One of our customers contacted us today because he took our Calculus 1 course. He wanted to take Calculus 2, but since AskDrCallahan didn’t offer a DVD course for Calculus 2, he decided to take it at MIT.
We loved the fact that MIT was second to us in his list of options. Ha!
Anyway, he was emailing us because MIT’s Openware courses (which you can view here) were saying that they used the same textbook as we were using, so they contacted us about whether or not that is the book we would use.
If you’re interested as well, YES we would. The book we chose for Calculus 1 actually contains enough material to teach Calculus 1-3. Different schools break it up a little differently, so it depends on what school you’re dealing with as to what they consider the “division points” for each course, but we think it is pretty neat that MIT chose the same thing we did. 
Their openware courses are actually a great option for parents if you’re interested in teaching Calculus 2 or 3 in high school. (and yes, some people do!)They don’t do video, but still it is MIT at home. We thought it was a cool option.
MIT seems to follow a course plan of
18.01
18.02
18.03
You can look at it here. Just extra material to support your effort!
By Dr. Callahan
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Posted in Calculus, College, Ideas and Opinions, Resources, support
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Tagged Calculus, calculus 1, calculus 2, calculus 3, class, home, homeschool, math, MIT, multivariable, school, teach, textbook
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When you sit down to teach math to your home school student, you probably reach for all the helps and resources you can get.
To help things run smoothly, many parents turn to DVDs. But what are you really getting with a DVD education? Well, let’s take a brief look at teaching homeschool math with DVDs.
DVD instruction is essentially where a teacher is filmed teaching each lesson from a textbook. All of this information is recorded onto a DVD which parents can show to their students before their students study their lessons for that day.
A typical day with a DVD education system might look like this:
- Open DVD
- put DVD in player
- navigate to section being studied that day
- watch clip, following along in the textbook
- Read textbook section
- work practice problems
- work homework problems as assigned
- Review DVD as needed.
Click Here to view some sample video clips of DVD lessons by AskDrCallahan
Parents/Students who might want to use a DVD course include (but certainly isn’t limited to) those who:
- haven’t studied math in a while and need some help remembering the concepts
- independent/ teach themselves
- want a classroom experience, but who want to customize the pace for what makes sense for them
- enjoy/require visual preparation and review resource
- things just make more sense when you can watch someone else work the problems on a board before attempting them yourself
There are many reasons and benefits to getting a DVD course. You can probably think of others that I didn’t list above. If you have a DVD course, why did you decide to go that route? Would you recommend DVD courses to other homeschooling families? Why?Why not?
By Dr. Callahan
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Posted in Algebra2With Trig, Calculus, Geometry, Ideas and Opinions, Resources, algebra, support, trigonometry
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Tagged dvd, education, explore, home, homeschool, math, reasons, school, teach
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We do not currently have a system in place for doing the test grading for parents. If you are in need of this service, you may email us about that.
We will be glad to help you as we can.
However, we do provide parents with a detailed outline of how to test students. In our Teacher’s Guides for every course we sell, we include test grading sheets and sample test grading sheets to demonstrate our grading process. For most parents the Grading Guides we provide in our Teacher’s Guide are quite sufficient. You may download the teachers guide here. If you have questions about grading, test taking, or if you’re unsure if your process is correct, please send us an email. We will be glad to walk you through the process and get you pointed in the right direction.
By Cassidy Cash
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Posted in Calculus, Geometry, Ideas and Opinions, Resources, algebra, trigonometry
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Tagged AskDrCallahan, grade, grading, guide, help, homework, math, service, teach, test
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