Your question: Schedule?  How quickly will I progress?

 

        The Life of Fred series is designed for home schoolers, so there is no need to cram, squeeze, or expand the material in order to fit into some government 9-month program. When students finish one course, then they begin the next one.

      The two books (LOF: Fractions and LOF: Decimals & Percents) together take about 65-70 lessons if you do one each day including the time for the Bridges exams.

            LOF: Pre-Algebra 1 with Biology, 46 daily lessons.
            LOF: Pre-Algebra 2 with Economics (which does a lot of work with word problems), 34 daily lessons.

            LOF: Beginning Algebra (with its study guide, Fred's Home Companion: Beginning Algebra) are laid out in 108 lessons.

         Then LOF: Advanced Algebra (with its study guide, Fred's Home Companion: Advanced Algebra), 101 lessons.

         Then LOF: Geometry 2 semesters.

         My laying out lesson plans, which was true up through advanced algebra, was a bit like having training wheels on a bicycle.  After a while they become unnecessary—and even sometimes a hindrance.
         An adult, for example, reading a novel doesn't have the number of pages to be read each day laid out by the author.
         At this point in your child's education, I think it is important that some of the scheduling be done by your child. Instead of your laying out the schedule, I would suggest that you ask that your child look over the table of contents of the book and lay out a weekly outline of what will be covered in each week with the thought of finishing the book in a year's time.   Expect anywhere from nine months to 14 months to complete the book—depending on how many optional chapters, such as chapter 5 1/2 for chapter 7 1/2 or chapter 8 1/2, etc. are covered—and depending on the academic ability of your child.
         This is a step toward adulthood . . . taking responsibility for little part of one's own education.

       Then LOF: Trig (with its study guide, Fred's Home Companion: Trig), 94 daily lessons.

       Then they will begin LOF: Calculus which covers all of the two years of college calculus.  It is not broken into lessons.

       LOF: Statistics covers a year of college statistics.      For high school seniors, consider finishing the first five chapters (the first 203 pages of the book).  That will give you a solid grounding in statistics. 

       LOF: Linear Algebra is a full semester upper division college course.
 

 

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