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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ doesn't all of DCPS use the same textbooks for math, i.e., not Saxon? The attack was on the Saxon method of teaching math with geometry mixed in instead of as a separate class, which is why BASIS expats end up getting screwed when they return to DCPS at Deal or Walls or wherever. The PP thinks BASIS goes too fast, but all they are doing is getting through each of the Saxon textbooks from front to back in one year.[/quote]

They go too fast, go one chapter after the other, sometimes skip chapters expecting the kids to do it on their own. The aim is to cover the book.
As for the pp whose kid is doing really great, it does not mean much.[/quote]

Saxon books have lessons, not chapters and they do a lesson each day. The class my DS is in didn't skip lessons. I have no idea of the exact number, but I think they got through about 105 - 110 lessons out of something like 130 total. I can kind of see how a teacher might skip a lesson though and it wouldn't be the end of the world. Each lesson has 30 problems and most of the questions are reviewing concepts from previous lessons.

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