I Love Saxon Math for K-6!
I had posted before how I thought Saxon Math was a great choice for K-6. I am beyond calling it “great” and now I am expressing my LOVE for this curriculum! And, if there are parents or tutors willing and able to help out, virtually no child will be left behind or not learn vital arithmetic skills. Why do I say this? My daughter, age 10 (to be 11 in one month) was having just a terrible time with math. She did not have her multiplication facts down, and for the life of her, she could not remember the correct steps in long division. And this is the second time through for her! But she is getting it! My daughter can now do multiplication problems involving several two and digit numbers with no problems and she has finally gotten down long division!
Why is Saxon So Good For Students Having Difficulties?
Saxon, unlike other math books, does not cover a concept and then move on to another concept. Rather, it integrates review problems into to each problem set. So we could keep moving on, even though my daughter was stumbling on multiplication facts and long division, because there were always more of these problems in future problem sets. Even at the end of the book the exercises contain problems from the very first sections. So we could keep working on former skills not mastered even as we kept moving on. And my daughter will finish the book successfully this time!
Saxon + (One-on-One Help) = Success!