Saxon Math, anyone?
Only the private schools and the Home Schools seem to have understood the value of Saxon’s incremental approach to mathematics.
What are your opinions on the Singapore mathematics program?
We used Saxon, starting in 5/4 in the 3rd grade. Since math was the one subject we studied, year round, we just progressed through each of the books. By 9th grade we had finished Alg. II, and since we have dual enrollment at the local colleges, in 10th grade he tested into and started College Alg. at the local college. My son hated Trig but did fine in it...so makes one wonder if he just didn’t like the prof’s teaching style, and he liked the Calculus courses.
All that to say, although not a math genius, by any stretch of the imagination, Saxon prepared the way for college math courses. The thing I REALLY like about Saxon and homeschooling was, if I wasn’t sure if he fully grasped a concept the first time it was presented, I knew we’d be seeing it the next day and the next day and 3 months from now, in the form of review, so I could relax if he didn’t have a full understanding on the first go.
Saxon sure knows how to use high numbers. Do they have programs for individual children?
“Saxon Math, anyone?”
Saxon is good.
Math-U-See is good, too.
I think the main problem here is not algebra in the 9th grade but the foundation that allows students to move on to algebra. .
That’s why the private school and homeschool curricula are so great. They get the foundation established early on through concepts, repetition, and review.
Saxon may work for some, but it did not work where my grandchildren go to school. Many kids in hs are still counting on their fingers. Saxon does not teach THINKING.
Yes! Saxon Math! I don’t know why it isn’t universally taught. It is to math what phonics is to reading.
I love Saxon too. I was reading that Mr. Saxon was so fed up with the way math was being taught/ written up in textbooks, that he wrote his own.
I did have one principal tell me the kids had complained about Saxon (the 9th graders!!) because ‘it wasn’t entertaining enough.’ NINTH GRADERS. I said, “I didn’t think math was supposed to be entertaining.” The only way I would have taught that class was with Saxon.
Our local public school district uses Saxon Math.
My daughter is in public school and they use Saxon.