Table 2.

Home Mathematics Environment Virtual Conference Topics, Keynotes, and Example Discussion Questions

Session and Breakout	Main Topic and Keynote Title	Examples Questions from Breakout Groups
Session 1, Breakout 1	Home Learning Environment Overview Critical Examination of Family Engagement: Pathway to Excellence for Black Children?	• What are the current gaps in our understanding of the HME? • What are key future directions for the field?
Session 1, Breakout 2	What We Know About the HME The Home Math Environment and Math Achievement: A Meta Analysis	• Why are the relations between the HME and children’s outcomes so small? • How can we improve measurement?
Session 2, Breakout 1	Child, Family and Community Factors Associated with the HME Thinking Outside the Box: Assessing Math in Ethnically Diverse Families	• What is/what do we expect to be qualitatively/quantitatively different about the HME across developmental time points? • How might the HME look different among families of different socioeconomic backgrounds?
Session 2, Breakout 2	Country and Cultural Factors related to the HME Can We Take a Global Perspective on the HME?	• What are cultural considerations that we need to take into account when considering the HME of diverse children? • What HME activities are culturally-unique? • What HME activities are culturally-universal?
Session 3, Breakout 1	Moving Beyond Only Measuring Numeracy Content Beyond Numeracy: Examining the HME More Broadly	• What revisions or additions should be made to measuring this aspect of the HME (e.g., Numeracy, Patterning, Geometry, Spatial)? • What are some ways we can best categorize individual activities/concepts? How can we better measure the quality of these types of activities?
Session 3, Breakout 2	Measurement Beyond Caregiver-Child Activities Challenges of Measuring the Broader Home Math Environment	• What revisions or additions should be made in measurement (e.g., Caregiver Beliefs/Attitudes/Expectations, Caregiver Mathematics Anxiety, Resources)?

Note. During session 2, community factors were discussed in the second breakout session alongside cultural and country factors, but given the overlap of discussions that occurred during the event and the present consolidation of next directions, community factors are included alongside family factors. In advance of session 3, participants were sent a file of survey items measuring aspects of the HME and other characteristics of caregivers and children beyond caregiver-child activities, to review in preparation for their discussions.