Saxon Math

Hi,

In a middle school that I was in previously they used it - Math 54 as “the” alternative math curriculum in the Resource Room.

The same book is being used in 5th grade math at the Charter school in my new district. They claim that it gives great state test score correlations and understanding.

I am supplementing at an elm RSP with mathusee.com. A multisensory math program with video training.

Good luck

I’m not a fan of Saxon. Various topics are introduced randomly. The order makes no sense to me. Try MathUSee or Singapore Math. There are others on this board who like On Cloud Nine by Lindamood Bell. I think you would have much better luck with these programs.

On Cloud Nine is a great program. Very user friendly manual and you don’t really need to buy any materials (though you need unifix cubes and a number line— I made one but I doubt it will hold up long). However, I don’t really consider this a complete curriculum. I’d go more for the Math U See as complete, and goes from K thru trig.

—des

I am a special ed. teacher, but my child is in a charter school that uses Saxon Math in K-3, so I am very familiar with it. I even ordered two of the homeschool manuals (as I teach small groups or one-on-one and didn’t need the full classroom manual) to try it. But Saxon is intended to be used every day for a full school year. It is wonderful the way it has built-in continual review. But as far as I am concerned, I think it is ONLY suitable for self-contained classes that can do a lesson each day. You can’t just pick out a skill a child is weak in and pull Saxon pages. Every page has multiple skills every lesson.

So, for specific major math skills, On Cloud Nine Math is very valuable and every resource teacher should have it. And at the moment, I’d choose Math-U-See for my math curriculum.

Janis (see des, I’m back to agreeing!)

who I Home School, basically it is pretty good.. I find that I have to do extra review of certain topics, because Saxon will just introduce a new skill, and then only do a few problems on it. I have heard of others who don’t even have kids with an LD who have to do extra review at times with Saxon anyway. Saxon math is what is known as a spiral method. So it will introduce a little at a time, and keep reviewing other skills. The extra reviewing is very good for those with LD for sure. One thing with Saxon though is that it can be a boring, so one day a week we do a math fun day where we do games with math and logic. This helps keep math fun.

Cindy

Thanks for your input. I’m anxiously awaiting the new revised MUC.

Chuck
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Chuck,

I am sure many of us would love to hear about the revised MUS. I had heard it was coming out and had refrained from ordering any this year for that reason. Please do update us as you have a chnace to look at it and use it!

Janis