Conversations around 'How do you educate / inform parents on current math practices?'

Shared conversations about our ideas and experiences.

• Share, Share, Share - digital, oral, visual
• share progressions of math pathways so they can see progress as well as next steps. 
• invite them in
• Students online reflections allowing for comments
• Ensuring children have language to articulate to parents
• invite questions
• empowering student led conferences that demo the learning
• blogs connected to email and mobile phones
• Photographic journal
• shared goals that are understand by all
• ixl
• Coffee Mornings
• Information evenings / learning conferences
• Newsletters
• Classroom displays that are interactive, up to date and invite dialogue
• Important to have a consistent message with parents
• bilingual explanations available if necessary
• Ministry Information sheets / videos and sites
• open door policy
• students become the experts to run workshops
• Maths games sessions to with picnic lunch
• Educreations app used to record lesson or students make a lesson to share on blog
• Math language explained
• Parent education site with information for them to access at own leisure
• Send home 1 piece of equipment for student to ask questions about how it could be used to help them achieve their math goals. ie; number line - How many ways can you use a number line?