Chapter 10: Scaling Up the Everyday Maths Workshops

Scaling up the products of research is a major challenge in any area of education. On top of this, developing effective parental engagement interventions for mathematics learning presents particular challenges.

Huat See and Gorard (2015) have shown that many parental involvement and engagement interventions fail to show positive effects on learning. In fact, a good proportion of the higher quality evaluations that were included in their review showed negative effects. Having worked in this area for a number of years now, we believe there are three main reasons why interventions often don't work in the way they are intended to work.