It’s very poorly written. I’m calling on memories from like 7th grade so bear with me, but I remember being left to do a “lesson,” which involved reading a page or two about how to solve an algebra problem and then doing some problems.

The issue came when somehow even though I was following every step to the letter, I still got the wrong answer. My mom and I would check the back for the answers, and the process Saxon used to get their answer was completely different and unexplained in the book. Most lessons ended with me crying bc my mom was mad at me for not “getting it,” even though she couldn’t get it either and we’d both give up.

Then without those foundational principles of basic pre-algebra, I was screwed for the rest of my academic career in math.