The National Numeracy Strategy was effectively launched in April 1998, eighteen months after the start of the Hamilton Maths Project. Professor Ruth Merttens, the educational director of HMP, also worked closely with the NNS team, writing and designing the national strategy. As a result both projects have, from their inception, shared aims, content and certain key beliefs about how children learn maths. We think they have a brilliant website that contains medium and short term planning for every day from Y1 to Y6 for Numeracy and Literacy. http://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/
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	The Numeracy strategy stresses the need for children to develop sound mental calculation strategies and the approach that the framework takes to recording is based on making a smooth transition from these to standard written methods.  For a sample policy Click here

Set your pupils the Puzzle of the Week

You can access the "Birmingham Numeracy" web pages with a new, shorter URL; simply type in
www.bgfl.org/numeracy
 

For National Numeracy news see Numeracysoftware.com 

Tran Towers, a mathematical quest, has now been written especially for this web site. Click here to try it. (Your browser should support Flash 4)