Here's what we recommend:

1. Watch all of the Nicole the Math Lady lesson video.
2. Do a Lesson practice set. These are practice problems to make sure the student understood the teachings in the video.  You can either do the Nicole the Math Lady practice problems video and/or do the lesson practice set in your book.
3. Do the mixed practice set in the book (the one with the 30 problems.) It’s a lot…we know…but the Saxon method recommends you do all 30 problems for the best results. However, we also know this can be too much for some students, so some people chose to do odds or evens problems instead.

We recommend the "do a problem, grade a problem" method.  What's that you ask?

• Most people do all of the problems first and then grade them. If your child makes a mistake in the first problem, they will probably continue to make that mistake for the rest of the practice set.  It’s hard to unlearn something that might have gone into your brain wrong. 
• Instead, if you do a problem, then grade a problem, the student can correct the problem immediately.  The online grading feature makes it easy to do this.  
• It’s best to have your student work their answers out in a spiral notebook. They can keep their work there and if they get something incorrect, you can see what they did.