Each activity description is a wiki-page, editable by study members, with individual comment capabilities. The study uses open source software, such as Joomla CMS and Google Groups. It is a combination of a wiki and a blog.  

We have finished a pilot of the study, followed it up with software development, and are now ready to start the next stage.

 From the "Family Study Manifesto":

1. The Family Study community supports each participant family in creating their own beautiful, meanigful, useful and fun mathematics.
2. Families can choose or create their own activities.
3. Families can adapt any activity to their own levels, styles and interests. Activities are designed to be easily adaptable to different levels and styles.
4. Activities are designed to support multiple representations of mathematics: text, graphs, formulas, pictures, stories, tables, manipulatives, gestures, and so on.
5. Every member of every family has "executive powers" within activities: plan and decide what to do next, create ideas and examples, pose problems, ask questions and so on.
6. Study history is freely available on the Web to help future participants. That includes questions and answers, activity descriptions, family stories, and recommendations.
7. Family Study is an exploration of a math planet. The "planet" metaphor includes settling the frontier and adding new territories to the map, continuous development of established "villages," and multiple paths.

Who: Families, educators, math affectionados

What: Develop tools for making mass-scaled learning individually adaptable through tracing past human actions. Make math your own, to make your own math.

When: The pilot of the study started at the end of 2008. We just finished implementing the pilot's data as sofware updates. The next interactive stage is starting in April 2009.  

Where: Natural Math site; Google Groups; Research Triangle, NC local math meetings

Why: Because there is a dire need to help people gain mathematical power and freedom.