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By roo
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The other posters have covered a lot of the main concerns I had with Saxon. We used it for about 4 years, but abandoned it when it became clear that the 4th and 5th grade books in particular were completely out of alignment with our new state standards.
Another thing that bothered me about Saxon was that the method of presentation for the problems was so repetitive. They could seem to have mastered the concept (say finding the fraction of a whole #), but if that type of question was ever given in another form, they had no idea how to apply their knowledge.
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didn't have a lot of extraneous info. on the pages. You know how some math books have all of those little blurbs about science, social studies, tech. connections, etc. My poor kids get lost on a page with those. Also, Saxon is SOOOO easy to leave for a sub. It's like leaving a script to follow. Not that that's a reason to go with them for yoru adoption, but it's a perk if that's what you end up with.
I think we're leaning towards Harcourt.
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