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A Fox Box is a numeracy resource to use with parents, grandparents, guardians and/or carers (in future referred to as "parents") to overcome the fear, apprehension and failure associated with mathematics. The aim is to demonstrate to "parents" that practical methods of working with mathematics can be enjoyable and none threatening and at the same time break the cycle of underachievement, fear and failure in mathematics. The two designers and authors of the Fox Box concept, Janet Tarn and Susan Fox, have many years experience in primary education both as head teachers and practitioners. They also have experience in working with adults in the "Skills for Life" programme and as a mathematics lecturer at St. Martin's College, Education Department, Lancaster, training teachers and teaching assistants in the teaching of numeracy. The designers and authors of the Fox Box have identified a lack of an holistic approach to numeracy and mathematics and have devised a practical method of introducing skills and concepts in mathematics to parents and children. |
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