Saxon Math Homework Help

What Is Saxon Math?

Saxon Math is a curriculum for grades K-12 that's divided into four levels: primary (K-4), intermediate (3-5), middle grades (6-8) and secondary (9-12). This curriculum combines classroom instruction and guided practice with independent practice and student assessment.

Saxon Math is a kit-based program at the primary levels, but it transitions to a textbook-based approach at the intermediate level. To increase student understanding and performance, Saxon Math provides continuous skill practice and application. Students will also complete real-world activities and work with manipulatives (which are hands-on materials) and technology throughout the course of the program.

What Type of Homework Help Does Saxon Math Offer?

The Saxon Math website includes a student activity center that allows students to practice what they've been learning in the classroom. Once you've located the student activity center on the website, scroll down until you find the cover of your textbook. Select the appropriate text for your child, and you'll see each lesson listed, along with a corresponding activity. You can have your child complete activities related to what he or she is already learning in school, or you can direct your student towards activities that reinforce concepts he or she struggles with. Each of the homework help activities encourages students to think critically and communicate using correct mathematical terminology.

It's likely that parental guidance will be required for many of the activities because they involve the use of manipulatives or technology. For example, the 'Symmetry in Nature' activity, which is a typical resource from the site, asks students to find images of symmetrical plants and animals using the Internet. Next, students are instructed to print the images out and draw lines of symmetry on them.

Like many of the Saxon Math activities, this one requires special resources (the Internet and a printer); however, you can adapt most of the activities to the particular technology and materials that you have on hand. For instance, if you don't have access to the Internet and a printer, you might find pictures of symmetrical plants and animals in old newspapers, magazines or calendars.