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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.
Rob Eastaway, Why parents can't do maths today, BBC News, 10 September 2010; Ian Thompson (2000), Is the National Numeracy Strategy evidence based?, Mathematics Teaching, 171, 23–27; Dylan V. Jones (2002), National numeracy initiatives in England and Wales: a comparative study of policy, The Curriculum Journal, 13 (1), 5–23.
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.
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.
In March 2015, there was also a Maths of the Day live event on BBC Radio 5 Live in which National Numeracy's Mike Ellicock and Rachel Riley talked about the importance of maths skills. It also included a feature from A Question of Sport in which team captains Phil Tufnell and Matt Dawson took part in a sport-related maths quiz with the audience ...
[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]
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.
There were, however, other early and more reliable studies on number sense in animals. A prominent example is the work of Otto Koehler, who conducted a number of studies on number sense in animals between 1920s and 1970s. [4] In one of his studies [5] he showed that a raven named Jacob could reliably distinguish the number 5 across different ...