The Mathematical Journey
An overview of the key elements in the journey that everyone needs to take from early number understanding to a level of numeracy that is right for you…
GETTING OUR MESSAGES OUT
Communicating the importance of numeracy skills is a key task for National Numeracy.
We aim to spark a new debate about numeracy and society’s attitude to maths and drive home the message that numeracy is vital for everyone.
How will we do it?
- Work with organisations and individuals that have the ability to influence public opinion.
- Seek to ensure via the media that there is a wide understanding of why numeracy is important, how it has been neglected and the serious impact of this neglect and how it is possible to remedy the situation.
- Raise awareness of our aims and our work among the education and academic sectors, business and the workplace, and among other relevant charities and campaigning organisations.
- Lobby and work with ministers, politicians and officials to ensure that money is spent effectively on raising numeracy levels.
- Criticise government policies or actions that we regard as counter-productive or inadequate.
- Draw attention to anyone in the public eye who dismisses maths as unimportant or parades an “I can’t do maths” attitude.
- Aim to show that a negative attitude to maths – even among otherwise high achievers – is part of the same culture that allows millions of people to struggle with very low numeracy skills. Our message is that this culture must and can change.
You may be interested in this…
What the research says
Some of the headlines from recent research into numeracy