Opportunities for learning in parent-child discussions about written numbers in everyday life

Voutsina, Chronoula, George, Lois and Flack, Stephanie (2025) Opportunities for learning in parent-child discussions about written numbers in everyday life. In, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; ERME, Feb2025, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. The Fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (04/02/25 - 08/02/25) HAL Open Science, pp. 2144-2152.

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Abstract

This paper presents findings from the ‘Written Numbers in Everyday Life’ project, that has been implemented with families of 3–5-year-old children in the UK and Jamaica. The project aims at empowering families to utilise opportunities for talk about written numbers on everyday objects in their environment. We conducted a qualitative thematic analysis of 72 posts (39 from the UK, 33 from Jamaica) that participating families uploaded to an online platform. Three themes emerged in discussions that parents reported that they had with their child: comments with a conceptual focus, comments with a conceptual and mathematical/numerical focus, comments with a conceptual and social purpose focus. The findings provide insights into the wide-ranging opportunities for learning that arise when parents are prompted and supported to recognise and use numerals in the everyday environment, as a learning resource.

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