Saxon Math

Although the title of the blog is "Web" teaching resources, I would like to mention a non-Web resource that we have been using for first grade Math. The two popular private schools in the bay area are Challenger and Stratford, and both use the Saxon system of Math in their curriculum. My son attended KG at Stratford after which we moved him into a public school. Since he and we really liked the Saxon Math, we purchased the next level of that series from Amazon. Pros of this system - Very gentle, gradual progression through various Math concepts - addition, subtraction, estimation, time, etc. Unlike Kumon, each worksheet has a variety of activities, and this seems to work better with our son.   When new concepts are introduced, the child will need some help initially, but the burden on the parent/teacher is not much because of the slow and steady pace.