All Australian children would be tested for numeracy knowledge in the first two years of school under a plan to halt underachievement in maths.
“Many children who perform poorly in maths in the first few years at school go on to suffer a failure cycle that is very difficult for schools to reverse,” she said. She said early maths screening should be carried out twice yearly and focus on robust models of “number sense”, which encompasses numbers ; number relations ; and number operations .
“It is estimated that around one in five adults do not have the numeracy levels required to successfully complete daily tasks such as reading a petrol gauge or managing a household budget.” “It’s time to start getting some of these reliable tools into the hands of teachers so they can actually be intervening and offering the support that children need as early as possible.”
Dr Katherin Cartwright, Mathematical Association of NSW president and a former primary school teacher, agreed there needed to be a greater focus on early intervention.
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