Can Home School Math Be More Than One Credit Per Year?

By Author: Floyd Kenneth
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Home school parents usually tend to look for mastery of subjects before moving forward. This is demonstrated when parents demand "more than usual work" in complicated subjects like math and science. Where public and private schools will most likely not complete a math textbook in the course of a school year, many home school parents will consider a year unsuccessful unless the book is done. This can bring about an excessive number of hours spent on one subject. One mom reported to me that her son did all 344 lessons in Pre-calculus and easily put in around 10 hours per week on his math lessons. Her question was whether she ought to give her son more than one high school credit for his efforts.



Sadly, one complete high school course like Pre-calculus is one whole credit. One textbook is also one credit - whether or not it takes forever. Even if you count well over 120 hours, it's still just one credit. When our boys did swim team, as an example, it was hundreds of hours but just one credit a year for PE. Math is just one of those subjects like organized sports that usually requires many hours to accomplish ...
... each year, but should still only be one high school credit. It's a big, beefy, manly credit as it's Pre-calculus, and you can be pleased with that!



Now is a good time to point out that you don't have to count hours AND count textbooks. You can determine credit value by counting hours OR by completing a textbook, but don't measure both ways. Any time you use a textbook, measure credits that way, and don't bother counting hours.



Whatever what you decide, bear in mind the parent always knows best. You may decide that your son deserves something above just one credit on his transcript. In that case, you might look at giving him honors credit to account for all the added work he did for his class. You are in control of your child's education. I'm merely here to give my opinion based on my years of experience and gray hairs.



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