Children\'s Mathematics

Research with parents and their children

• Parents’ schema diaries, children 4–6 years: records of their children’s schema inter-
  ests, observed at home (see Chapters 3 and 11)


• Group parents’ study (children aged 4–6 years): 31 mothers and fathers completed
  questionnaires of their children’s mathematics observed at home and their own,
  recalling experiences of learning mathematics (see Chapter 11)


• Holiday mathematical interest diaries, children 7–8 years: diaries kept during one
  summer vacation by parents of their children at home (see Chapter 11)

Research with teachers and practitioners

• Teaching young children written mathematics:273 teachers of children aged 3–8 years
  completed questionnaires about the ‘written’ mathematics they provided for the
  children they taught. Telephone interviews were conducted with a sample of these
  teachers (see Chapters 1 and 5)


• Teachers share children’s mathematics online(2003):an action-research project with
  teachers from Early Excellence Centres throughout England. Research supported
  by Mirandanet, and the Institute of Education, University of London and funded
  by the General Teaching Council and the DfES (Worthington, 2005b)


• Creativity and mathematics:study of teachers’ perceptions and practices relating to
  creativity in mathematics, through questionnaires and interviews (see Chapter 2),
  (Carruthers and Worthington, 2005b; Worthington, 2005a; Worthington, 2006)

Other research

• Nursery study India:teaching and learning in nursery schools in rural southern
  India (see Chapter 1)


• Study of mathematics SATs papersin four schools, focusing on the extent to which
  children used their own written methods (see Chapter 12)

Current research

• Cambridge Project (2005–2007): National Learning Network (DfES): ‘Raising the
  quality of the teaching and learning within the area of children’s development that leads
  to written calculations’ (nursery and reception)


• Doctoral study (in progress): multi-modality within children’s mathematical
  graphics (Worthington)


• Doctoral study (in progress) on pedagogical approaches to support children’s
  mathematical graphics (Carruthers)

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