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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saxon is mastery via a spiral method. The repetition means students know the material very well. It works for a broad range of students.

There is an old 1990s "60 Minutes" episode on Saxon Math available on YouTube. Worth watching even though the video is a bit grainy. [/quote]

The only I reason I know this was because I was looking at Saxon, but there is old versus new Saxon Math. Apparently people seem to prefer the old Saxon math, but I'm not sure why. I'm assuming the 60 minutes special would apply to the older version of Saxon Math.[/quote]

The homeschool version or edition is the "old" version. This was actually done by John Saxon before his death. His approach integrates geometry across several years (rather than having geometry has an entirely separate course that interrupts).  This is still available in print today -- RainbowResource.com is an example of a retailer.

The difference is that "new" Saxon Math was rewritten by other people (after Saxon died) and was significantly changed to appease the multi-state Common Core requirements. Geometry was separated out into a distinct course. This is what shows up first on the new publisher's website. [/quote]

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