Documents
Mark making matters, DCSF, 2008 The "Williams Review', Children Thinking Mathematically,
DCSF, 2008 DCSF, 2009
Government and independent reports and reviews that feature Children’s Mathematical Graphics
Researching effective CPD in Early Years: Policy Advice Getting it right in the Early
mathematics education, and Future Research Agendas. Years Foundation Stage,
NCETM, 2009 BERA/TACTYC, 2017 Early Education, 2019
Education Alliance:
Closing the attainment gap
in mathematics
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Our sustained programme of research and development has been conducted over more than 30 years, influencing perspectives of young children's capacity to use and understand graphical languages, and to use their Mathematical Graphics to communicate their mathematical thinking. In some local authorities and settings and in many universities it has stimulated interest in young children's own mathematics, and in Children's Mathematical Graphics, with interest from England and internationally especially notable.
This has aroused some considerable interest and debate, challenging conventional wisdom about children's learning and strengths in early childhood. In England this has resulted in support for our work in a number of governmental and independent reviews and reports, including Children Thinking Mathematically, (DCSF, 2009) which we were commissioned by the government to write.