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    Re: Homeschooling: How to handle math?
    Texas Summer #45416 04/23/09 04:26 PM
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    I'm glad to read you agree with Dottie since I already ordered the Creative PRoblem solving (the first book)! grin
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    I think almost all my favorites have already been named... but there's one more -- Bletchley Park (British codebreaking center for WWII) has a set of excellent cryptography lesson plans on their website.

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    Ooooo! Thanks, Erica! That's one I haven't seen before. Next year we have more access to the Internet during school days, so I'll use that one. smile

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    Yes, the Bletchley stuff is fun--Harpo spent a lot of time on those lessons this year (they're printable, by the way, Kriston, so if you wanted to, you could print some off to use on days when you didn't have Internet access). Budding cryptanalysts might also like Simon Singh's "The Code Book," which is an excellent read, and has some codes to crack at the back of the book.

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    Originally Posted by minniemarx
    One more thought, Kimberly, given that he likes Fred--I read on another board that Stan Schmidt is writing another book to slide in between Decimals and Algebra--maybe it will be done in time for you? You could always email him and see how far along it is--he's very approachable.


    Thank you for the heads up, Minnie! I emailed Stan and he confirmed that there is another book coming, probably by the end of summer. It's one of 3 pre-algebra books he's planning, all from different angles (Biology, Economics and Physics). I think that might help us hold off Algebra for quite a while!
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    Thank you, Kimberly, for the update--not only one, but three, new Freds! Harpo will be thrilled! And it sounds like your son will be, too!

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    mamaandmore #45572 04/26/09 03:58 AM
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    OH OH OH, I thought Stan was a year away from publishing the Physics book. I'm happy to hear it might be out by the end of the summer!!! GO Stan GO!!!!
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    Originally Posted by Dazed&Confuzed
    OH OH OH, I thought Stan was a year away from publishing the Physics book. I'm happy to hear it might be out by the end of the summer!!! GO Stan GO!!!!


    No, it's the Biology one that he expects by the end of the summer, there wasn't an ETA for the other two. I'm sorry for the confusion (and sorry that we'll have to wait longer for the physics one- DS will *love* that)!
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    OH well, I'm sure biology will be great too!!! WOOHOO!!!
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