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Research School Network: Using picture books to promote high-quality learning in maths Professor Herb Ginsburg explores the research behind using picture books to promote high-quality learning in EYFS maths
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Using picture books to promote high-quality learning in maths
Professor Herb Ginsburg explores the research behind using picture books to promote high-quality learning in EYFS maths
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In this webinar, Professor Herb Ginsburg discusses how we can help children to learn maths creatively and enjoyably with carefully-selected picture books.
He explores the research behind the approach and considers how we might engage parents and carers in supporting their children’s early learning.
Professor Ginsburg has supported our work at East London Research School in this area. You can read more about our thinking in this short blog by Fliss James.
- Download Professor Ginsburg’s PowerPoint [PDF]
- Download a list of the books referenced in the webinar, together with a note on availability in the UK
- Find out more about the DREME Project (Development and Research in Early Math Education)
- Read Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1 from the Education Endowment Foundation
If you’re interested in the tech behind those videos of mom and Danny, researcher Dr Colleen Uscianowski comments:
“I do like those videos and I was pleasantly surprised at how well most of the videos turned out, considering that they were recorded remotely. Recording them was very easy and involved just 2 tools: Qualtrics and Zoom. I created a Qualtrics survey and uploaded PDFs of the storybooks into Qualtrics. Then I met with each parent-child dyad on Zoom and shared a link to the Qualtrics survey. I recorded the Zoom screen as the parent and child opened the PDFs on their computer screen and read directly off their screen.”
Colleen is Assistant Professor at the School of Education at the University of Cincinnati
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