Saxon was a great math program. I worked my way through the Algebra 2 book in 7th grade, and coasted on that until I reached college. For some reason (ahem-on

Saxon was a great math program. I worked my way through the Algebra 2 book in 7th grade, and coasted on that until I reached college. For some reason (ahem-one of the teachers helped write it-ahem) my high school used a different, much shittier math program. Until the second half of my senior year AP calculus class, I didn't have to cover anything that I hadn't done in the Algebra 2 book. Particularly for things like manipulating and simplifying systems of equations, the Saxon program was great, simply because it was built on repetition and practice - you would work through dozens of problems of a particular category over time. The other thing that was very nice about the Saxon program was that it would revisit older concepts - the problem sets would not just be on the current chapter concepts, you'd also have to work through material that had been covered over the previous 15-20 chapters. My mother is a special education teacher, and she's had success even with children that have serious memory deficits, because the repetition will pound the knowledge through into short, medium and long-term memory.