Math 6/5: Home School Kit

This is a wonderful math program. All of Saxon math is great, but I'm doing 5/6 this year with my advanced 4th grader. Last year (her 3rd grade year) she was in public school and struggling with their advanced placement program. I knew she is advanced in math, but there was no reason she should be struggling so much with it. We started homeschooling this year and in the 6 weeks we've been doing this program, I have seen huge growth in her understanding of the basics and also huge growth in her confidence. She's starting to like math again and be proud of herself for how well she can do it. :)Each day starts with a facts test. There are one hundred basic problems on a sheet. First, simple addition facts for a week or so. Then, basic subtraction facts for a while. Then it progresses through multiplication, division, fractions, etc. throughout the year. The student is timed to see how many they can get done in a 5 minute period of time. Every day that she takes a test, my daughter's time gets faster and faster. She is very proud of these test improvements.Then you move on to "mental math." At first I was skeptical about this part, but they start off so slow and basic and add on in small increments that it doesn't feel challenging even though it is. The progress I've seen here is amazing and it's only been a few weeks. This is the part of the program where she gains a TON of self confidence. And my mental math has been sharpened, too. Added bonus!The next part is one "problem solving" problem and requires simple logical thinking. A great skill for use even in other subjects.Then you review the previous days homework and correct any errors. After that you read through the lesson, do 8-10 practice problems on the newly learned skill and then begin the "mixed practice" set. The mixed practice contains 28-30 problems which cover all concepts learned up to that point. It's great because the repetitive practice really gets her comfortable with each skill. It does not become monotonous to her because she's grateful to have those problems she considers "easy" mixed in with the problems that are newer, more "difficult" skills. Eventually, the difficult ones become the easy ones and new problems are the difficult one and so on and so forth.Overall, my daughter is starting to like math again and realize that she actually is good at it and only gets better and better. Love this program!

Saxon Math 6/5 Homeschooling Kit:My daughters have been using Saxon Math for the last 2 years and this year when I decided to HomeSchool them my Curriculum Choice was Saxon Math. If you have well disciplined children a lot of the math in each Lesson can be done alone by the child. My daughters do the Math Fact(5 min timed exercise daily), then do a supplemental worksheet from the internet as their warm up. If you go to the Website for Saxon Math in the Q&A Section the publisher talks about the Math Fact and Warm- Up time: He states that what used to happen in the classroom was a time prior to the actual math lesson where the kids got into the Math Frame of mind...I really think that this is important and I like to start with the warm-ups. The great thing about the book is that the Tests and Worksheets Book comes with all the necessary worksheets and activity sheets to support the lessons. If your child has difficulty with the lesson, he/she can refer back to the original lesson in the book (number of lesson is always under the problem number), we have used this and it helps!This Link has a lot of the Q&A that I referenced before making my final decision. [...]A negative: If your at the end of the lesson and need more problems than the lesson provides (lesson usually provides approx 20 problems) then you will have to come up with them on your own. Only some of the lessons have supplemental problems in the back of the Student Text. This has not limited us as we have not used it, but I thought to mention it.We have only used the Math 65 and 54 with our daughters so I cannot speak about the development of the program from a younger age but this has met and exceeded our expectations and I will be continuing with Saxon Math.

We have been using Saxon Math with our son for about 1 1/2 years now, and we love it! After he finished his 4th grade year, I thought I would switch to another curriculum, but found that he really seemed to struggle with it. So we ended up buying this 6/5 set. Saxon Math takes on a more circular approach, which is why I think it works so well for our son. The other curriculum he was using was more of a linear approach (learning a subject and then moving on). With Saxon Math, it include a practice set with each lesson to learn the new concept, and then it has a mixed practice where he learns old concepts as well (circular). I have heard that younger kids may get bored with the repetition, but this is extremely helpful for kids as they begin to reach middle school. Repetition is extremely helpful, and ensures that the old concepts aren't forgotten. This set comes with a test/worksheets book, lesson book, and solution manual. The test/worksheets is nice because the worksheets are daily practices of concepts that help reinforce learning. I will note that in this 6/5 set, we skipped about the first 10-15 lessons as these were a bunch of review, and easy basic concepts our son already know. About lesson 10 starts with word problems, and he tends to struggle in this, so we had him review those related lessons. 6/5 is intended for the on target 5th grader or struggling 6th grader. Saxon Math makes a huge difference, and I would recommend this for homeschooling families.

No complaints. Highly recommend for homeschool families

We just love Saxon! Everything is straight forwarded, great for building foundations and learning why math is done this way. Each topic is learned throughout the year, not unit one is fractions, unit two division, etc. which helps the child to look at a problem and determine how to solve it through different methods. This kit allows for teacher and student to keep track of work, take tests, and work to through it together or individually. No need to purchase each book individually, this item is bundled together!

Good price

Excellent maths programme for my daughter who is homeschooled.

Great curriculum for homeschool

This is my second year using this program. I chose Saxon because of the incremental style, and I found it very thorough if not a slightly long lesson plan. The problem is that it was so thorough that this year has had a bit too much repeat. I'm finding it necessary to move things along a bit to keep a faster learner's interest.

Missing pages, child unable to complete learning a new concept due to missing pages.