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fiberaddictJust got back from a hike - there's a small park just outside of town, with 2 lakes on it. We took Snips and hiked all the way around 1 lake, and partway around the other. 1.5 hours......I'm feeling good, not tired, and not stiff or sore. :win!: Snips is sound asleep on the floor. :lol:
I need to re-think Herself's Math. :sigh: DM 3A is just kicking her butt. Normally, I'd make her keep trying, but there's only so many times I can teach the same topic, y'know? (Quadratic Equations again - this time, solving them by completing the square. She just can NOT comprehend it - she's not faking, she's not trying to get out of it, she simply does NOT understand ANY of it.) I figure, she's NOT college-bound (there's.....realistically, she's not cut out for any type of college, unfortunately. MAYBE an Art School......but they'd have to make a lot of accommodations for her. *I* make them automatically, because I know her, and I'm used to her...idiosyncrasies, but I don't think a faceless school would be as forgiving. (No, I'm not sheltering her, and No, I'm not being "mean". It's just the way it is. I'm hoping to get her to a point where she *could* live on her own....but it's going to take a LOT. And she has to want to learn the things......and right now, she doesn't.)
I'm thinking some sort of consumer-type Math. Anyone out there got any suggestions? I'd like a "real" book, because Texas requires 4 years of High School Math, and I want to have a plan to follow. Checkbook balancing, budgets - that sort of thing. Websites would work, if they have a checklist to follow - I work in accounting, so I feel qualified to teach this stuff, but I want to make sure I don't miss anything. (Plus, I do better with a textbook in front of me. Even if I add to it. :wink:) (Anna, I have you to thank for this - your posts have made me really LOOK at what she needs. Himself, I'll have tag-along. :wink:)
Speaking of Anna's current posts.....my 5th grade teacher spent an entire semester teaching us how to write checks, balance checkbooks, set up a basic budget...and I am ETERNALLY grateful to him for that. Otherwise, I'd have been clueless when I got my first job/got out on my own. Thanks to him, I've been able to go almost my whole life without any overdrafts (just once, when I made a mathematical error; I've since learned how to double-check my balances.). AND - he was adamant about NO CREDIT CARDS. I failed that for a while, but I am happy to say that *I* have no credit cards at all. (SG, on the other hand....we're working on it. I had him all paid off last year, but Mike and co. kinda threw a wrench into that. :sigh:)
Anyway, I need recommendations, please! She wants to do Art, so I need to make sure she knows how to track her expenses/profits and can budget accordingly. Yes, I can teach her this stuff, but - again! - I do better if I have a "plan of action" laid out in front of me that I can check off. ("Do the next thing" is my favorite way of planning. I LOVE sitting down with the textbooks and dropping each day's bit on my lesson plan. So nice and tidy! :lol:)
Oh! Our town had a *Gun Show* this weekend (if you want to call it that. :snicker:) $5 to get into the County Fair building (yes, 1). Maybe...25 tables. All the handguns were WAY overpriced; most of the rifles, too. There was 1 guy with shotguns that were reasonable. Ammo was WAY WAY WAY overpriced (seriously, $40 for 15 rounds of 9mm. Academy sells 50-round boxes for $9.99, when they can get it. :blink: I think the last hollow-points I saw (at our "local" gun store) were $25 for 20)
Not much else going on. We've made it to Unit 2 of Rosetta Stone (and they throw you in the deep end! The first lesson - the "core" - was HARD! All 3 of us made 88's on it......not bad, but not the 95+ we've been doing.)
Catch ya later!
I need to re-think Herself's Math. :sigh: DM 3A is just kicking her butt. Normally, I'd make her keep trying, but there's only so many times I can teach the same topic, y'know? (Quadratic Equations again - this time, solving them by completing the square. She just can NOT comprehend it - she's not faking, she's not trying to get out of it, she simply does NOT understand ANY of it.) I figure, she's NOT college-bound (there's.....realistically, she's not cut out for any type of college, unfortunately. MAYBE an Art School......but they'd have to make a lot of accommodations for her. *I* make them automatically, because I know her, and I'm used to her...idiosyncrasies, but I don't think a faceless school would be as forgiving. (No, I'm not sheltering her, and No, I'm not being "mean". It's just the way it is. I'm hoping to get her to a point where she *could* live on her own....but it's going to take a LOT. And she has to want to learn the things......and right now, she doesn't.)
I'm thinking some sort of consumer-type Math. Anyone out there got any suggestions? I'd like a "real" book, because Texas requires 4 years of High School Math, and I want to have a plan to follow. Checkbook balancing, budgets - that sort of thing. Websites would work, if they have a checklist to follow - I work in accounting, so I feel qualified to teach this stuff, but I want to make sure I don't miss anything. (Plus, I do better with a textbook in front of me. Even if I add to it. :wink:) (Anna, I have you to thank for this - your posts have made me really LOOK at what she needs. Himself, I'll have tag-along. :wink:)
Speaking of Anna's current posts.....my 5th grade teacher spent an entire semester teaching us how to write checks, balance checkbooks, set up a basic budget...and I am ETERNALLY grateful to him for that. Otherwise, I'd have been clueless when I got my first job/got out on my own. Thanks to him, I've been able to go almost my whole life without any overdrafts (just once, when I made a mathematical error; I've since learned how to double-check my balances.). AND - he was adamant about NO CREDIT CARDS. I failed that for a while, but I am happy to say that *I* have no credit cards at all. (SG, on the other hand....we're working on it. I had him all paid off last year, but Mike and co. kinda threw a wrench into that. :sigh:)
Anyway, I need recommendations, please! She wants to do Art, so I need to make sure she knows how to track her expenses/profits and can budget accordingly. Yes, I can teach her this stuff, but - again! - I do better if I have a "plan of action" laid out in front of me that I can check off. ("Do the next thing" is my favorite way of planning. I LOVE sitting down with the textbooks and dropping each day's bit on my lesson plan. So nice and tidy! :lol:)
Oh! Our town had a *Gun Show* this weekend (if you want to call it that. :snicker:) $5 to get into the County Fair building (yes, 1). Maybe...25 tables. All the handguns were WAY overpriced; most of the rifles, too. There was 1 guy with shotguns that were reasonable. Ammo was WAY WAY WAY overpriced (seriously, $40 for 15 rounds of 9mm. Academy sells 50-round boxes for $9.99, when they can get it. :blink: I think the last hollow-points I saw (at our "local" gun store) were $25 for 20)
Not much else going on. We've made it to Unit 2 of Rosetta Stone (and they throw you in the deep end! The first lesson - the "core" - was HARD! All 3 of us made 88's on it......not bad, but not the 95+ we've been doing.)
Catch ya later!
from ali
Date: 2013-01-27 10:54 pm (UTC)Not me so much but...
hey - the math thing - you know I was not happy in math mostly because I didn't know how it could be useful but here is a page that tells some of th eHow and Why behind it! Nice!
http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/quadratic-equation-real-world.html
My sister is even mor eof a math-a-phob - but I want to get her these books: http://www.danicamckellar.com/store/
no subject
Date: 2013-01-28 05:09 am (UTC)Since she is so ridiculously talented in drawing, why not look into internships and apprenticeships? If, perchance, she wanted to make her bread and butter doing illustrations ... I'm pretty sure they just care what you can draw, not what the pieces of paper say you can do. Photoshop classes would be a must. I could ask a friend of mine who is in art school what the market for illustrators is these days?
As for math classes now, does Accounting count as math in TX? It might well, and you're right - she will need those skills. - H