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Maulfry Worthington and
Elizabeth Carruthers are
Founders of the international Children’s Mathematics
Network, established in 2003. They have both taught in
the full 3 – 8 year age range for over 26 years and have
carried out extensive research in key aspects of early
mathematics, with a particular focus on the development and
pedagogy of children’s early written mathematics (children's
mathematical graphics). They are winners of several national
awards for their work with children and teachers on
children's mathematical graphics.
The Children's Mathematics
Network explores the independent
research
we have conducted for more than two decades - into young
children’s developing understanding of mathematical
notations - through their own graphical marks, symbols and
representations: we term these children's mathematical
graphics.
Our work is
independently acknowledged and our book
Children’s Mathematics: Making
Marks, Making Meaning is used as a key text in the
field of early years mathematics education and courses in
symbolic representation including literacy. |
