The Saxon Method
Math That Sticks — One Small Step at a Time
Saxon introduces each concept in small increments, then reviews them continually so nothing slips away. It's an unhurried, mastery-first approach — and it asks a great deal of your paper. Every lesson brings practice, and every few lessons brings a test. That is the problem these workbooks were built to solve.
How the Method Works
1
Incremental Development
Saxon introduces each new idea in a small, manageable step — never a firehose. Students absorb one increment before the next arrives.
2
Continual Review
Every lesson revisits earlier skills, so concepts keep getting practiced long after they're first taught. Nothing is learned once and forgotten.
3
Cumulative Assessment
Frequent, cumulative tests confirm mastery over time — giving you clear evidence that a skill has truly stuck before you move on.
The Method Needs Somewhere to Land
Saxon supplies the lessons; the workbook gives your student the room to actually do them. Five years of revisions in my own homeschool went into these layouts — eight levels, Math 5/4 through Advanced Math.