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The Hundred Chart is a simple tool that parents can use to help their children learn math. There are as many ways to use it as there are numbers on the chart, from teaching simple number recognition to learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and figuring out basic math patterns.
Recently gave my friend Mellissa a few copies [...]

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This afternoon I ran across an old letter to my son Erik in my computer, written over a dozen years ago. Reading it reminded me how I wound up writing an article later based on that correspondence. Today I’d like to reprint the article to encourage any overwhelmed homeschool parents out there. Here it is:
Home schooling our children was such [...]

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Note: a shorter version of this post will be published in the September 2009 issue of the Southwest Homeschool Network newsletter
“My son has trouble with division,” a young mom told me once. “I think it’s because he hasn’t memorized his multiplication facts.”
She explained that her child had figured out his own method for getting the [...]

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The Southwest Homeschool Network asked me to give a presentation for parents of Reluctant Readers for their conference last weekend. I don’t live with a reluctant reader anymore (he turned into a book-lover, grew up and left home) so I am lucky to have one who comes and visits me to remind me all about [...]

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