Sentence examples for numeracy for from inspiring English sources

Plans to ratchet up the minimum targets in literacy and numeracy for primary schools are being considered by ministers.

The aim is to halve the gap in reading, writing and numeracy for Indigenous children by 2018 which is not on track.

"It needs to be a relationship-based approach before you do anything else – forget about bloody literacy and numeracy for a moment," he said.

For GCSE, she supports the idea of a "functional maths" syllabus, now under trial, to teach basic numeracy for everyday life.

The survey showed an even weaker performance from the US, which ranked bottom for numeracy for 16 to 24-year-olds, and in the lower half of the tables overall, below England and Northern Ireland.

On little progress being made on Closing the Gap in reading, writing and numeracy for Indigenous children: We may be doomed to fail – I fear – until we achieve the most basic target of all: the expectation that every child will attend school every day.

There was a much greater variation in the person intercept (individual disengagement) for literacy and numeracy than for problem solving, while the pattern was reversed for the variance in the item intercepts (item difficulty regarding disengagement).

The MPs welcomed ministers' plans for tougher literacy and numeracy tests for teacher training candidates but said this should not be at the expense of good personal skills.

Women, participants with a university degree, and those who visited a dentist at least once a year had significantly (p < 0.05) higher mean scores for each section (reading comprehension, numeracy) and for total R-OHLI compared to their counterparts.

And when the UK government decided to introduce a new literacy and numeracy framework for teaching 11-14 year olds in England, Wales decided it was not for them.

There are now tougher literacy and numeracy tests for trainees.