WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES AMONG THE VARIOUS SAXON MATH TUTORIALS ON THE MARKET TODAY?
While at the Texas Home School Convention in The Woodlands (located just outside Houston, TX), I was repeatedly asked by homeschool educators to explain to them the difference between the DVD series “MASTERING ALGEBRA, John Saxon’s Way”, the DIVE CD’s, the Saxon Teacher CD’s, and the Teaching Tapes DVD series. That is an excellent question because some companies confuse the situation when they advertise their CD’s as being “video” products when in fact they are not DVD’s, but CD’s containing a graphic presentation with audio. The abbreviation DVD stands for “Digital Video Disc.” Basically, here are the differences. DIVE CD’s: The product covers John Saxon’s math books from Math 54 through Calculus. Each level textbook has a single CD containing instruction corresponding to each individual lesson in that textbook. The presentation is a whiteboard presentation which means there is no teacher to watch at the board. The student hears the teacher’s voice in the background and watches writin
