- 55
- Episodes
- 2
- Transcribed
- 80
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About However Imperfectly
Welcome to, However Imperfectly where homeschooling and homemaking intersect. This podcast is for the homeschool mom who desires to educate her children with a rich Charlotte Mason education and also has meals to put on the table and laundry to sort each day. I am your host, Joy Cherrick. I hope you find encouragement as we explore the ideas of Charlotte Mason in the context of our modern homes. Mason provides the principles for living and learning with our children that offers education unlike the one we received and a full life together. We don’t have time for the latest educational fad. We
- Publisher
- Joy Cherrick
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 24 Aug 2026
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Building a Strong Math Foundation in Early Childhood

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Building a Strong Math Foundation in Early Childhood
Published 24 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so for early on, one to ten, the child must really understand the representation. Now, here's the problem. So, Those numbers are abstract. By themselves, they mean absolutely nothing. And really, according to Piaget's child development, abstract thinking comes in at age 12. Let's think about that for just a minute. So we're worried about our first grader with math, giving them numbers when they don't have the capacity for abstract thinking. really careful if they don't have the understanding for abstract thinking then they're going to try to memorize it and there's the pathway where math goes bad you cannot memorize math i see early kids coming from school with learning equations one plus one is two two plus two is three is four sorry anyway so what they're doing is memorizing math and now we're putting math in the memory channel In terms of learning, we learn one of two ways. […]
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