Saxon Math 6/5 Homeschool Curriculum Set - Complete Math Learning Kit for 5th & 6th Grade Students - Perfect for Homeschooling, Tutoring & Self-Study

Private school, Saxon Math. While an exceptional concept,Saxon is nothing to the student without the ability to check their answers and rework a problem at the point it went sour. Unlike the math textbooks "in the day" where odd or even answers were given for most exercises as a false hope most of us could figure out the other from context, Saxon throws a concept out there, provides some very basic examples then immerses the kid in the deep end without a life ring. If your child is not particularly gifted at math it is frustrating beyond belief, for the child and parent. The child has no skill or benchmark to self check which puts the onus on the parent to work the child's math; this helps the child in what way? Saxon's methods are at times counter intuitive to "the old ways" so the parent must learn the method to teach the child, and the pickings are sparse in the generic textbook. Do yourselves a favor, get the complete set USED, let the child do the first five-ten problems check answers, question, rewrite and move on. The problems can be multi stepped and take concentration. Don't wait to complete 30 and then check, its soul crushing for tweens. Is this cheating? Most teachers have B sets of questions that will closely resemble the A sets answer sheet in set up, if it's a take home test make sure it is NOT exactly the same material, hold on to the answer book. If its homework, the idea is doing the set up work to get to the answer correctly, the answer itself is useless without the work. (That's where being the parent comes in, check the work.) My daughter literally spent hours on 30 questions and would have written ANYTHING in the box to be done; (I have witnessed subtraction problems where the difference was greater than either original integer (ie 13-7=24).) Stop the madness, save your sanity and parental relationship. BUY THE SAXON MATH SET!