"I find that adding these little things throughout the year helps balance out the time that I spent working our way through textbooks," says Santee. "I thought that perhaps the girls would enjoy the cooking part of the class, not the science. But they did enjoy it, and now they can apply what they learned in this class to other cooking experiences." Read more

The real challenge, though, is science "They don't particularly like science," says Santee. "So I wanted to find something that would be worth a high school credit of lab science that the girls might actually enjoy." A friend sent her to Et OpenCourseWare's Highlights for High School. "Homeschoolers tend to have this unofficial emailing system. When we find something that we like or that we... Read more

Computers are fundamentally well suited to performing mechanical computations, using fixed programmed rules. This allows artificial machines to perform simple monotonous tasks efficiently and reliably, which humans are ill-suited to.  For more complex problems, things get more difficult... Unlike humans, computers have trouble understanding specific situations, and adapting to new situations... Read more

Computers are fundamentally well suited to performing mechanical computations, using fixed programmed rules. This allows artificial machines to perform simple monotonous tasks efficiently and reliably, which humans are ill-suited to.  For more complex problems, things get more difficult... Unlike humans, computers have trouble understanding specific situations, and adapting to new situations... Read more