John H. Saxon Jr. (1923 – 17 October 1996) was a U.S. air officer and educator. He was born in Georgia and graduated from high school in Athens, Georgia. He earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1949 and his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1961. Saxon flew 55 missions in a B-26 Night Intruder during the Korean War. After the war, he wrote or co-wrote a series of nine mathematics textbooks for kindergarten through high school which use an incremental teaching method often called "Saxon math". His books have gained popularity among certain traditionally-oriented groups of homeschoolers and private schools, but are also used in a number of public schools. While editing a calculus book in October 1996 with mathematician R. Abraham Edwards, Saxon died due to a complicated illness.
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