The number of homeschoolers has grown seven times faster than the number of students attending public schools over the last couple of decades. What does this mean for public libraries? Homeschooling families have always turned to libraries to supplement their educational needs, so as homeschooling increases nationwide, the number of homeschooling patrons will increase as well. There are several steps your public library can take to become more homeschool-friendly.

Here you can generate printable math worksheets for a multitude of topics: all the basic operations, clock, money, measuring, fractions, decimals, percent, proportions, ratios, factoring, equations, expressions, geometry, square roots, and more. There are also pages that list worksheets by grade levels.

This timeline details the important events leading to the growth of the homeschool movement in Georgia.

Learn the concept of 10s with these simple bead and pipe cleaner manipulatives.

Do the public school authorities feel threatened by homeschooling? Judging by their efforts to lure homeschooling families into dependence on local school districts, the answer is apparently yes. For the last several years, homeschooling has been the fastest growing educational alternative in the country. The sheer number of homeschoolers represent a distinct threat to the hegemony of the government school monopoly. Qualitatively, the academic success of homeschoolers, measured by standardized test scores and recruitment by colleges, debunk the myth that parents need to hire credentialed experts to force children to learn.

This collection of online games offers math games for grades 1-6.

LessonPlanz.com is a searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects.

Chalk Dust Company offers mathematics instruction on videotape to homeschooled students and a variety of other users. Textbooks used in Chalk Dust programs are published by Houghton Mifflin Company and most are authored by Ron Larson. Offers solutions guides and personal help when needed via telephone or the internet, providing a comprehensive and effective distance-learning environment.

This infographic from OnlineCollege.org features a graphical representation of the history of homeschooling, methodologies, statistics, and other interesting facts.

A former high school English teacher shares some of the ways that reading, writing, and grammar are learned naturally through living.