@inbook{2d183fd039fc42bab1e132f6c50edb85,
title = "Case Study 3 - Researching the unknown: Developing an understanding of children{\textquoteright}s informal mathematical activity",
abstract = "Over the course of a two-year project, we set out to investigate the mathematics in children{\textquoteright}s everyday lives. We recognised the fact that this was a challenging project, and that gaining access to children{\textquoteright}s personal lives would take time and some careful research design. A particular challenge centred on the difficulty of ensuring that our participants shared our understanding of {\textquoteleft}mathematics in everyday life{\textquoteright} and were happy and confident in sharing examples with us. In this chapter, we describe the way that we gradually increased the depth of our understanding of children{\textquoteright}s experience of mathematics outside of school through a series of studies with groups of primary school children. A structured diary study, and parental survey, allowed us to start a conversation with our participants about the kinds of activities we were interested in. A photo elicitation study then encouraged participants to cross the home-school boundary and share representations of their lives outside of school. These studies enabled us to develop enough of a shared language to carry out small group interviews with children and explore the mathematical thinking and learning in their out-of-school lives. ",
keywords = "mathematics, diary study, photo elicitation, economics, economic activity, mixed methods",
author = "Tim Jay and Jo Rose",
note = "Edited by Rose, J., Jay, T., Goodall, J., Mazzoli Smith, L. and Todd, L. ",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
day = "21",
language = "English",
series = "Emerald Studies in Out-of-School Learning",
publisher = "Emerald",
editor = "Jo Rose and Tim Jay and Janet Goodall and \{Mazzoli Smith\}, Laura and Liz Todd",
booktitle = "Repositioning Out-of-School Learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school",
address = "United Kingdom",
}