TY - JOUR
T1 - Mathematics Knowledge for Parenting (MKP): Workshops to Help Parents Make Sense of Mathematics
AU - Eisenreich, Heidi
PY - 2016/2/25
Y1 - 2016/2/25
N2 - The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents of first, second, and third grade students who attended a two-day workshop on mathematics strategies differed on average and over time as compared to parents who did not attend the workshops regarding beliefs about learning mathematics and comfort level with manipulatives. These findings indicated that workshops for parents were beneficial. By giving parents the opportunity to engage in mathematics in ways similar to the way their children learn in the classroom, and by making sense of mathematics using different manipulatives, beliefs about the way children learn mathematics were challenged.
AB - The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents of first, second, and third grade students who attended a two-day workshop on mathematics strategies differed on average and over time as compared to parents who did not attend the workshops regarding beliefs about learning mathematics and comfort level with manipulatives. These findings indicated that workshops for parents were beneficial. By giving parents the opportunity to engage in mathematics in ways similar to the way their children learn in the classroom, and by making sense of mathematics using different manipulatives, beliefs about the way children learn mathematics were challenged.
KW - MKP
KW - Mathematics knowledge
KW - Parenting
UR - https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/math-sci-facpubs/479
UR - http://www.rcml-math.org/assets/Proceedings/rcml_proceedings--2016.pdf
M3 - Article
JO - Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML)
JF - Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML)
ER -