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Review of Saxon Math: Middle Grades (4-8)
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| Reviewed by MicheleMM |
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1:20 PM EDT on
October 29, 2008
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Saxon Math is a math curriculum that is designed for success. The reason I believe this statement is based on practice. The key that makes the difference between us American’s and Orientals is practice. This was told to me from an oriental herself. What ever subject you are studying, practice makes all the difference in the world between success and failure. Math is one subject that to be successful at it you need to practice. Saxon math has this discipline built into its curriculum.
Up until about threes years ago I was using Accelerated Christina Education (ACE) for all of the subjects I teach. However, I discovered that my children were not remembering some of the math facts that they were taught. After talking to other homeschool moms, I decided to give Saxon math a try. Well it was well worth the try. Not only are my children learning math better but they are excelling.
In each new lesson of Saxon the child learns the new information and practices it. In addition, the child is provided with practice questions from previous lessons. Each new lesson has a little bit of practice problems from past lessons so the child will never forget how to solve problems the way he was taught.
Another nice feature that I like about Saxon is that it fits right into my style of teaching. With seven children I need the children to work as independently as possible. Saxon math allows this to happen. Of course you’ll always have on occasion the need to explain something your child just doesn’t get, but on a daily basis you will be freed up to accomplish other things like planning field trips, correcting, documenting, or just plain household chores.
In addition, I can personally attest to its success in the fact that my high school junior is already taking college math at our local community college. O.k. if that’s not convincing enough. Let me tell you that I didn’t do too well in math as I was growing up. However, I understand math perfectly the way Saxon lays it out. Talk about dual credits. In our house both my son and I are learning at the same time.
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