Jobs at Maths with Parents

Maths with Parents is an award-winning social enterprise that supports maths at home. We help parents and children to love learning maths together. Having evidenced that our project improves outcomes across 50 schools we are now growing rapidly to support over 10,000 parents in over 100 schools. Half of children from the poorest backgrounds do not reach the expected standard in maths at the end of primary school. Half. These children go on to underachieve at GCSE and are more likely to be unemployed as adults. Primary schools have made great steps forward in maths teaching in recent years, so why are the poorest children still underachieving? The answer lies outside the school gates: in low-income households parental engagement occurs less frequently, is less targeted and overall is less effective than in higher income households (Kalil, 2014). Children often tell us how much they enjoy maths at school, but many of these same kids go home and are told “I’ve always been rubbish at maths, so you will be too” by their parents. Maths homework is a miserable chore in too many households, supported by parents who were never taught the new methods that their child learns.