Good article but terrible headline writing as usual. I thought that someone went to war based upon faulty mathematics when I started to read...lol.
Thanks for sharing.. my kids hate math so Saxon is quite inspirational.
Bookmarking this for later, because calc kicked my ass.
Sylvanus P Thompson, FRS encountered similar “establishment” ridicule when he published his “the Calculus Made Easy” in 1910. The book remains popular - and is still in print over a century later. (Another engineer, ha! “You don’t have to explain how to construct a watch in order to read the time “— Thompson
One of Saxon’s friends was Jaime Escalante, the math instructor in a Los Angles barrio high school, whose unbelievable success with Hispanic students was portrayed in the movie “Stand and Deliver.” It helped establish his legacy. Saxon supporters have often wished a movie could be made about him. Perhaps then people could see where his heart was, but why he had to use a clenched fist to help America’s children in math education. Then his legacy might also be memorialized.
While it appears that he did not use Mr/Col Saxon's book, Mr Escalante's history showed that his success was attacked by the 'educrats' in his school system. Unionized Academia is essentially socialist by nature, desiring to behead all who stick over others while protecting those who never grow!
That’s the way I learned electronics in the Air Force. “Blocks” of instruction, each block a different topic. And each block broken down into sub-units. Each sub-unit was taught until mastered. Then,the block was taught as a whole.
Scored 100% in the course.
My teacher in Advance Math was great but the book was the worst math text ever.
congrats to Mr. Saxon and the brave math teachers who keep trying to do a good job.
TWB
bttt
When certain people want to disguise and obscure a very simple concept like "the study and practice of how best to teach" they use terms like pedagogy.to impress and confuse. I was well into my forties, with a Bachelors and Masters degree, when I first heard a terminally liberal associate use the term. Up to that time "how best to teach" was a very clear and unambiguous concept.
Just reading the names makes me miss some friends and his books sound great.
Instead of signing up for a class, I'm going to buy the Saxon Advanced Math Home Study Kit and use it to relearn concepts and how to think in math again.
After a few birthdays and a few too many bumps to the head, I like reinstalling the old programming and making sure whatever's left in memory isn't too scrambled from neglect and damage.
Some of my posts here make me wonder about me sometimes...yikes.
New math took over.
If the velocity of Jonnie’s car is 2 feet per second per second, and assuming a top speed of 50 mph how racist is Jonnie?
My kids had Saxon math in the rural county where they grew up. When we moved to a more metropolitan area they were confronted with “fuzzy” math. The only thing that saved them was a solid grounding in basic arithmetic from Saxon math.
Today’s math miseducation almost appears to be a plot to strip America of her engineers and scientists, causing an artificial need for foreigners on visas.
bflr
I used Saxon in my homeschool.