Are you answering your own question here

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and has expressed exasperation at the 'slow/painful' process of using algebra to "approximate" (her term) solutions to classical mechanics problems in Physics this year.

So maybe I'm selling her short on the AoPS approach. I dunno. It just seems like she is seldom willing to spend any time cranking through the mechanics unless the problems themselves are pretty interesting to her.

If she wants the right answer to the physics problems, then calculus is what she needs.

I know you said she doesn't learn online well, but maybe you could do this and use itto teach her as she learns calculus.

https://www.edx.org/course/mit/8-01x/classical-mechanics/853

Last edited by Tallulah; 05/28/13 07:39 PM.