Sentence examples for numeracy from inspiring English sources

Langton said the lack of numeracy and literacy among Indigenous people is "a tragedy that grows year by year.

I learned about analysing problems, decision-making, how to construct and present information, and improved my numeracy and literacy in IT.

In just five years, he ushered in Sure Start, literacy and numeracy hours, called out the poorest secondary schools, and set about widening university access from what had been a despicably low base.

The left side deals with reading, writing, numeracy and language.

But, they are wrong (or probably wrong) both about the future and about the need for coding to become a basic skill alongside literacy and numeracy.

Meanwhile, pre-school learning is also under the spotlight as a study reveals that children's early language and numeracy has improved little despite initiatives, such as Sure Start, aimed at boosting pre-school educational achievement.

Secondly, the report recommends that primary maths programmes should move away from the focus on numeracy and instead look at developing a stronger mathematical foundation by exploring ideas and concepts.

In the absence of being able to accurately predict which skills will be in demand in the future workforce, surely it makes more sense to build broad generalist skills of numeracy and literacy in the early years, rather than concentrate on the narrower skill of coding.

In education, that includes issues such as failing schools, poor teaching quality, lack of specialist support for students with a disability, the increasing shift away from comprehensive publicly funded schools to private education, poor international rankings in literacy and numeracy, and countless other real, and very difficult issues, that confront Australia's education system.

I am especially proud to have had stewardship of the most significant education reforms we have witnessed in Australia, like the national curriculum, first national teaching standards and much needed investment for literacy and numeracy and indigenous education.

Among those in school many drop out prematurely or fail to achieve basic literacy and numeracy.