Abstract
The idea for organizing a mother-daughter Saturday mathematics club came from readings that one of the authors did for a graduate course in elementary mathematics curriculum. As a thirdgrade teacher, Boling was startled by Boswell's (1985) claim that by third grade, children perceive mathematics to be in the male domain of the adult world. Phillips and Ebrahimi (1993) explain, “By the time students reach high school, the overwhelming majority are already mathematically scarred … they dislike mathematics” (p. 62). Heid and Jump (1993) state that women make up 51 percent of the population, 45 percent of the nation's work force, yet only 11 percent of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. They claim that “the early adolescent years of 9–13 are critical for psychological, social, and cognitive development in the fields of math and science” (p. 161).
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