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High School Math – can't do it all?
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Need help. What do you do when you have a child who is in high school and not able to follow the Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, etc. for the high school years? Here’s 2 examples:
1. Child is not even in close to Algebra 1 by 9th grade and yet is doing well, moving along and you feel ok with that. BUT he’ll not be able to write what a typical child in HS would have by the time he’s ready to graduate?
2. Child is doing well finishes Algebra 1, and Geometry, but is not college bound at all and Algebra 2 is just not clicking? What other options for math subjects could we do? Could we do a small business math? Accounting?
2. Accounting, business math, Stewardship or consumer math, or if you are creative math history or others.
Have you looked into VideoText Interactive for math? There is an Algebra course which covers Pre algebra, algebra 1 and 2, and is done over two years. Then they can do the Geometry course – another two years.
My son is a long ways off from this, so I am not speaking from personal experience. I did speak to the creator of the program (Tom Clark) at TTD Nashville and it is definitely on my radar for down the road. He recommends when a student completes the Algebra course they go to their college and test out of college algebra. Same for geometry.
HTHI don’t really have answers but wanted to say that I think my 2nd will be in this situation. She has really struggled through algebra — we’ve spent 2 years on it. I have a book for geometry next year which emphasizes art so I hope that will work for her but I juts don’t know about algebra 2. It is frustrating to know that she will never really use this math but that colleges expect to see it. That’s really our only reason to force her to do it. I am planning to do a lot more practical math with her. She already has her own business on etsy (creationsbymaris.etsy.com) so accounting/practical math is something she needs and I think she will do better with it since she sees the point of it. I guess my question, to add to yours, would be can one get into nay colleges without Algebra 2 and above??
Nebby
My DD struggles with math. We use MUS and my current plans for her high school years are Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II, and Stewardship. In order for her to do that, we have to complete another level of MUS this summer and 2 levels next year for 9th grade. I’m not sure if that’s going to happen or not. I’m not pushing her, which does nothing but bring her to tears anyway. She struggles so much with new concepts, but once she get’s it figured out, she does okay.
I was just reading that they still get one credit for math…whether it takes them 3 months for 2 years to complete Algebra. I found some comfort in that! We will continue along, working year round in math and see where she ends up. At the moment I have no plans for her doing trigonometry or calculus, and honestly I’ve never used it since completing high school…I have used basic algebra and basic geometry though so I’d at least like to make it through those two levels.
I think I would just keep moving a long and trying to help my child understand all they could. Maybe try the Key To series for some remedial work and further understanding?
That is my plan with my daughter. I pushed my son a long through the maths because I knew that was what colleges would expect to see on a transcript. He struggled a lot. I decided not to go that route with my daughter. We work a certain amount of time each day on math and she accomplishes whatever she accomplishes. My plan is to keep plugging along through the regular math courses, doing what she can at her own pace. We just finished 7th grade this week but she is still working in Math U See Zeta. I’m not worried. When she finishes Zeta, we will move on to Pre Algebra and continue on. If she only gets through Algebra 1, I’m okay with that. But, if she is able to finish it with understanding, we will move on to Geometry and see how far we can get through that.
I plan on using the Key To series if she gets stumped along with Khan academy. We will stop when she is ready to graduate highschool and whatever she has accomplished will go on her transcript with no qualms from me. I will be proud of her for accomplishing what she was able to and doing her best.
I will say that I have no plans to go past Algebra 2 if we get that far. I would do Math-U-See stewardship at that point. That is unless my daughter is able to do pre calc and calculus and wants to/needs to for her future plans.
I’m not sure concerning your older son. I might switch to a stewardship, business math, or personal finance class at this point.
Community colleges, for the most part, just want your money. If your child doesn’t do well on the math portions of their tests, they will simply have to take remedial math courses. Many students from private and public schools have to take remedial math courses. It’s not uncommon.
Thank you ladies for that encouragement that math doesn’t have to be so cut and dry. I guess sometimes you just need another mother to say it’s ok it doesn’t have to “look” like all the other kids classes. I needed to hear that today and I thank you for sharing about your own kids, cause many times I look around and see my own kids and other kids who are doing fine in math and feel like this one son is going to be so much worse off. But I know in my heart he will not be, he will be just fine. I finished all levels of math. I love math, went on to accounting, bookkeeping and the such so this is very much a teaching lesson for me from God. I believe my son is wonderfully made and in God’s image so who I am to say anything against that. I am going to keep believing and stop comparing he is beautiful (don’t tell him I called him beautiful though :0)!
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