Getting Help With Difficult Subjects
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Question: How can we get help with more difficult subjects like calculus?
Answer: Sometimes in the high school years, your children may need to take a subject or two that you don't believe you can teach. There are several routes you can take.
First, it is possible that another homeschool parent who is knowledgeable in the area of need might be willing to teach a class on it. For example, we know of a situation where a mother who had a degree in math taught a weekly geometry class to several homeschool students.
Second, if a class is not possible, then a knowledgeable person might be willing to tutor your child. You might ask around homeschoolers in your area for a parent, or possibly a person in your church would be able to do this.
Third, although we don't recommend using DVD's as the total curriculum, they can be useful for an individual subject here and there that a parent is unable to teach himself.
Fourth, don't rule out learning the subject together with your child. Although this does take a lot of time on the part of the parent, if it is an area in which you are interested, but just never got as far as the needed class (for example, if you really liked math, but stopped prior to calculus), you might enjoy working together with your child. If you consider this route, count the cost in time before you start so that you don't get in the middle of the course and determine it is not working.
We are confident that you can find a way for any subject your child needs or wants to take.