EJ618579
PS531106
Title: Fostering Parental Support for Children's Mathematical
Development: An Intervention with Head Start Families.Author(s): Starkey, Prentice; Klein, Alice
Source: Early Education and Development, v11 n5 p659-80 Oct 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Notes: Special Issue: "Families and Early Childhood Education."
ISSN: 1040-9289
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUN2001
Examined the impact of a bi-generational mathematics intervention with Head Start
families in two studies. Found that intervention children developed more extensive
mathematical knowledge than a comparison group of low-income children. Low-income
parents were willing and able to support the children's mathematical development
once trained to do so, which
enhanced the children's informal mathematical
knowledge. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education;
Family (Sociological Unit); Intervention; Knowledge Level; Learning Readiness;
Low Income Groups; *Mathematics Skills; *Parent articipation;
*Parents; Parents
as Teachers; School Readiness; *Young Children
Identifiers: *Intergenerational
Learning; Project Head Start
