our high school kids don't graduate until they're 17 or 18, and I believe the work is age-equivalent, between Aust & the US.</p><p>Another option - you could contact Mathletics and ask their advice on what is available that could be more suited to a US curriculum.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 uses Mathletics - his high school got him onto it, but unfortunately by the time we were able to properly access it, they had gone in a different direction and so it now boils down to whatever difficult child 3 will do in his own time, which currently isn't much - he spends all his school hours time just getting his main curriculum work done, with no time left over for Mathletics. But he does enjoy it, when he gets to it. And we know they have kids enrolled all over the world. Sometimes they have special days or weeks when the kids can log on and challenge other kids at the same grade level to a pop quiz, to see who wins! The more the kids do, the more rewards they get.</p><p></p><p>It's A$99 per year, you don't buy software or anything. We did find, though, that we needed to have our computer up to date and have good broadband (which is why difficult child 3 didn't get to use it much when we first were put onto it at school). Because it's a website, it doesn't matter if you're Mac or easy child. Also, the website access is 24/7.</p><p></p><p>Have a look at the website, there are levels which I think you can access to help work out his grade level.</p><p></p><p>And look around, ask around. There must be others more directed to a US curriculum. But if not, or if they are all ridiculously expensive - this one is well worth it.</p><p></p><p>It would also be cheaper than tutoring. If you can find a US one for a similar price, you could also get the associated service of tutor available over the phone during business hours - we've got that but we've never had to use it, apart from sorting out the problems we had with access.</p><p></p><p>There is another system around which costs thousands. We checked tat one out as well. I won't name it here so they won't sue me, but I think you may know the one I mean. They come out and do a demo in your home (which must cost them a lot, which would need to be recovered). We looked at it for easy child and then later for difficult child 3 and found it hadn't evolved enough. We also would have had to buy a new computer (easy child) because it is not Mac compatible. They install it on your computer and if you ever need to get a new computer, they uninstall it from the old one before they will install it on the new one. We found Mathletics to be even better (for us) for a fifth to a tenth the cost.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, that's just our experience. It's a thought. You could find similar stuff even better suited.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 172838, member: 1991"] Sue, you said, "I did tell him that if he shows for home visit this weekend, we can go pick up an ACT prep book. He also wants help with geometry (any takers out there????) - my alltime most horrible subject ever. I don't think husband did too much better than I did, but we'll give it a try." We found a computer software package (really cheap) which we bought for difficult child 3, at about the time we were pulling him out of mainstream (and the correspondence package hadn't yet arrived). He used it in the meantime. The package was little more than concentrated revision notes set up like a web page. I can't find the name of it right now because husband had it installed on our OLD computer and somehow it hasn't made it across to the new one. Or if it has, I can't find it. And for only a little more (the disk was A$60; this website is A$99) you can register him for a year with Mathletics, an Aussie-based curriculum which should be fairly capable of supporting a US curriculum also. The big thing would be, because it's Aussie based all measurements would be in metric. This would probably be easier for him to get the principles, anyway. Mathletics follows the Aussie school system from K-12. You can specify which grade the kid is in, and if they find it too easy you email them and ask to be put up to a higher grade (or go back the other way). And the Aussie high school system goes beyond the US one, I think. Our kids graduate high school at a level of work which I believe US kids are doing in college. I remember when I went to uni - a lot of the 1st year uni work was repetition of what we'd done in school in our last two years. Our high school kids don't graduate until they're 17 or 18, and I believe the work is age-equivalent, between Aust & the US. Another option - you could contact Mathletics and ask their advice on what is available that could be more suited to a US curriculum. difficult child 3 uses Mathletics - his high school got him onto it, but unfortunately by the time we were able to properly access it, they had gone in a different direction and so it now boils down to whatever difficult child 3 will do in his own time, which currently isn't much - he spends all his school hours time just getting his main curriculum work done, with no time left over for Mathletics. But he does enjoy it, when he gets to it. And we know they have kids enrolled all over the world. Sometimes they have special days or weeks when the kids can log on and challenge other kids at the same grade level to a pop quiz, to see who wins! The more the kids do, the more rewards they get. It's A$99 per year, you don't buy software or anything. We did find, though, that we needed to have our computer up to date and have good broadband (which is why difficult child 3 didn't get to use it much when we first were put onto it at school). Because it's a website, it doesn't matter if you're Mac or easy child. Also, the website access is 24/7. Have a look at the website, there are levels which I think you can access to help work out his grade level. And look around, ask around. There must be others more directed to a US curriculum. But if not, or if they are all ridiculously expensive - this one is well worth it. It would also be cheaper than tutoring. If you can find a US one for a similar price, you could also get the associated service of tutor available over the phone during business hours - we've got that but we've never had to use it, apart from sorting out the problems we had with access. There is another system around which costs thousands. We checked tat one out as well. I won't name it here so they won't sue me, but I think you may know the one I mean. They come out and do a demo in your home (which must cost them a lot, which would need to be recovered). We looked at it for easy child and then later for difficult child 3 and found it hadn't evolved enough. We also would have had to buy a new computer (easy child) because it is not Mac compatible. They install it on your computer and if you ever need to get a new computer, they uninstall it from the old one before they will install it on the new one. We found Mathletics to be even better (for us) for a fifth to a tenth the cost. Anyway, that's just our experience. It's a thought. You could find similar stuff even better suited. Marg [/QUOTE]
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