NAEP Underscores Urgent Push For Early Math Literacy
The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, released yesterday by the National Center for Education Statistics, highlight a continued trend of concerning achievement gaps in math proficiency. With fewer than half of U.S. 4th and 8th graders meeting proficiency standards, the report reveals widening disparities in math performance between low- and high-performing students. The findings underscore a critical need to prioritize early math education and strengthen family engagement in fostering math literacy.
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The Year in Numbers – A Letter from Center for Family Math’s Director, Holly Kreider
Looking back, 2024 was a banner year for the Center for Family Math, in great part due to our amazing team, partners, and allies helping to build a Family Math movement. So let’s celebrate our collective successes “by the numbers” as math enthusiasts are wont to do! Together, we expanded and deepened practice, with: 22 […]
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Family Math as an Antidote to Math Anxiety
Author: Jennifer McCray Edited by Jeff Snyder and Holly Kreider Like many other nations, the United States has a problematic relationship with mathematics. Math is often the butt of jokes, as in “I hate this so much I’d rather be doing math,” and the New York Times describes Sudoku as a “numbers game, minus the […]
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Centering Families in the Curation of Online Resources
Authors: Holly Kreider & Jennifer McCray At NAFSCE’s Center for Family Math (the Center), we aim to instill a love of math in students through the love of their families. As one step toward this goal, we see our familymath.org website as an opportunity to amass high-quality practice resources from across the field that help […]
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Exploring Family Math: Harvard Grad Students’ Journey to Strengthen Family Engagement
Follow the Family Math learning journey of a team of graduate students from Harvard Graduate School of Education. In collaboration with NAFSCE’s Center for Family Math, and as part of their student project for Dr. Karen Mapp’s family engagement course, they reviewed literature and interviewed colleagues to explore Family Math strategies and challenges and to identify […]
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Integration of Family Math into SFEC Programs
Authors: Susan Shaffer, President, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, Inc. In my first blog post, Making the Case: Why SFECs Should Integrate Family Math into their Programming, I outlined the rationale for WHY Statewide Family Engagement Centers (SFECs) should weave math into their family engagement efforts. Now I delve into the practical aspects of HOW. To answer […]
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Designing with Families: A Look at Family Engagement Lab’s Co-Design Process
In her blog, Dr. Elisabeth O’Bryon, chief impact officer and co-founder of Family Engagement Lab, explores how co-design with families and teachers has shaped the nonprofit’s programs. Highlighting FASTalk, she explains how this collaborative approach led to a tool that supports student learning at home through regular, accessible communication in families’ home languages, while also easing teachers’ workloads. This emphasizes the value of deep listening and partnership in creating effective educational resources.
Continue ReadingMaking the Case: Why SFECs Should integrate Family Math into their Programming
Authors: Susan Shaffer, President, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, Inc. In the education landscape, family engagement is a crucial partnership that holds immense potential for shaping a child’s academic journey and success. Research consistently shows that when families are actively engaged in their children’s learning, students achieve higher grades, have better attendance, and develop more positive attitudes […]
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Inclusive Inquiry: Centering Families in Family Math Research
The fight for equitable education stands as a cornerstone of our collective journey towards a more just society. At the center of this struggle are parent leaders.
Continue Reading5 Activities from Parent Leaders to Promote Family Math
Author: Maggie Caspe, Zully Rodriguez, DéJon Banks, Sara Morrison The fight for equitable education stands as a cornerstone of our collective journey towards a more just society. At the center of this struggle are parent leaders who advocate for the rights of their own and their community’s children’s educational needs, collaborate with educators and school […]
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