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Involving Parents in Games and Picture Books

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The early years, prior to school, are a significant time period for the mathematical development of children. Parents play an important role in the early learning of their children through creating an inspiring home learning environment in everyday situations. Considering that the first mathematics learning takes place at home and at kindergarten, parents’ involvement supports the academic achievements of young children learning not only during their first years but also during the whole school time period, so parents and pre-school-teachers should work together in a trusting relationship. The KERZ project discussed in this chapter shows that opportunities for a successful cooperation between parents and kindergarten staff have positive benefits for children’s mathematics learning, at least in the short term. This project is an intervention study with a pre-post-test design investigating the impact on mathematics learning of families with young children regularly playing and reading games and books with mathematical content, like board, dice, and construction games and picture books dealing with counting, enumerating, and Piagetian pre-numerical competencies. These games and books are part of a “treasure chest” located at the kindergarten to be borrowed and used only at home.

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    For details about the ENTER project see http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5697. Link checked at 2015-11-10.

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    The EMBI provides two kinds of information for each child. Firstly a (numerical) point score between 0 and 11 that shows how many of the 11 items of first sub-test (mathematical precursor skills) have been solved correctly, secondly with respect to the second sub-test (counting) a (ordinal) growth point, that identifies his/her level of counting skills on a range between 0 and 6. These two measures are called “EMBI-values”.

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Streit-Lehmann, J. (2017). Involving Parents in Games and Picture Books. In: Phillipson, S., Gervasoni, A., Sullivan, P. (eds) Engaging Families as Children's First Mathematics Educators. Early Mathematics Learning and Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2553-2_9

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