If you Google "Saxon Math Textbooks" to find information on this series of math textbooks, every link is breathless with worship of these books. I don't understand it.
I know some studies proved that the books were very effective with children from low-income families. Now, I am not a fan of the new new math or constructivism or putting lots of pictures in math books or any of that crap, but all the sites I read chastised state textbook adoption boards for not adopting these books. The fact is these books suck! Having used them in an actual classroom setting, I believe the claims that they work well with below-average students, but if you have an average (or God help you, an above-average) student, these books are worse than useless. I believe they are detrimental.
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