Just Do The Math Article

Since we started homeschooling, I've read a few books by David H. Albert. There was a chapter in “Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow. Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love” that fascinated me because it was about math.

An excerpt from the chapter:

"I had just explained how the Sudbury Valley School (www.sudval.org), a democratically managed, child-directed learning environment that has been around for almost 40 years, has demonstrated repeatedly that a child could learn math – all of it grades K through 12 – in eight weeks. Average (if there is such a thing), normal (never met one), healthy children, scores of them, learned it all, leading to admissions to some of the leading colleges and universities in the nation".

EIGHT WEEKS? Only 20 contact hours? I've never heard of such a thing. The article went on to describe how this was done.

Reading this gave me a huge sense of relief that there's not one exclusive formula for learning math. It also gave me "permission" to reconsider how and when my children will learn computation skills. This is very freeing! Thank you SO much David!