DO HOMESCHOOL EDUCATORS NEED THE NEW SAXON MATH TEXTBOOKS?
I have received both telephone calls and emails from homeschool educators wanting to know if they should buy the new Course 1 or Course 2 math textbooks. These are the two new sixth and seventh grade textbooks released by Harcourt Achieve just after they had acquired Saxon Publishers. The two textbooks are being offered on the Saxon school website but not on the Saxon Homeschool website. If you go to the Saxon school website and look under Middle School, you will notice that the new books are titled Saxon Math Course 1 which has a picture of a soccer ball on the cover, and Saxon Math Course 2, which has a picture of a pair of binoculars on the cover. Aside from changing the cover and title of the books, the content of the inside of the books remain virtually unchanged. The math content of these two math textbooks is identical to the math content of John Saxon’s Math 76, 3 rd or 4 th editions (now Course 1) and Math 87, 2 nd or 3 rd editions (now Course 2). One of the highlights of thei
