CWF in Blog: Challenging Weekends in Family Around Mathematics

Abstract

Family and school should provide children with necessarily different, but connected, learning environments. The effective relationship between these educational instances promotes school success and the quality of this relationship is particularly important when referring to mathematics. This school content is often “unloved” and the conception that “if parents didn’t like mathematics, then it is natural that children will not like it” is still alive and accepted. To try to break this cycle it is important that school and family join forces to motivate pupils to learn mathematics and develop their mathematical creativity.

Keywords

• family-school partnership
• homework
• mathematical challenges
• creativity