Resources for adults
Join The Big Number Natter! Talking about maths makes it a little less scary. However you feel, you're not alone. Check out our tips and real-life number natters below.
This year's National Numeracy Day is focused on money, and improving our money management starts with having the confidence to look at the numbers. Use the resources on this page to start building your number confidence.
Feel better about numbers and money
In these videos we hear how our feelings about maths can make us avoid engaging with our finances, but also how confidence with numbers can be our ticket out of financial stress.
Watch: Everyday Money Hacks LIVE
On National Numeracy Day 21 May at 12.30pm Nudge financial education will be hosting a live session featuring simple and effective money hacks to help you with daily money management. It lasts 1 hour and you can watch it right here or watch on YouTube.
Nudge have also done guest blogs for us:
How neurodiversity can affect financial wellbeing
Tips on talking to your children about money
We work with Nudge in partnership with Experian to bring you free financial education tailored to your circumstances. You can get access via the National Numeracy Challenge and find out more here.
Grab your free Number Natter resources
Feeling worried or anxious about a subject - whether it's maths or money - means we often avoid talking about it, but that's often not very helpful to us in the long run.
If you know someone who feels nervous about numbers, or you're anxious about maths yourself, try using the resources below.
Talking points
Tips for talking to adults about maths
Confidence building resources
If you're not feeling quite ready to 'natter about numbers', we've got some additional tips and resources that you can use in your own time to build your number confidence.
Check them out and share them with anyone who you think might find them useful.
6 Tips For Overcoming Maths Anxiety
5 tips for getting confident with maths at work
Mr MoneyJar's 6 Tips For Money Management
Iona Bain's Tips for Feeling Better About Numbers with Dyscalculia
5 Day Habit Tracker
Rachel Riley's Number Confidence tips for parents
Resources from our expert Partners
As this year is the Money Edition of National Numeracy Day, we're partnering up.
We know that numbers aren't the only thing you need to manage your money, so by working together with experts on more free resources, we hope this National Numeracy Day can be the most useful yet.
Watch these Number Natters
- ADHD - Ishraq Li-Rahman and Roné Scheepers from National Numeracy talk about how ADHD affects their relationships with numbers.
- SEND - Performing Arts students from Derwen College, a specialist college for young adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), talk about how maths fits into their vocational work and life.
Real life stories
However you feel about maths and numbers, you're not alone. Read the stories and experiences of people we work with.
Can you see yourself in some of these stories? People of different ages and backgrounds have overcome their anxieties about numbers and maths. You can too! Take a look...
What is the Big Number Natter?
The Big Number Natter is a nationwide conversation about numbers for National Numeracy Day. From famous faces to the man on the No73 bus...everyone can join in, just like our team at National Numeracy did.
Find out more about The Big Number Natter and why you should get involved
If you do one thing, do this...
However you feel about maths, you’re not alone. The National Numeracy Challenge is a free and easy-to-use website you can use to improve your confidence with numbers, in your own time and at your own pace.
It’s ideal for brushing up, checking your level, or for catching up on learning you missed, and it’s all about the maths you need in daily life and at work – no algebra or trigonometry.
