textbooks!

[Anonymous]

I got a 20-year old math textbook from a pile that the school was throwing away, because they use handouts and online stuff now.

The book is FULL of fascinating extra bonus topics, and real world applications in industry, and multi-color diagrams and photos of the material. Not to mention an index and the whole year of material in an organized and cross-referenced format.

It's 1000 pages of gold!

I strongly recommend you go online and spend $5-$10 to buy an "obsolete" book from a used bookstore. (Thrift Books, Half Price books, AddAll, etc.) It's the best money you'll even spend on your kid's education.

[Anonymous]

We have always done that especially for math. It's terrible that they throw away books vs. using them.

[Anonymous]

I am a fan of AoPS as a supplement to school, but if school covered everything in the textbook, it wouldn't fall too short of AoPS in core content. AoPS provides extra hard challenge problems, but the theory and proof isn't so different, and the textbook has real-world applications that AoPS ignores.... at least for Geometry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a fan of AoPS as a supplement to school, but if school covered everything in the textbook, it wouldn't fall too short of AoPS in core content. AoPS provides extra hard challenge problems, but the theory and proof isn't so different, and the textbook has real-world applications that AoPS ignores.... at least for Geometry.

What's AoPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a fan of AoPS as a supplement to school, but if school covered everything in the textbook, it wouldn't fall too short of AoPS in core content. AoPS provides extra hard challenge problems, but the theory and proof isn't so different, and the textbook has real-world applications that AoPS ignores.... at least for Geometry.

What's AoPS?

Its a private tutoring company like Kumon, this poster constantly pushes it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a 20-year old math textbook from a pile that the school was throwing away, because they use handouts and online stuff now.

The book is FULL of fascinating extra bonus topics, and real world applications in industry, and multi-color diagrams and photos of the material. Not to mention an index and the whole year of material in an organized and cross-referenced format.

It's 1000 pages of gold!

I strongly recommend you go online and spend $5-$10 to buy an "obsolete" book from a used bookstore. (Thrift Books, Half Price books, AddAll, etc.) It's the best money you'll even spend on your kid's education.

Does your child spend time reading the fascinating bonus topics?

[Anonymous]

Unless the material in the book is DIRECTLY related to what is being taught in class, this is a total waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless the material in the book is DIRECTLY related to what is being taught in class, this is a total waste of time.

I want my child to get an education for life. Sorry, not sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a fan of AoPS as a supplement to school, but if school covered everything in the textbook, it wouldn't fall too short of AoPS in core content. AoPS provides extra hard challenge problems, but the theory and proof isn't so different, and the textbook has real-world applications that AoPS ignores.... at least for Geometry.

What's AoPS?

Its a private tutoring company like Kumon, this poster constantly pushes it.

?
AoPS is a book and class company. It's not tutoring, and it's not like Kumon.

For classes with teachers, Kumon classes do supervised self-paced sequence of worksheets (kids in the room do different material) with staff support, like resource/study hall in school.

AoPS runs muti-month group classes (all kids in class do the same material) that run at a fixed pace, like a school class.

But that's not the topic of this thread.

For, this thread, books, AoPS sells textbooks with teaching and problems (and workbooks for grades 1-5), while Kumon sells workbooks of practice problems.
AoPS has books for grade 1 through calculus, while Kumon sells workbooks for grades K-8 including some algebra and geometry. (Kumon has higher level math worksheets but doesn't sell books of them)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a 20-year old math textbook from a pile that the school was throwing away, because they use handouts and online stuff now.

The book is FULL of fascinating extra bonus topics, and real world applications in industry, and multi-color diagrams and photos of the material. Not to mention an index and the whole year of material in an organized and cross-referenced format.

It's 1000 pages of gold!

I strongly recommend you go online and spend $5-$10 to buy an "obsolete" book from a used bookstore. (Thrift Books, Half Price books, AddAll, etc.) It's the best money you'll even spend on your kid's education.

Does your child spend time reading the fascinating bonus topics?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Why are they throwing away the books?!? Even if MCPS thinks they don't need them and don't have storage for them, can't they donate them? Or just give them to student? like WTF

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are they throwing away the books?!? Even if MCPS thinks they don't need them and don't have storage for them, can't they donate them? Or just give them to student? like WTF

They gave a lot away previously to private schools. I cannot imagine they have a lot of textbooks left. We have two in HS but that's it and some are because a smart teacher held onto them vs. sending them back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got a 20-year old math textbook from a pile that the school was throwing away, because they use handouts and online stuff now.

The book is FULL of fascinating extra bonus topics, and real world applications in industry, and multi-color diagrams and photos of the material. Not to mention an index and the whole year of material in an organized and cross-referenced format.

It's 1000 pages of gold!

I strongly recommend you go online and spend $5-$10 to buy an "obsolete" book from a used bookstore. (Thrift Books, Half Price books, AddAll, etc.) It's the best money you'll even spend on your kid's education.

Does your child spend time reading the fascinating bonus topics?

That was my question too. Who thinks the extra bonus topics are fascinating? OP? OP's child? Both?

The "real world applications in industry" in a 20-year-old textbook are likely to be out of date.