Children\'s Mathematics

Sovay Thirteen. Mum No, three. Sovay Fourteen. Parents do ask questions of a testing type as well as teachers. This nearly 3-yea ...

own meanings of mathematics on paper at home and continue to build on this, pro- vided it is recognised in school. Children have ...

members do, during one week. Some parents noticed a great deal of mathematics in everyday experiences such as birthdays, sharing ...

siblings use mathematics for real purposes such as ‘measuring a curtain rail and esti- mating how many hooks to buy for curtains ...

texts of mathematics and the variety of marks and written methods. The few com- ments noted by parents during the seven days inc ...

including ‘paying money in to bank’ or ‘filling the petrol tank of the car.’ A high pro- portion of comments related to social a ...

shared practice and understandings about the children’s mathematical development. When teachers and parents do share their under ...

the chalk board when they’re thinking about the numbers that are really difficult for them, such as ‘5’, ‘2’ and ‘8’. Many child ...

a little of the child’s inner world of meanings and possibilities. Further Reading Parents and families Whalley, M. (1994) Lear ...

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential mat ...

more readily through informal and idiosyncratic working’ (Anghileri, 2001b, p. 18). Newman argues that ‘activities that involve ...

Sophie, 5:5 CCaann II ccoolloouurr iitt iinn?? I would like to listen to what you have to say about these interest- ing marks yo ...

Would you expect to see written mathematics develop in the same way as their writing? We can see many similarities in children’s ...

supports a whole-school approach. Such a document provides examples of children’s written mathematics from nursery through to 11 ...

than copied numbers or sums) is an invaluable means of assessment. Change can be threatening for us all but it will reassure col ...

Figure 12.1 Using own written methods methods she would not have answered this question. Out of three schools we surveyed we fou ...

Throughout time and now throughout a greater part of the world, print – and other marks that humans make in order to reflect on ...

Reflections 237 cators, too confined in their views of mathematics then we shall produce a genera- tion of adders and dividers r ...

We have drawn on 14 separate pieces of our own research for this book. Research with children MEd dissertation: The ‘Sovay stud ...

Research with parents and their children Parents’ schema diaries, children 4–6 years: records of their children’s schema inter- ...