Interesting research about "number talk" at home. Conscientious parents read stories to their children but talking to kids about numbers, fractions, and decimals, not so much. If parents do talk numbers to their children, it's mostly to sons, not daughters. Now, we understand that many of our Title I families do neither and our students tend to come to school with language deficits as well as deficits in number understandings. The study by Susan Levine published in Developmental Science 9.11 is cited in the article. She lists 4 areas of number talk that parents can use with their children at home. Excellent ideas......let's expand this list and try again to get parents engaged. What do you think? What ideas do you have?
Why It's Important to Talk Math With Kids. Annie Murphy Paul. 3.2.12. Mindshift
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/why-its-important-to-talk-math-with-kids/
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