Despite the best efforts of governments, schools and parents there’ll be learning losses across the board and worsened educational outcomes for the poor.
The good news: your child can use their fingers and you can too.
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Your cheat sheet for best practices in teaching math at home. Keep it positive and mask your shock when your child tells you there are many ways to multiply numbers.
If you discuss ideal parts of cocoa to sugar, you’ve just discussed ratios.
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Improving a child’s sense of numbers, and their understanding of probability, fractions, ratios, shapes and patterns, can all be incorporated into daily life or with simple games.
Discuss how flying less could help the planet.
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Around 20,000 students are homeschooling in Australia. It’s a different form of schooling to learning from home while schools are shut due to COVID-19. But homeschooling does provide some tips.
Many school kids may be studying from home as their schools have closed or they need to isolate themselves for other reasons. Parents won’t need to be teachers, but more teachers’ aids.
Homeschooling allows more creativity in the way the curriculum is delivered.
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Homeschooling can be worth it if parents or guardians who choose to educate their children this way know the challenges. Here are the three main ones.
International research suggests homeschooled students’ achievements are as good, if not better, than those of their schooled peers.
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Do homeschooled children miss out on quality education from trained teachers? Research says no – homeschooled students do just as well, if not better, than those who go to school.
Children who are homeschooled spend a lot of time in community environments.
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For Fabiano Caruana, the path to the world chess championship veered away from formal schooling. FAMU professor and chess writer Daaim Shabazz retraces the young grandmaster’s educational journey.
Suzi Ailes, right, and Kris Smith study schoolwork for SusQ-Cyber Charter School in their home in Milton, Pennsylvania.
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Homeschooling is a growing trend in America. Children learning at Woodlands Nature Station in Kentucky.
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