By the time most students make it to their senior year, they not only have some idea of where they want to go in life, but they have many have parents, advisers, and friends whose advice is helping to guide them towards their dream. As a high school senior, you more than likely have some experience in your “chosen field”, which can prove invaluable as you take the next steps after graduation.

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For many of you the path ahead will require some schooling and several of you will need to go to college. But the unsettling trend among the majority of students (and their parents) is that instead of choosing college because it is something they need, they treat college like the 13th grade. They assume college is just the next step in academics, but rarely does a student take the time to stop and think about why they’re going or what they want to do there. Most parents/students just dive head first into picking the college they think is coolest, what gives them the biggest discount, or where their friends are going. Most parents and students I know don’t even worry about what degrees are available, what kind of education they need, or how the college education impacts their life goals.

This lack of thought concerning college is unfortunate because the raw facts of the matter are that college is expensive, a considerable time commitment, and that fancy degree becomes essentially worthless if you aren’t able to use that education to reach your bigger life goals.

So as you prepare for that high school graduation— or if you’re heading into your senior year here in the next few weeks— take time to define your goals and what you WANT from life. Not all careers need a college degree, especially in the world of the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates entrepreneurship. So as you take that university leap make sure that the steps you are taking in education are the ones that will enhance, encourage, support, and hopefully accelerate, your journey to the career you WANT. College can be a great experience, so make sure it works for you instead of just wasting your time (and money) on something you might not need.

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But more than likely we are aware of your dilemma and have them in mail to you already!

We are shipping out the backordered disks by Monday (April 19, 2010), and they are all later disks, not the first one you will need, so you should be fine as far as keeping pace with the course, etc.

Feel free to contact us if you have questions! We are here to help

Other errors in the Teacher’s Guide (both versions 3 and 4) are listed on our Homework Help website. Click here to be navigated to the Algebra page of Homework Help. Scroll down to “Test 5″ and click on the link there. It will open a pdf which if you download and open will describe the errors and how to fix them.

• Have a bake sale. Make real “pies” with the Pi symbol on top.
• Have contests of which students can memorize the most digits of pi and give a prize to the winner.
• Have a pie throwing contest. Have the “math teacher” be the target. Ask questions about pi, and the students who answer correctly get a chance to chunk a pie at the teacher
• naturally, we also suggest baking and EATING your favorite pie.

Write us and let us know how YOU celebrate the International Day of Pi.
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Several students have contacted us in the last week or so asking about their geometry course problems. Specifically they’ve been asking about the real world example problems.

There are problems in Chapter 14 that ask students to consider that the map for cell tower and cell phone coverage is a series of hexagon shapes laid together and forming a honeycomb look. The book makes this statement and then goes on to ask a series of questions about hexagons and geometric propery application with each problem building on the last problem until you arrive finally at a rather complex conclusion.

An activity you might consider to spice up these problems: Make time to allow students to look up the real cell towers, visit a library to find schematics, or talk with an expert. You might visit a cell phone company’s website and explore what their “coverage area” really means. Have students combine the information into a report and give points for being able to include not only the concepts they are learning from Chapter 14, but perhaps a demonstrative “honey comb” drawing as well.

When they arrived at these Chapter 14 problems, my homework help students flooded me with emails.

“Mrs. Cash! Mrs. Cash! I don’t get it!! I don’t know anything about cell towers!!!”

“Take Heart!”, I told them, “Learning how to contruct cell towers is not the point here. Breathe.  ok. Now let me show you what you are supposed to be learning. ”

Here is an excerpt of our conversation(s).

Hey there!

God Bless,
Cassidy Cash

And their response?

Thank you so much, Mrs. Cash! I understand now.

Man, we love that answer. It is so awesome to be able to help students. It’s not only amazing, but at Homework Help, it’s our job. The students we work with consistently do better in their work and raise their math grades at home and on the ACT/SAT.

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When we were putting together our Geometry course, we did so while evaluating the other courses being taken before and after Geometry as well as what would be “the norm” among comparative courses. What we found was that  while the concepts covered in those chapters are covered in some other Geometry  courses, they are not used in later courses—such as Algebra II with Trig, Calculus 1 or beyond. They are not touched on again in the ACT or SAT, and you don’t even see them at all unless the student goes to college specifically to get a mathematics degree. For this reason, if your student is planning to be a math major, they might consider going over those chapters—in which case we will support you in that decision (including Homework Help–also, the solutions manual that comes in our course kit covers those chapters). However, it is our opinion that those chapters are not essential to a solid education in Geometry, therefore we have omitted them from our syllabus.

“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12

This one is so important to God, that it is one of the Ten Commandments. We spend a good deal of time teaching our children many things, but a good look at society, and even into the church, indicates we are all weak here. Remember that much of what our society teaches is just the opposite. TV and the movies often have the parents as adversaries to the children. So a good deal of this work can be accomplished through the proper handling (or disconnecting of) TV and movies. Also, even more critical is our example of how we honor our parents. We are always teaching, but only sometimes instructing.

Of course, the best training for teaching our children to honor their parents is how we honor ours. Couple this with the fact that homeschooled families often have some disharmony at first with the grandparents. It seems that usually at least one set of the children’s grandparents seem to disagree with the decision to homeschool or to live by biblical standards. But we must still honor them. Remember, this commandment is for us also! We must remember that right or wrong, the grandparents might have different values, and might non-Christians. You must be careful what you say about or to the grandparents, while still not allowing them to be the head of your household. It can be a difficult situation, but a critical teaching element for your children.

If you are having struggles in the area of grandparent control, we suggest you seek the advice of a Christian counselor about how adults should honor their parents without letting them control their lives. An excellent book on the subject is Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend.