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SUMMARY:'Finding the maths': Empowering parents to support children's out-
 of-school mathematics learning&quot\; - Dr Tim Jay \, Reader in Education\
 ,Sheffield Institute of Education\, Sheffield Hallam University. 
DTSTART:20150310T163000Z
DTEND:20150310T180000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar I will be talking about the Everyday Maths Pro
 ject - a 2 year project funded by the Nuffield Foundation. We set out to e
 xplore ways to help parents find ways to support their children's mathemat
 ics learning that avoided some of the difficulties of school-centred appro
 aches to parental involvement. I will focus on a series of workshops that 
 we designed and carried out for parents in four primary schools. The aim o
 f the workshops was to help parents 'find the maths' in their everyday fam
 ily activity\, and to explore ways to share this with their children. We w
 ere able to record significant transitions in parents' thinking as the wor
 kshops progressed\, around the ways that they thought about mathematics an
 d around the ways that they thought about their roles in their children's 
 education. The seminar will be an opportunity to think about ways in which
  challenging school-centred models of parental involvement in education ca
 n provide opportunities for learning that can otherwise be hard to find.\n
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LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, (Rm
  1S3\, Donald McIntyre Building)
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