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Summary: A 2 year book except for the world's most motivated people
Review: I'm in the second half (it's 12th grade equivalent, I'm 16 1/2) and boy is it hard! I would recommend that anyone doing any Saxon book from Algebra 1 up get the Dive CDs by David Shormann, but that's a seperate review.With 125 lessons and 689 pages, this is a hard and long book... You can plan on spending 2 years in this book. Avoid the hype saying that "You must buy a graphing calculator!" Problems as early as Algebra 1 call for it, but there is not enough information in the books to do the problems properly.
We went ahead and bought a calculator (and they are expensive!) only to confront the impossible problems. Contacting Saxon's 24 hour email hotline, they told me I should take college courses of graphing calculator instruction before attempting these problems. (!?!) And if I couldn't do that, to just skip them. So okay! Fine! Now you will require a scientific calculator, if you haven't already got one. You should be able to get it for under $15, also if you want to do school near a computer (and with the Dive CDs you do) Quickbooks has a calculator in it that can be changed to scientific function... Saxon math is hard but you can feel your brain stretching.
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