Well, it has happened . . . . I do believe I am "over" Saxon Math. It has become increasingly montonous and sloooooow to trudge through. My son is starting to dislike math and I hate that because he used to enjoy it.
I was guided toward Teaching Textbooks by a New Beginnings home school veteran. We have done a couple of assessment tests there.
6th and 7th grade - he breezed through
Tomorrow we will test at the 8th grade level
BUT! After talking with a fellow homeschooler - I learned that her oldest son had some problems with the beginning Algebra in the Teaching Textbooks program. Let me note that her son is brilliant. I had read that there were some glitches that others had experienced at the Algebra level, also.
She uses ALEKS and really likes it. Both of her boys are older than mine and I admire her choices in other curriculum choices. There is a 48 hour complimentary trial with ALEKS.
We will do the TT 8th grade assessment tomorrow and then move into our free trial with ALEKS after that.
Saxon will always be there if we need to come back to it! :-)
The link to ALEKS.
Here goes!
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