High School Subjects Self Taught

How about a book that is almost 1500 pages of information for your high schooler to self teach?

Yep, thought it might interest you, it did for me.

If you click the front piece it will take you to archive to pick a copy up.

Highschool Maths

     I don't know about you, but Maths is NOT my forte.  No sir, it isn't.  At the beginning of the year I ummed and ahhed as to whether or not to even homeschool the two big stay at home boys this year.  I actually got to the point where I said, "Nope, don't want to do it."  In the end hubby and I both agreed that they had to get a job.  Now yes, they did actually go and got a job each, BUT that job is only part time - at best, still at this point.  Soooooo, the long story short was that I still ended up having to homeschool them.  So for the first 12 weeks we've been using 'Understanding Year 9 & 10 Intermediate Maths'.  I dunno, not entirely happy with it.  Not me, not my sons.

     Fast forward to today - Ok, I can see this book is NOT working for you so I'll just go out to the carport and DIG up an OLD textbook that I have { I have a few }.  I bring it inside and discover that it has an awesome little CD sitting in the back, and on that little CD is a HEAP { over 300 skill sheet pages } and I think - YES, we can use those.  Sooooooo, we'll be jumping over to trying these out.  Please, please, please let this be the biggest math success they've had all highschool.   I'm tired of homeschooling out of my league.

Here's what my big boys will be doing over the next fortnight:

1. Addition and Subtraction of Integers
2. Multiplication and Division of Integers
3. Adding and Subtracting Decimals
4. Multiplying Decimals
5. Dividing Decimals
6. Simplifying Fractions
7. Multiplying Decimals
8. Simplifying Fractions
9. Converting an Improper Fraction to a Mixed Number
10. Converting a Mix Number into an Improper Fraction
11. Adding and Subtracting Fractions
12. Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
13. Converting a Percentage into a Decimal
14. Finding a Percentage of a Quantity
15. Calculating Index Notation
16. Ratios Involving Fractions
17. Conversion of Units

     I've printed them out and stapled them into two skills per set.   I figure they could cover 2 skills a day.  I've kept the answers separate for me.  All good to go.  :o)

     I'll let you all know how it goes next fortnight after we've had a really good go at them.

     Who knows, we may actually do MORE.  Now that would be something good.

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Back to Highschool

 

Just thought I'd come and share a couple of things that my highschoolers did this week so far, now that we are back to school.

 

We began poetry.  LOL

 

They have to copy a poem each week and give a recitation of it on Fridays.

 

 

This is what Caleb - 15 did for his.

 



 

This is what Daniel - 16 did for Art.  I was really happy with this because over the years the boys have pretty much been alergic to doing any form of art so I never pressed or forced them to do much.

 



 

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