1. Engaging parents in mathematics 11 June 2012 Lisa Ashmore Porter Croft CE Primary School, Sheffield A workshop for the STEM Primary mathematics conference

2. Welcome  Introductions  Aims for the session : - Why do we need to engage parents? - How we could do this? - What does parental involvement look like?  Invitation to share

3. “The United Kingdom remains one of the few advanced nations where it is socially acceptable, fashionable even, to profess an inability to cope with mathematics.” An independent review of mathematics Sir Peter Williams ‘I’m not a teacher, that’s why we send them to school’.

4. Why?.... Change attitudes towards maths Marketing Subject knowledge / adult education * Enabling parent to help child with maths  Improve maths learning

5. Engaging Parents in a fun way Always, sometimes and Never activity

6. How? And an invitation to share Maths Workshops Maths parent forum/maths clubs * Celebrate maths achievement  Parent booklets  Maths trails  Questionnaires for parents/children

7. How to help your child with mathematics Workshop  Parents and children invited  An activity is set up on the table  The focus chosen was on a whole school initiative  Are they getting mixed messages from the media  Lots of fun activities and a resource pack at the end of the session, children to show-case any activities

8. What ? Homework/Resource Pack Ideas Games  Dice games: number bonds to 10/20 complements to 100 the three dice game Race games Other resources Investigations number chains multiplication tables coded tables

9. Other themes and activities Shape work Developing algebra Problem solving & investigation Money Implementation Participants’ experiences Questions, suggestions, etc Plenary

10. Thankyou Have a safe journey home Keep in touch to share and for more ideas. Lisa, Porter Croft CE Primary, Sheffield Joe, joe1013@sky.com joe1013@sky.com

11.  http://www.mad4maths.com/parents/