This video just came up in my feed and I loved it! I actually love The Good and the Beautiful and use it with most of my kids. What I love about this video is how incredibly kind and real and non-judgemental you are. You give off really good vibes and it is clear that you are an amazing person and mom.💕🙂

Thank you so much for making this video! We are in our 5th grade year, and it feels like our math curriculum is just not working for us. I’ve been researching various options for next year. It really helped to hear your pros and cons for the various math programs you’ve tried. Thank you for sharing! I will definitely look into Saxon w/ The Math Lady!

Love your honest thoughts and review Brit! You are right.. you have to do what is right for your homeschool! Glad that this new curriculum seems like a good fit ❤🙏

Thank you for sharing so many of your great tips! I am planning to start homeschooling my son this year for 6th grade and Math is a huge concern for me. I’m happy to hear that this new curriculum is working well for your daughter.

We use and love Saxon as well. The first 4 weeks or so are review, so don’t be surprised when it ramps up and there’s lots of new concepts. Saxon is solid! Love that.

Glad you are so attentive to your daughter's needs and willing to change it up! We started the year with TGATB simply K math. My daughter was always excited for it. It was really beautiful. However, she didn't retain info and wasn't gaining good number sense. I also found it frustrating that there is no troubleshooting for the parent. All you have is what is written in each lesson. We switched to Kindergarten Math with Confidence. The teacherd guide is the main book and gives the parent so much (though not too much!) Info to know the why of things and how to work on trouble areas. Things are going so much better. We are now using TGATB for review work.

I would love to hear more about this Nicole The Math Lady! Math continues to be an issue in our homeschool.

I’m a 2nd year homeschooler too. We started Saxon last year and continued this year (8/7 for 7th grade and 6/5 for 5th.). No plans to change in the future. It’s not exciting or pretty but it’s super solid with a good blend of mastery/spiral IMO.

We also switched to Saxon this year and Nicole the Math Lady and it has been great! I love the grading aspect as well!

Saxon is awesome!! Working great for my 12 and 13 year olds. And we are using Nicole the Math Lady as well lol. Dynamite combo!

Saxon is a classic. I used Saxon in middle school and abeka for early elementary at a Christian school. In highschool, I started taking college algebra at my community college (because my hs didn’t offer dual credits), and I breezed through it. I ended up with a physics degree with a minor in math so I’d say I was well prepared. I ended up teaching Saxon algebra 2 at a homeschool hybrid program and they use Abeka for k-3 then transition to 5/4. Most kids find Saxon to be easy with that transition but it’s good because the math is easy while the executive function transitions to be more difficult as math goes away from the worksheet to having to write out problems, and having to do multistep problems. I feel like it’s a gentle transition yet a solid math foundation. Good on you for not jumping her up too fast. With Saxon it is easy to go faster once she gets it. She can also skip 8/7 and do Algebra 1/2 or vice versa if she’s finding that easy. And she can also skip geometry if doing Saxon Advanced math later on too. (Shoreman math is similar to Saxon and based on Saxon but with more prep for standardized tests in those later years and they offer that same integrated geometry approach that Saxon started out with). I love hearing your updates!

My oldest is using Saxon Algebra 1 this year and we love it.

I love your videos. You have such a sweet spirit about you.

Wow, I feel like we are on the same math journey.....I think the last time I commented we had gone back to Abeka....well after that we went back to Simply Good and Beautiful and we are just not happy. I had just printed out the saxon placement test and have been watching some of the reviews on it and think we are definitely going with it for 5th grade. Trying to decide what to do for the rest of this year...and it may be to switch now. I have looked at some of Nicole the math lady's videos and they look awesome. So, I will see.

oh hai!! Fellow GA here too. :) Math is so hard, we are sticking with BJU for our 3rd grader, so far it is going great. I am glad you are working one on one with your child, homeschooling is a blessing for that.

This is our 9th year homeschooling and I switched my 9th grader to Saxon with Nicole the Math Lady for Algebra 1. It's our first experience with Saxon, and I'm considering changing my others to it next year! I really love the way it teaches and the amount of practice that it gives.

We LOVE Saxon! So simple! Has nice repetition. My oldest has ADHD and while he loves math, he gets overwhelmed easily and Saxon doesn’t stress him out! I hope y’all love it!

This is so helpful! We have been on the never ending math saga. I feel like every program is either too conceptual or too procedural. It feels like the hardest subject to fit. I was about to order the good and the beautiful, but we definitely need a good bit of practice. We used abeka in the beginning and I felt like it spiraled too quickly and she wasn't getting the concepts. We used math u see and I also enjoyed the video lesson aspect of that program but we are in Georgia also and have to test every three years starting next year in third so we really need something works on grad level. Sorry that was a novel, but it is so frustrating fitting math. 🤯

My 6th grade son does very well with Saxon and Nicole the Math Lady! I plan to keep using through high school!

My son is dyslexic and we STRUGGLE with math....I have tried Good and Beautiful also, found there is not enough review but it is BEAUTIFUL, lol:) Also tried Christian Light Education (CLE). They have 10 wook books for each year (hence the word "light" because they are broken down into 10 workbooks, which take around 3 weeks to do for each workbook). Starting in 4th grade, you can also purchase a traditional textbook if you prefer over workbook. I just like my son to be able to write in a workbook. Christian Light is VERY affordable VERY, VERY, VERY well done. It feel it is incremental, but introducing new concept from time to time....great for kids who need lots of review. From what I have read, it is considered on the advance side for "old school math" so I set my son one year back (3rd grade math even though he is in fourth grade). I also really like BJU math too...not quite as much review as Christian Light but still a GREAT curriculum. The biggest problem with many math curriculums today (from what my 80 year old mother told me) is there is not enough review. You don't practice a piano piece a few times and move on to the next one and expect perfection or mastery. You may have to practice 100s of times depending on how difficult the piece is. My mother taught algebra in public school in the 1960s and 1970s... a lot of "modern" math tries to push kids too hard before they are developmentally ready for it. For some kids this works, but sadly this "push method" catches up with them later. I like to use the analogy... look that kid can do the "layup" in basketball but cannot dribble the ball down the court....same idea in math if you push too hard to "advance" and do not develop the fundamentals well then you will probably face more challenges later on. Don't feel badly about changing curriculums. It is a process to find the right fit for YOUR child, and sometimes it takes a few school years to tweak things. And it might change from time to time again and that is OKAY! That is why we homeschool. We are able to choose the BEST option for our kids for each season of life:) On a side note, I have not tried SAXON Math but I just wanted to comment on what worked for my struggling dyslexic son:) Looks like you are a caring mom and you will in end find the right fit for your children!

I am so interested in your Saxon reviews. I am trying to figure out my next school year and Abeka and Saxon is in the running. With me in my 4th year of homeschooling I will tell you, you know what’s best for your baby 💕

I love Saxon math, the solid foundation it gives is wonderful.

Needed this ❤

non homeschooler here but worksheets are given in the home. introduced 3rd grade math early. this kid wants to be a astronaut so math is vital. i feel like school math is behind so i had to look online for workbooks/sheets. this was a good review

I love Saxon and will continue next year for my boys it just works.

We have used a lot of Abeka math in the early years but...have not been a fan of it for higher grades. I actually did Abeka math all through high school and it was the only subject I ever hated--I went on to take a math class in college, and I was like, "Why is this so easy?!!" The college math class was easier than all my high school math classes simply because it was a very well-done class. Saxon! It's been around forever for a reason. I think I did Saxon math for a few years, around the same age as your daughter.

Very informative video. We use Abeka and most parents I talk to move on to Saxon after Abeka 3. Right now were finishing up Abeka 1 and I will use again for second grade. For third grade we will be moving on to Saxon Intermediate 3. At least that's my plan right now. Lol!

I had a feeling you might change your math based on what you sent me 😉😂 math is HARD to find a good fit!

Did you buy the solutions and worksheets/tests books for Saxon as well or did you just get the student text?

Saxon is what we use and never had to look for another. If my daughter struggles i have a blank notebook to practice on the side and we wait to move on to the next lesson. However we do struggle to finish the entire curriculum on time.

We just quit TGTB Math Level 2. It.was so fast jumping up and down and no review. Switching to Abeka Academy.

Anyone use THINK WELL for math for 7th grade or any grade level

I loved Saxon math, unfortunately my son did not like the mixed practice ☹️. Now we use Math mammoth and he loves it.

I'm so happy you've found something! Sounds like us when switching from Abeka to Math Mammoth. My son isn't a fan of fluff either, especially in math. I actually had heard that Abeka 4th grade arithmetic is when a lot of homeschoolers decide to make a switch due to the pace of the curriculum.

I recently switched my daughter from Abeka. I loooooove abeka but I think the spiral approach was just too much for her right now. We will revisit next school year which is in august.

You've changed again? I thought I was bad at switching curriculum. Hopefully this helps. I can't believe I left Abeka math for anything else.

BJU is a gem for math that many dont talk about

Saxon is very Solid. I know it can feel over whelming for kids to have to do all the problem s but I know that even if they o my do half it’s they are still getting a lot of good practice.

typo below....workbooks, not wook books, sorry!!!

My daughter is the same way with math she likes no fluff when it comes to math.

I love Singapore Math, but I couldn't use it with my youngest who loves workbooks. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We moved from TGATB math to CLE math. best thing for my kids ever.

I really like TGATB . But you do have to supplement it. It's just not enough. I agree with you more than I agree with the state standards. You should already know these multiplication tables. The state standards for 4th grade math is still the same as it was when I was in 4th grade 30 years ago.

My daughter likes repetition, no fluff. You know your child best.

Is Saxon religious or?