It can be! The chapters in Jacobs are organized by a number of lessons and within those lessons are 3 "sets." Most of the time we focus our work on the first and second sets, but not always.
Today we started off (for real this time) our study of Chapter 1 on inductive and deductive reasoning. The first lesson (as well as the second lesson) focus on the "path of a billiard ball" -- and using a variety of mathematical experiments (if you will) to deduce patterns. If you are curious, just grab your child's book.
To start off our work, however, we watched a few videos of some of the amazing things that people who are extremely talented (or really bored and have A LOT of free time) can do with billiard balls, a cue and a pool table. If you would like to take a look, I've posted them on my wikispace. The link is at the top of this page, or you can just click right here --> cfsmatthew.wikispaces.com/jacobs
They do have some homework. I want them to complete #s 1-8 of Set I. They should have gotten graph paper from me to draw their tables. No need to go further--I like to process their tables in class.
Hope all is well!
