Charlotte Mason Math involves a lot of oral work where you ask your child a certain math

problem or question and that child responds orally. And as the child progresses, you can get

more and more involved in those oral questions. But what do you do if that child is having a hard

time remembering all of the numbers that

are involved in that question?

We're going to talk about that today.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Joining me today is my friend and co-worker

Rochelle Beborina. Rochelle, we are going to talk about oral work in the Charlotte

Mason arithmetic and how it's a great idea, but it also requires a lot of the student. It does.

Talk a little bit about that, would you?

All right.

So in book one especially, when your children are meeting the numbers 1 through 100, and once

we get to, I believe, the 20s, or maybe it's 30 through 100, we're taking 10 numbers at a time. We're taking

well, 9, 30 through 39, say. And we give a week, 10 days, maybe more, it's dependent on the child,

but we have oral work with these larger numbers. Now, Charlotte Mason, she

love to use arithmetic as a means of habit training, and some of those habits are attention and

concentration. And so we want to nurture our children to be able to get those, pay enough

attention to the question at hand that they are eventually able to keep those numbers in their

mind. At the same time, they are deciding, what am I going to do with these numbers?

Am I going to be adding or subtracting?

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