Can you provide some more insight about Saxon in the upper grades? Thanks!!We're using Saxon in a private high school that we've started this year. We won't be using Saxon next year. I've seen the following problems with Saxon in its Algebra II text:
- There is very little theory, so the math instruction becomes more of a cookbook of techniques for manipulating symbols rather than an understanding of why you are applying those techniques.
- It introduces some pretty archaic terms for certain operations that I've never seen before in any math text (I have a Masters in Math for what it's worth.)
- It jumps back forth from one topic to another within a single chapter. On one page you could be working with quadratic equations, the next page could be on pressure-volume-tempature problems, and then the next page is on imaginary numbers. There is little continuity.
- Problems from previous chapters get placed in end-of-chapter tests. You may think that's good, but imagine studying for the material in Chapter 9 and realizing that you may have to be responsible for Chapters 1 through 8 as well. That's a nightmare for both the student and the instructor.
Other than that, no problem :-)