juliajulia Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 My son was in a one day tutoring program and they did Saxon Math 2. It was a piece of cake for him. For his 3rd grade year should I do Math 3 or Intermediate 3 if we stay with Saxon? What are the differences? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliajulia Posted May 7, 2013 Author Share Posted May 7, 2013 Do both versions cover the same information? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Intermediate moves MUCH faster. I see a big difference in the two. I will have my own kids do both because I think it is helpful to learn to use a self-teaching textbook using math concepts that are a review laid out in a faster paced sequence. My daughter is going through Intermediate now at a rate of 2 lessons per day and it takes her about an hour by herself plus a few minutes with me going over any corrections. She is an older child, however so she may have some advantages that way. I intend for my second child to do it next summer and he will be 9 when he does it. The rest of my children will hopefully do it at 8. If you have any more specific questions I will try to help..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliajulia Posted May 9, 2013 Author Share Posted May 9, 2013 Intermediate moves MUCH faster. I see a big difference in the two. I will have my own kids do both because I think it is helpful to learn to use a self-teaching textbook using math concepts that are a review laid out in a faster paced sequence. My daughter is going through Intermediate now at a rate of 2 lessons per day and it takes her about an hour by herself plus a few minutes with me going over any corrections. She is an older child, however so she may have some advantages that way. I intend for my second child to do it next summer and he will be 9 when he does it. The rest of my children will hopefully do it at 8. If you have any more specific questions I will try to help..... When you say you have them do both, what exactly do you mean? One for a school year and then the other the next year, or pick and chose throughout one school year, or something else. Saxon 2 was VERY easy for my son so on one hand I am thinking Intermediate. But then with this year going so well and EASY I don't want to frustrate him with hitting him with something too challenging which makes me think perhaps Math 3 would be better. But then do we just have to face the big change into more difficult the next year??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katlew82 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 My son is doing intermediate 3... It has definitely been challenging to him, and we like it EXCEPT we didn't get the workbook (didn't know about it until recently!), and I feel that having to copy everything onto his own piece of paper messes him up a lot... If he doesn't exactly copy a digit correctly, he will get the problem wrong, etc... Some things get lost in translation that way... But we LOVE that it's not scripted like the K-3 program, he can (pretty much) work on it independently, but what I don't love is the copying onto a separate sheet, and that with the "power up" section, the work can actually end up taking a long time for him... Does everyone do the power up every day? That's what we've been doing and it just can get to be very time consuming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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