Saxon Math 1 Homeschool Kit (1st edition)

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Kit includes teacher's manual, student workbooks, meeting book, and math facts cards (flash cards).

Saxon's Math 1 program is carefully planned and packaged in a homeschool kit to make your teaching experience easier.

First-graders will skip count by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's; compare and order numbers; identify ordinal position to tenth; identify a sorting rule; identify and extend patterns; solve routine and nonroutine problems; master all basic addition facts and most of the basic subtraction facts; add two-digit numbers without regrouping; picture and name fractions; measure using inches, feet, and centimeters; compare volume, mass, and area; tell time to the half hour; count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters; identify and draw polygons; identify geometric solids; tally; and create, read, and write observations from real graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs.

Homeschool Kit Contents

Saxon's primary mathematics programs have been carefully planned and packaged. Each homeschool kit comes with all necessary materials required for one-on-one instruction. ** The Math 1 homeschool kit contains the following:

Teacher's Manual. The heart of each K-3 program is the teacher's manual, which employs a unique instructional format. It contains daily lessons, each of which includes pre-class preparation instructions, a list of materials, and the entire scripted lesson. Scripted lessons provide the parent with questioning strategies and language designed to help children understand mathematical concepts. Since the teacher's manual is nonconsumable, it can be used in successive years with the purchase of new student workbooks and meeting books.

Student Workbooks. A complete set of all necessary student materials is bound in two consumable workbooks. Student materials include written practice pages, masters, and fact cards.

Meeting Book. Each grade level has its own consumable meeting book, which is used during The Meeting at the beginning of each day.

** Manipulatives are an additional purchase.

Lesson Components

Each lesson includes a daily meeting, a new increment of instruction, guided practice of new and previously introduced concepts, and number fact practice. Written and oral assessments are built into the program and are given at regular intervals.

The Meeting. The daily meeting is an opening exercise in which children practice skills related to time, temperature, money, counting, patterning, and problem solving.

Number Fact Practice. Children are presented with strategies to help learn number facts. They are encouraged to recall facts through the use of pattern recognition. Facts are practiced orally, and students test their skills in timed drills (fact practice sheets), competing against past performances.

Written Practice. Children complete the first part of the written practice with parent assistance. The remaining half, which mirrors work completed in class, is done later in the day. The time delay between practice sessions improves retention.

Written and Oral Assessments. Each assessment questions children on skills they have practiced for at least five lessons. In Math 1, a written assessment is given every five lessons, an oral assessment every ten lessons.

Includes kindergarten review, skip counting by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s, sequencing, patterns, basic addition and subtraction; two-digit addition without regrouping, etc. Kit includes teacher's manual, student workbooks and meeting book and math facts cards (flash cards). Workbooks and meeting book are consumable. If you have younger children with whom you hope to use the Kindergarten Saxon Math program, you should purchase item #KM07 which includes all the manipulatives you will need for K-3.

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KM07

Saxon Math Manipulatives Set S

(Packaged in a sturdy reusable box)
Complete set of manipulatives for use with the Saxon Math program in grades K through 3.
Retail: $76.99
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Consumable Items

1M09

Saxon Math 1 Meeting Book (1st edition)

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Meeting book for teaching Math 1 a second time. (Meeting book is consumed each time the course is taught).
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1M0SW

Saxon Math 1 Workbooks & Fact Cards

(1st edition)
Consumable. Materials for additional student to be taught at the same time.
Retail: $30.95
Core: $27.86
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Item #1M0SW

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by Kristen O on 2011-03-18
I have to supply a somewhat mixed review. I do love this curriculum, and plan to continue using it, because I feel the pros out weigh the cons. That said, Saxon has some of each. What I love about it -- it is a very gentle way to teach -- kids feel like they are playing when they are actually learning. It is because I feel like that is a very strong plus, it is worth it to continue using it. I also like how it teaches the math facts -- I've used Math U See in the past, and would like to incorporate its techniques in, but many curriculums teach it in a very different way that makes the techniques harder to incorporate. This material goes about it the same way, so it works. The cons -- it is very teacher centered, and if you have several kids to teach, that makes it harder to use. This is only true in the early grades, however. I don't know exactly when it changes, but my son did Saxon in the fifth grade almost entirely independently. It also moves somewhat slowly. We finished the K material by skipping unnecessary review in the first half of her K year. This is much more on target for her now, using the first grade material without skipping. I also want to say that, realistically, my daughter is really fairly typical of children her age in aptitude. I don't feel like she is a whiz -- many other children would be able to skip all or part of the K level. We are six or seven weeks in at present, but into our last quarter of the year. First grade isn't that far off, and I don't believe her fine motor skills will be fully developed when we resume again when she is actually on grade level. It seems to forget that young children can't write all that small, so I've had to make my own worksheets for part of the page, or have her write the answer off to the side to be able to fit it in. I've made something reproducible that I can use for the most difficult part for her, so it is working okay, but I can't help but think that if my daughter is having this trouble, a little boy with worse fine motor skills would find it that much more difficult. Another alternative is to let the child dictate the answers to you and write them for him or her. That said, I personally find the cons much more minor than the pros. I plan to continue using it, at least for the next couple of years.