Re: New Advice for 10 year old with Advanced interest in Math
- From: "Milah" <KamilahT@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 7 Jun 2006 12:35:01 -0700
BEM wrote:
Hello sci.math,
I have looked around for a better place to ask this sort of question
but
have found none. k12.ed.math has not had a post since 2005.
So please forgive me if this is somewhat off topic.
My daughter who has just finished 4th grade, Received very high marks
in
Math on all standardized tests over the last few years. I myself was a
pure math major in college but have no idea how to help her along at a
pace that exceeds that offered in our fine American public school
system.
Anyway she actually does not get very good grades in school because she
is bored so I challenge her at home with physics and math Ideas. I am
fighting with the advanced placement people about getting her into a
faster track to advanced math. They have agreed to test her next year
sometime. In the mean time she has asked me to teach her Algebra and
Calculus. I am no teacher and would like to find some books geared to
10
year olds that can teach these topics.
If anyone can offer advice on what resources might help us I would be
very grateful for the Ideas.
A google search brings up hundreds of ads for crap software and very
little in the way of real books. Software is ok but all of the stuff I
have looked at seems to be from the early 90s and is a joke for the
most
part.
I also looked at algebra for dummies workbook and thought it was a
written to an audience a little beyond her in Age maybe high school and
college. Forgotten Algebra a book I have has the same fault.
Anyway thanks for reading my post and thanks for any help or advice in
this matter.
Peace
There's a calculus book that i read the summer before taking ap
calculus that i loved, i borrowed it from the library and it told
calculus through a story like it was being invented. I can't remember
the name now but i believe the premise of the story was that a guy was
shipwrecked and landed on this island with a king and they kept on
having all these difficulties and had to invent calculus to solve the
problems. I think the book was published in the 70s or 80s, it was
paperback and i think the cover was black with a picture on it. Does
anyone know what book i'm talking about?
Brady
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