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One mother’s engagement in her daughter’s self-initiated mathematical activity at home: A case study

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Presenter/Guest Speaker: Sukhwinder Kaur Masters Student, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, UBC
Date: June 8th, 2022
Host: Dr Cynthia Nicol

Sukhwinder presented her capstone project titled “One mother’s engagement in her daughter’s self-initiated mathematical activity at home: A case study” which is a two-part study on how children interact with mathematics in an informal setting like the home and what role parents play in that interaction. Sukhwinder takes on two roles in this study, a mother, and a researcher.

In the first part of the study, Sukhwinder observed and recorded her daughter’s self-initiated math-related tasks. She presented some observations of her daughter’s activities and the analysis of the mathematical content in those activities. For the second part, her focus moves from the child to the mother. Sukhwinder will be reanalysing the data to focus on herself as a mother, researcher, and mathematics educator. She will analyse how her beliefs could have influenced the way she engaged with her daughter and how her input could have changed her daughter’s activities.

Below are a few slides from the presentation

Find the complete presentation here.

Chinese Immigrant Parent and the BC Math School System

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Presenter/Guest Speaker: Qiaochu (Joy) Xu, UBC Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy Masters Student
Date: March 10th, 2022
Host: Dr Cynthia Nicol

How Chinese Immigrant Parents’ Expectations and Aspirations for their Children’s Math Learning Interact with British Columbia’s School Systems and Curricula

In this SyMETRI session, Qiaochu (Joy) presented her M.Ed. Capstone project about the Chinese immigrant parents’ expectations and aspirations for their children’s math learning interacting with British Columbia’s School Systems and Curricula. She shared the voices from the Chinese immigrant community, exploring what they feel is working well and what seems to be lacking, and where they place their children in the two education and value systems of China and Canada. Chinese parents in this study have a relatively high level of engagement in their children’s math education, devoting themselves to helping their children succeed inside and outside the school domain.

The Chinese parents in this study suggested that their children would benefit from faster-paced math classes and increased challenge to the current level. The four families that participated in this study hope to learn better ways for understanding the curriculum and to find effective ways to communicate with their child’s math teacher.

During the presentation, other issues faced by immigrant parents were also raised. Some of these were lacking language proficiency to provide homework support and peer pressure from members of their Chinese immigrant community and the broader Canadian community.

This interactive presentation offered an opportunity for participating educators to share their thoughts and experiences when working with students from immigrant families.

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