Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode 47.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and this week we'll join our friend Rochelle Baburina for a fascinating

conversation about Charlotte Mason and Math.

Plus today, we're launching an exciting campaign for the Wild and Free Farm Village

that's loaded with all sorts of amazing perks.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch.

Let's get started.

Let's get started. In just a few minutes, we're going to hear about two topics that you don't often hear about together, Charlotte Mason and Math.

Our friend Rochelle Baburina is the author of the Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic series,

and she's got some wonderful insights to share with us.

So when I first started reading Charlotte Mason's volumes, and I had my pencil out,

and she was using words like beauty and truth and awe.

And those weren't the words that I used to describe math.

So I really wanted to dig into it and find out just what that was.

You know, when she calls education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life.

It doesn't mean that math is a missing piece of the puzzle that just sets on top of everything

else, but it can actually be an instrument for living teaching just the same way that history

is or, you know, sitting with a pot of tea and your poetry or your

composer study. And you can have that same relationship with your child. And your child can have

a beautiful relationship with numbers as well. And this extends all the way through high school

and into life. But first, we've got an exciting announcement about the Wild and Free Farm Village.

Last year, the Wild and Free community came together to purchase a 177-acre retreat center

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