Welcome to The Educating Parent Beverley Paine's archive of articles about homeschooling and unschooling written over a period of 30 plus years

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Introduction to
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Homeschool Learning Plans
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CURRICULUM: MATHEMATICS

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Beverley writes about her experiences helping her children learn, sharing her insights about how they learned to read, write, calculate, problem solve and the different ways they explored their world. Beverley has added links to favourite websites that also help to demystify teaching and make it easy for home educating parents to plan and implement learning activities.

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