DD14 has been struggling with Saxon 87 and because she is 75% through the book, I am thinking about dropping it and being done with math for the rest of this school year (we are finishing next month). She was going along fine with just little struggles here and there, but now, she has a meltdown everyday. It's not everything that she is struggling with either- mostly geometry problems, adding and subtracting negative & positive integers, and some of the proportions (like trying to figure out which numbers she needs to set up her equations). I am beyond ready for this school year to be finished. I am burned out and I would prefer NOT to extend math into the summer with her. I'm just being real honest. DD14 will be attending a private high school next year and on Friday we met with the academic counselor to set up her schedule of classes. I shared very honestly with the counselor and she thought that DD14 struggles were not out of the ordinary for incoming 9th graders. The school has a program set up to break Algebra 1 into two years. She suggested DD14 go through that program. Even though it is broken up into years, she will still receive one full credit for each year. We are in NY State so she would not be required to take Regents until the end of Algebra 1, the second year. This brought my husband and I so much relief. So now, my question for you all is, do we drop the Saxon 87 for the rest of the year and look for something online where she can go over the concepts she's struggling with? If so, do you have any suggestions? Or do we continue to painstakingly hammer at the Saxon 87 til we finish? Thanks.

My daughter just finished Saxon 1 this past spring. We did not break it up. We did the calendar and practiced the counting and skip counting verbally. I taught the lesson using the TM and then worked on the front side (A) together. Then I let her work on the (B) on her own until she had a question, but we did all in one sitting. ETA: Before I taught the lesson for each day, I always gave her the fact sheet to zoom through first.

My dd(13) doing 7th grade has been working through Saxon 76 this year. While she blew through the beginning of it with excellent grades on tests, but now as she is nearing the end, she has started not being able to get above 75% on tests. I have really hesitated about going backwards because she is already behind in doing 76 when she should be doing 87 this year and preparing for Algebra I. I decided to purchase the Saxon Teacher cds to help us. She has improved slightly on the first couple of tests, but now she just bombed the test she took today which included proportions (cross-products). I asked her what else I could do to help her and she said she thinks it would be helpful to have a math book that teaches one concept and stays on it throughout the whole lesson. Saxon introduces a new concept and then offers a few practice problems before then going back to review everything else. She says she can't handle the back and forth. So my question is, what should I do at this point? She needs something more mastery instead of incremental/spiral. Should I find a mastery approach math curriculum now and drop Saxon? She has like 25 more lessons to go. Or should l try to get her through this Saxon book and look for something mastery for next year (8th grade)? If so, which curriculum could we switch to keep her on track for Algebra I for 9th grade? Thank you.

My dd 13, doing 7th grade work, is working on Saxon 76 but she is not good at looking at references or going back to look at the lesson. She has a hard time transferring the examples into the practice problems. While we working at slower pace so to speak, I am happy when the light bulb goes on and she gets it. To me, that is what is most important, even if it comes after some serious "hand holding". I just ordered the Saxon Teacher Cds and I am waiting for them to come in the mail. From what I understand, the examples are taught as well as all the problems in each lesson. We are planning to move on to Saxon 87 in the Fall and getting the Saxon Teacher CD for that book as well.

My 6th grader is using HO vol 1 as the history spine and she is loving the colorful pages and stories. I do have the teacher's manual and student pages to go along with it and she does do as much she can minus online course material (we are not signed up for the online course). However, I wondered if there was somewhere that I could locate some tests for each chapter or unit. The student pages do have partial unit assessments but I was hoping for something to help gauge how much she is retaining and understanding overall. Thanks.

Hello, We are going to be using Hake 6 Grammar & Writing, but we're dropping the writing portion of Hake and using EIW instead for writing. Are there any of you who have done this and would you happen to have a schedule/ scope & sequence for using them together? Thanks.

Thank you all for your responses. When it comes to grammar, my dd struggles the most with identifying parts of speech. She understands the difference between verbs and nouns but then when things get more complicated such direct objects, subjective complements, prepositions, compound subjects/compound predicates. Then in writing, she struggles coming up with ideas for stories and then organizing them. She has a hard time making sentences interesting. These were areas that I struggled with all throughout school without much help and I have hard time helping her so we need a curriculum with a lot of handholding. I'm looking at IEW for writing and Hake for grammar. Thank you again!

We are finishing up our first year of homeschooling and my 11 year old daughter is struggling with writing book reports & just writing in general. She has a hard time thinking up and organizing ideas and struggles with grammar a bit. She scored "well below average" in the CAT test on language expression section. She is enrolled in 5th grade Seton and while I like the program overall for her, the English is too advanced and she's not getting it and unless I organize the book report for her. I am open to the possibility of not having her enroll in the fall and putting together my own curriculum. What curriculum can you recommend for a child struggling with writing & grammar? Thank you!

Hello, I am also in the Fingerlakes region of NY. I have a soon to be kindergartener that I will be homeschooling and an 11 year old. I live in a big college town, but there is a big network of homeschoolers I am connected with.