Wednesday, November 18

Saxon Math Worksheets

We love Saxon Math. Continual Review is the basis of their curriculum and that works great for my kids. Instead of having 30 questions that are all the same, they have a few questions of the new material and the rest of the 30 questions are review of earlier material.

We always do the Lesson Reading, Practice Problems, and ALL of the questions from the current lesson...then we choose some that we do not need to review and omit them.

Amanda is working on Advanced Mathematics and does about 20-25 problems (we are doing 1/2 the book this year=Geometry...so she has 2 days to do this many problems).

Bailey is working on Saxon Math 7/6...right now most of her lessons are still review or she doesn't have a problem doing them, so she is only doing about 10 problems a day. Later in the book, I think she will have to do more problems.

Starting early on, the kids had trouble lining up their math problems when working on notebook paper (and we did not have the Worksheets/Tests books from Saxon because I didn't want to give tests, so I didn't buy them). We used graph paper, which was a real pain for me because I had to make lines to divide up the problems. Then we found out that the Worksheets/Test books had problem worksheets to copy for each lesson. It was all nice and boxed with problem numbers, graph grids so you could easily line up problems (and I could check easier). I liked them alot, and my kid's work got lots neater!

Then one day I was exploring around on the DonnaYoung.org and found some really cute graph paper/problem worksheets you could print out for free and my kids like these even better. One of them even has graph paper lines in PINK!! DonnaYoung.org has TONS of great worksheets, bookmarks, graph papers, schedules, etc. for all the popular homeschool curriculum. You should check out her whole site and see what you can find for your use. Math & Science are awesome!



Here's the math sheets we like:
Bailey: "Show Your Work Math Paper with Grid" with multiplication facts






Amanda: "4- Joined Rows - One-Half of Paper is Graph" - she uses this for problems with graphing, polar coordinates, etc. (look near bottom of website page)








I saved the pdf files on my computer and when we need more copies, I just bring them up and print a few more out. Very handy!

1 comment:

  1. Lindy,

    As a former Saxon math teacher and later as one of the Saxon homeschool curriculum directors, I have more than twenty years experience using John Saxon's math books. I urge you to have Bailey do all thirty problems every day to ensure mastery occurs.

    If she is ahead in facts practice, she can more easily skip the box at the beginning of the lesson. The box was developed as the classroom teachers replacement for what they used to call "warm up activities" to get the class started thinking "mathematics" after the bell.

    As I often tell parents and students, what is wrong with doing something you know how? Must students always do something they do not know how to? Doing review work, reinforces the concept and places it in long term memory.

    Also, the early lessons in each book review the previous level math book's material, but the review problems are structured differently than those they previously encountered to allow this concept to be more readily understood.

    If Bailey successfully completes the entirety of Math 76, 3rd or 4th editions, and receives eighty-five or better on her last five tests, she can easily skip Math 87 and move directly to algebra 1/2, 3rd Edition.

    If you have any questions, please feel to call me at 580-234-0064 (CST). I would be happy to answer any questions you might have.

    Thanks for listening.

    Art Reed
    www.usingsaxon.com

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