Saxon Math offers proven results in this 1st grade homeschool teacher book with activity lessons.
Click here to see sample pages. The Saxon Math 1 Teacher's Manual is the cornerstone book in this homeschool curriculum, with over 500 pages of detailed daily lesson plans for a full year of first grade math instruction. Saxon's Teacher's Manual for Math 1 is one of the most detailed available anywhere with 4 to 6 pages per lesson. Saxon has done the work, preparing each day's lesson and laying it all out so the teacher has less preparation work to do... just follow the instructions provided.
Saxon Math 1 Teacher's Manual can be purchased separately here or as part of a complete set that includes the hands on math manipulatives required to teach the curriculum.
Saxon Math 1 1st Edition expands on the language and concepts presented in Math K. First grade children will skip count by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's; compare and order numbers; identify ordinal position to tenth; identify a sorting rule; identify and extend patterns; solve routine and non-routine problems; master all basic addition facts and most of the basic subtraction facts; add two-digit numbers without regrouping; picture and name fractions; measure using inches, feet, and centimeters; compare volume, mass, and area; tell time to the half hour; count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters; identify and draw polygons; identify geometric solids; tally; and create, read, and write observations from real graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs. © 1994; 130 lessons.
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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.
John Saxon - Founder of Saxon Publishers |
