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The Life of the Math Lesson
Here's how a Charlotte Mason approach to math breathes life into lessons and keeps things interesting.
Category Math
Posts and articles about Charlotte Mason’s approach to teaching math.
The Discipline of Good Habits in the Charlotte Mason Math Lesson
You'll be surprised at just how many good habits you can form in your child with a well-taught math lesson!
The Atmosphere of the Charlotte Mason Math Lesson
Richele shares how Charlotte Mason math lessons help you retain a child's happy relationship with math—and a healthy relationship between you and your child.
Getting Started with Charlotte Mason Math
Richele Baburina joins Sonya for an overview of Charlotte Mason math lessons.
The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series, Book 2 Is Here!
Today we are excited to announce that The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic, Book 2, is now available!You are sure to enjoy these simple, lively lessons that will help your student gain a firm footing in addition, subtraction, and multiplication up…
Happy Results: Min Hwang’s Math Story
We’re hearing so many good things about Charlotte Mason’s way of teaching math! Parents tell us about improved attitudes, renewed interest and excitement, plus a solid understanding of arithmetic. Min Hwang’s experience is especially encouraging. Here is her Happy Results…
Charlotte Mason Math with Special Needs
It is 9:30 A.M. and my daughter is sitting in a brown chair in my office. She is ready for our school time. Though she is 19 now, we still home school, for she enjoys it—as witnessed by the fact…
Everyday Objects in the Charlotte Mason Math Lesson
(Here is another great post from Richele Baburina, author of the Charlotte Mason math handbook, Mathematics: An Instrument for Living Teaching, and its corresponding DVD set, Charlotte Mason’s Living Math: A Guided Journey.) I picked up my car from the…
Handwriting as a Joy in Math Lessons
(We are pleased to present the following post by Richele Baburina, author of Mathematics: An Instrument for Living Teaching and its corresponding DVD set, Charlotte Mason’s Living Math: A Guided Journey.) Charlotte Mason elementary arithmetic lessons are primarily oral. Rather…
Ideal Math Lessons for a Young Learner
Just for a moment, throw out all of your memories of math lessons from your school days. Set aside the images and promotional explanations from that math curriculum you were recently researching online. And let’s start from scratch. If we…
Teaching Math: Subject by Subject, Part 17
(I am so pleased to welcome a guest writer who excels at presenting an insightful summary of math the Charlotte Mason way. Richele Baburina has extensively researched Charlotte Mason’s approach to math and compiled her findings in her excellent book,…
Charlotte Mason’s Living Math: A Guided Journey, New DVD Set
In the teaching of math, Charlotte Mason believed that everything that can be demonstrated, should be demonstrated; or, in her words, “demonstrate everything demonstrable” (Vol. 1, p. 255). There is something about a hands-on demonstration that clarifies and cements the…
Paper Sloyd: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math, part 3
Several times a week Charlotte scheduled some type of handicraft for students in the elementary years. While all of her selected handicrafts gave those young students multiple benefits, one craft in particular was designed to give them confidence in mathematics:…
Mental Math: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math, part 2
You’re at the grocery store and you remember that you promised to make spaghetti for a family reunion. Happily, you notice a sale on pasta: buy three, get the fourth one free. Each box costs $0.99. You have $10 left…
Numbers and Sums: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math, part 1
A few months ago I hit a wall with my youngest and her progress in math. She was doing the work but not really understanding the concepts. So I e-mailed my friend, Richele Baburina, who has done extensive research in…