Most homeschool math curriculum has the parent phasing out of the lessons pretty quickly.

They might get the child started when they're young, but then very soon it's all turned

over to the student to do independently.

But that's not the Charlotte Mason way.

Let's talk about the differences and why Charlotte Mason thought it was so important and so beneficial

for the parent to be involved in the math lessons all the way through.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer. Today joining me in the studio is my friend and co-worker, Rochelle Baborana.

Michelle, so glad to have you back. Thank you for having me.

We have a question we want to discuss today about Charlotte Mason math. So we thought, why not ask you?

Just because you wrote it, you know.

I appreciate that.

In so many other math curriculum, when they approach math, they have the parent involved when the child's very young.

But then very quickly, the parent kind of takes a back seat and it's all dependent on the child interacting with videos or interacting with the book itself and doing the work independently.

So the homeschool parent is like, here, go do your math lesson.

Let me know if you have any questions or something like that.

How is that different from a Charlotte Mason

approach and why did Charlotte do it a different way? Where do you want to start in that level?

Okay. That's a great question. So I think maybe I'll start, I'd like to start out just talking

about the role of the parent teacher and the Charlotte Mason approach and her philosophy of education.

And then I'd like to give a quote from Charlotte herself specific to mathematics.

Oh, wonderful. Okay, yeah, let's talk about that. All right. So the first one is from Essex Chumley in the story of Charlotte Mason.

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