I was looking at Saxon math teaching DVD's and then saw these books.Are they any good?
Do the lessons take long?

This post was edited on Nov 05, 2009 06:22 PM

I just looked at samples. They look pretty good but I have not used them.
I am sure someone here has and can help more.

We started Level 8. I like that it's thorough and uses a spiral method. However, we stopped because each and every day the topic was on American government/history/civics. Dd got very tired of the topic and frankly, so did I.

I would love to know if the other levels continue one topic throughout the book. We could easily go with Level 7.

This is an expensive curriculum that's very hard to find used.
BTW, I have Level 8 for sale:o) email me (username) @yahoo.com if interested.

We are currently using level 5 and are loving it!

What my daughter likes: the variety of information in the sentences, learning new things from them, the quick review of older concepts (instead of 10 or 12 review problems), and how quickly she can get through a lesson (20-30 minutes). She has had very little formal grammar instruction thus far, so some of it challenges her, but she is still able to get through the lessons in a timely manner.

What I like: I tell her to do grammar and she can all on her own (unlike most of her other subjects b/c we use Sonlight history/reading/science). I also appreciate the thoroughness of it.

The writing lessons seem pretty simplistic for my daughter's writing level so I added Meaningful Composition.

I am VERY please with this program overall and think it is worth the price.

I have used level 5 twice and it ended up not being a good fit either time. If you do the lessons "as is" it will take you an hour or more each day. The review was too thorough for us (I even went to doing odds or evens), and I was VERY disappointed to see that the grammar in level 6 was almost identical to level 5. I also needed to 'tweak' the writing assignments.


I have level 5 for sale if you are interested.


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Keniki, that is interesting...one hour?

We do it just as written, with the exception of the dictation/copywork. I just have dd copy that part into her notebook. We don't skip problems. I think the longest it has ever taken was *maybe 40 minutes on a day when dd was goofing off instead of working. But normally it really does only take 20-30.

I guess it would just be a difference in how one method may work for one student and not another...Now, even though it is the same method as Saxon math, Saxon math was torture for my daughter. We used it for a month and I finally threw in the towel and switched to TT. Strange how the grammar works but the math didn't...(shaking my head) Children can be so funny!

: )

Congratulations! There is NOOOO way ds could have done it in 30 minutes especially with the dictation/journal and/or a day that there was a test AND a writing lesson!

Anyway, yep, what works for one doesn't work for the next. Aren't we glad there's more than one curriculum to pick from? :o)

"Anyway, yep, what works for one doesn't work for the next. Aren't we glad there's more than one curriculum to pick from? :o) "

Yes! : ) We have tried too many math programs to count, even ones that seemed to work for most everyone else! Lol!!