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The National Numeracy Strategy began as the National Numeracy Project in 1996, led by a Numeracy Task Force in the United Kingdom.
It set about addressing perceived weaknesses in the teaching of mathematics, particularly at primary school. In particular, it focussed on skills of calculation and computation.
In 1997, the project began to produce plans for a framework for the teaching of mathematics in primary schools, leading to the non-statutory introduction of the numeracy hour in all schools in 1998. The strategy included a clear term-by-term outline of expected teaching in mathematics for all pupils from Reception to Year 6.
The perceived success of the strategy, alongside the National Literacy Strategy led to the introduction of the Key Stage 3 strategy for Secondary Schools, including a similar framework for teaching mathematics in Years 7, 8 and 9.
In 2003, the strategy, including the framework for teaching, was absorbed into the broader Primary National Strategy. The framework for teaching was updated in 2006.
Background
John Major / Back to Basics (campaign) / Back to basics (education) / Chris Woodhead (BERA 2000, p. 7)
but: Standard Written Methods eg : [1]
Standard written methods are reliable and
efficient procedures for calculating which, once mastered, can be used in many different contexts. But they are of no use to someone who applies them inaccurately
and who cannot judge whether the answer is reasonable.’
For each operation the progression towards a standard written method is crucial, since it is based on steps which are done mentally and which need to be secured first. Most countries, and in particular those which are most successful at teaching number, avoid the premature teaching of standard written
methods in order not to close down the development of mental calculation strategies. (Ridgeway Primary School)
from KS3 Guide to Framework [2], 2001
cf Written Calculations Policy: Ridgeway School, Wheatfields School Meopham Primary
a.k.a. vertical written methods
- Surveys and books
- Rosemary Webb (2006), Changing Teaching and Learning in the Primary School [3]
- Origins
Dec 1991 "Three wise men" report. Curriculum Organisation and Classroom Practice in Primary Schools
- Proposed curriculum overhaul for 2011 (Rose report) -- abandoned
- To be pruning, not root-and-branch change [4] TES 8.10.2008
- Rose report Commons debate [5] TES 13.2.2009
- "Bullet points" (BBC) [6] 1.5.2009, Comment (BBC) [7] 2.5.2009
- No central training [8] TES 12.2.2010
- Rose review scrapped [11] TES 11.6.2010
- Cambridge review
- Trailer [12] TES 9.10.09
- Ending of National Strategies
- "could face shake-up"? [13] TES 20.3.2009
- Scrapped. Guardian BBC Times Telegraph D. Mail Teaching Times 25, 26, 27.6.2009
- Comment / retrospective [14] TES 3.7.2009
- Won't be missed (letter) [15] TES 3.7.2009 / Strategies fan (ICT) [16] TES 17.7.2009
- Ofsted report [17] TES 26.2.2010 Release Report Guardian BBC Telegraph
- Ed Balls retrospective [18] TES 7.5.2010
- Good or bad thing? [19] TES 4.6.2010
- Mentions of earlier Ofsted reports [20]
- CfBT perspective (originators and managers, to 2004) [22]
- 2006 tweaks
Anita Straker response [23] TES 9.6.2006 A counter-letter [24] TES 23.6.2006
- 2003 KCL review
Anita Straker response [25] TES 16.5.2003
- International
California back to basics [26] 1997
- Evaluation
- Research for Cambridge Primary Review project.
... crit of SATs as a measure [33]
Tymms (2004) Are standards rising in English primary schools? (JSTOR)
- Statistics Commission assessment [34]
- UK Parl Select Committee report [35]
- follow-up briefing for the Sunday Times (2005) [36]
Colin Richards (2005) assessment [37] ATL (union)
- Directions
- Requirements to follow Natl Curriculum syllabuses for other subjects dumped [38] TES 16.1.1998
Eng / Math 50% of curriculum time. Siloed. "two tier curriculum". Moves back towards broader integration?
- Book chapter on curriculum balance [39]
- Primary National Strategy. Foucaultian analysis 2006 - any more freedom? [40]
See also
- National Curriculum (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
- Key Stage
- Chunking (division)
- Grid method multiplication
- Number bond
External links
- Government Primary Frameworks website (Archived, via the National Archives)
Further reading
- Department for Education and Employment (January 1998), Numeracy matters: the preliminary report of the Numeracy Task Force, London: DfEE
- Department for Education and Employment (1998), The implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy: The final report of the Numeracy Task Force, London: DfEE
- Department for Education and Employment (1999), The National Numeracy Strategy: framework for teaching mathematics from reception to Year 6, London: DfEE. ISBN 0855229225 -- browse (via Dudley Council); browse (via CountOn.org); download (via Norfolk County Council).
- Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (1999), Standards in mathematics: exemplification of key learning objectives from reception to year 6
- Dudley documents cache [41]
- Gary Eason, Back to school for parents, BBC News, 13 February 2000
- Rob Eastaway, Why parents can't do maths today, BBC News, 10 September 2010
- Mary Ruddle, How maths teaching has changed - the new order of learning, mad4maths website, 2007
- Anita Straker and Tim Coulson, Carry on up the maths ladder, Times Educational Supplement, 17 December 2004
- 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.
- Chris Kyriacou and Maria Goulding (2004), A systematic review of the impact of the Daily Mathematics Lesson in enhancing pupil confidence and competence in early mathematics, Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI), Institute of Education, London.
- Mike Askew and Margaret Brown (eds) Teaching and Learning Primary Numeracy: Policy, Practice and Effectiveness, BERA, 2000