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The National Numeracy Network (NNN) is a multidisciplinary US-based organization that promotes numeracy, i.e., the ability to reason and to apply simple numerical concepts. [1] The organization sponsors an annual conference and its website provides a repository of resources for teaching numeracy.
The then-existing National Numeracy Strategy and National Literacy Strategy were taken under the umbrella of the Primary National Strategy. [ 1 ] In September 2006, the frameworks for teaching literacy and mathematics were "renewed" and issued in electronic form as the Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics .
The National Numeracy Strategy was designed to facilitate a sound grounding in maths for all primary school pupils. It arose out of the National Numeracy Project in 1996, led by a Numeracy Task Force in England, and was launched in 1998 and implemented in schools in 1999.
The concept of health numeracy is a component of the concept of health literacy. Health numeracy and health literacy can be thought of as the combination of skills needed for understanding risk and making good choices in health-related behavior. Health numeracy requires basic numeracy but also more advanced analytical and statistical skills.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, was an American, multi-state educational initiative begun in 2010 with the goal of increasing consistency across state standards, or what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences is a 1988 book by mathematician John Allen Paulos about innumeracy (deficiency of numeracy) as the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy: incompetence with numbers rather than words. Innumeracy is a problem with many otherwise educated and knowledgeable people.
[9] [10] Estimates of the prevalence of dyscalculia range between 3 and 6% of the population. [9] [10] In 2015 it was established that 11% of children with dyscalculia also have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). [11] Dyscalculia has also been associated with Turner syndrome [12] and people who have spina bifida. [13]
A 2010 report commissioned by Lord Moser from New Philanthropy Capital recommended the creation of a national numeracy trust. [6] The report, which focused on low levels of numeracy in the UK, showed how charities and funders can help people to be confidently numerate. [7] These problems are a focus of National Numeracy's strategy.