Introduction

The subject at the heart of this book is that of parental involvement in maths. The IMPACT Project is the largest such initiative in Europe and through IMPACT many thousands of children and parents share regular maths activities together, the results of which are brought back into class to inform the following week’s work. The project was started in north London in 1985 and it has since expanded to include the thirty-four Local Education Authorities who are, at the time of writing, members of the IMPACT National Network. There are IMPACT schools across England, Wales, and Scotland, as well as a smattering in other countries, including the USA. It is literally impossible to keep up with the spread of this way of working collaboratively with parents.