Numeracy

More than 900 Literacy and Numeracy competition entries were completed by students around Australia in Term 4 2023 and Term 1 2024.

Australian teenagers with higher levels of curiosity than others performed better in mathematics in the world’s largest assessment of 15-year-old students, a new report has shown.  

Teenagers in every Australian state and territory experienced disruptive maths classrooms and bullying at greater levels than the OECD average, a new report on student experiences shows.

Two Australian school teams will represent Australia in this year’s International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C), thanks to their approach to finding a solution for the post-pandemic trend of abandoning pets. 

Strategies to promote mathematics are central to a new toolkit which could be a gamechanger in schools, and for the wider community.

New tool enables countries to report the proportion of children and young people reaching the global minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics.