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Item Code: SAX-MK
Saxon Math offers proven results in this kindergarten homeschool teacher book with activity lessons. Saxon Math Kindergarten curriculum books 1st Edition Complete Set with manipulatives has been carefully planned and packaged. Each set comes with all the material required for one-on-one instruction including the Teacher's Manual, the Meeting Book, and the math manipulatives set designed specifically for Saxon Math K. The manipulatives are required to complete many of the lessons in this curriculum. The math manipulatives come in a convenient 14-inch plastic storage tub.

While using the Saxon Math Kindergarten curriculum, kindergartners will build skills including oral counting, number recognition, and sequencing; identifying ordinal position; acting out addition and subtraction stories; counting with one-to-one correspondence; sorting; patterning; graphing real objects and pictures; identifying and counting pennies, dimes, and nickels; identifying one half; identifying shapes; covering and replicating geometric designs; measuring using nonstandard units of measure; telling time to the hour; and using a calendar. Suggestions for learning center practice and extension activities are included. © 1994; 112 lessons.

Saxon Math Teaching Philosophy:
Learning need not be difficult, but neither does it happen quickly. Time is the elixir that turns things new into things familiar. Therefore, the most effective way for students to learn is through gentle development of concepts and the practice of those concepts extended over a considerable period of time. John Saxon called these methods incremental development and continual review and he applied them to mathematics and the fundamental skills of reading.

At its simplest, incremental development is the introduction of topics in easily understandable pieces (increments), permitting the assimilation of one facet of a concept before the next facet is introduced. Both facets are then practiced together until another is introduced.

The incrementalization of topics is combined with continual review, wherein all previously learned material is reviewed in every lesson for the entire year. Topics are never dropped but are instead increased in complexity and practiced every day, providing the time required for concepts to become totally familiar.

As Saxon math concepts become familiar and the requisite skills become automated, learning becomes a game at which students can succeed and through which they find satisfaction and self-worth. More importantly, the automation of fundamental skills frees students' minds to consider the Saxon math concepts on a more abstract level.

Genuine learning is demonstrated not only through the understanding of a concept, but also through the ability to apply that concept to new situations. Saxon math students do both with ease and confidence.