Exploring Parents’ Cultural Models of Mathematical Knowledge in Multiethnic Primary Schools
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Abstract
One of the key obstacles in the relationship between home and school numeracy practices is that often they are conceptualised by the school as being the same practice. There is an assumption that parents will interpret and give the same meaning to the mathematics embedded in a practice as the child's teacher and school. It is not uncommon, that schools and teachers have expectations about specific ways parents can use everyday practices to engage their children with school-like mathematics. Empirical studies, mostly conducted in non-Western cultures, have shown that different ways of dealing with mathematical practices in and outside school are deeply related with the historical, cultural and social context of these practices. However, the dynamics of these relationships in culturally diverse societies have yet to be fully investigated. Taking a cultural-developmental psychology approach in this chapter we draw on parents' interviews conducted as part of studies aimed at understanding the mediating role of parents in their child's mathematics learning in multicultural schools in England. In these studies we examine how parents represent and orchestrate practices in supporting their child's numeracy learning. We take into account both the parents 'unique' cultural heritage (e.g. Pakistani, English, etc.) and the parents 'shared' socio-cultural experiences resulting from having a child in a school in England. We are interested in exploring and conceptualising how parents' understandings are constructed in light of their interactions with the child's school learning. Perspectives of the parents are triangulated with those of their children and teachers.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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