re: #114 Barefoot Grin

That’s cool. I have two friends who quit Math Ph.D.s ABD, but were in pretty good shape to take on jobs in the private sector anyway. My advanced degree was the result of working to learn what I needed to know (and still is) because I didn’t have the imagination to think of another career.

Right now the boy is telecommuting?/videoconferencing? to a nearby high school to take Algebra. His school has made a little conference room with appropriate tech available. But the main thing is that he is into lots of stuff and I don’t want him to get too narrowly focused if that isn’t his natural inclination.

I completely agree with that. Still, those are awesome costumes.

I found Kip Thorne’s book to be relatively accessible working just with algebra (really no math required, because it is more concept based) so that might be a good one for him to look at if it continues to be an interest. (I was 13-14 when I did a correspondence college course based on it.)