re: #378 vxbush

No, thank goodness. My kids are out of school. They tried to segregate the more math-capable kids for a while in junior high to see if they could learn at their own pace, but I got tripped up by percentages because the books taught three different formulas instead of just one and showed how to manipulate the one equation to find the other two. Someone who was a true math teacher might have been able to see this and teach me, but we had someone babysit us who, again, didn’t have any math ability.

I tried desperately with my kids to teach them enough math at home that they wouldn’t have trouble in school. I actually taught my daughter pre-algebra over the summer so she could start in algebra in the fall. She didn’t like me as a teacher. :D

It sounds like “learn at your own pace,” in practice, became “we don’t have anyone qualified to teach you.” When I got bored, they gave me extra book reports to do. I got so disenchanted with academics that I barely passed high school.

It’s very lucky you had the ability to give your kids the extra attention in math. I wish you’d been around when I was homeschooling my oldest and neither one of us understood it. ;)