Rays Arithmetic and high school

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  • June 2, 2017 at 10:00 pm
    CrystalN
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    I am seriously contemplating a switch to Rays, but I am afraid ds will not be where he needs to be. Looking through the books I feel like it is so thorough and I think it will be a good fit for him. My concern is we are coming off MUS, we are only halfway through Epsilon and he is about to be in 8th grade. I want to be ok with that, you can only move as fast as you can move right. The problem is I feel we should work through the Rays Practical (5/6 grade) because he hasnt covered most of the topics and those he has covered could use a little review. But that means he is in Rays Higher Math in 9th grade. What would I call that on a transcript. I was expecting Pre Algebra in 9th with MUS. But at least pre algebra seems respectable on a transcript, not so sure about “higher math”. I could maybe call it consumer math or practical math, it certainly is practical. Could I then skip pre algebra after the Rays higher math? Go right into Algebra 1? I have heard pre algebra is not really necessary. Anybody have any ideas? Should I just stay with MUS? He gets through it, but I am not sure any of it is really making its way into him, if that makes any sense. Am I doing him a disservice putting him in the lower level? HELP

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    Crystal

    June 3, 2017 at 3:30 pm
    art
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    I’m thinking about the same thing for my son going into 9th grade. He and his sister (one year older) both did MUS Pre-Algebra this last year, and she’s totally fine going into MUS Algebra. But the concepts didn’t become part of my son the way they did for my daughter. I would love to use Ray’s with him, because it fits his personality so much better. I/you could just call it Pre-Algebra because it certainly would prepare them for Algebra. Or just higher math. My older two kids got into college without showing a transcript, but I guess some colleges want to see one. I’m sure they are used to seeing creative names for classes especially from homeschooled students.

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