Numeracy involves using mathematical ideas effectively to participate in daily life and make sense of the world. It incorporates the use of numerical, spatial, graphical, statistical and algebraic concepts and skills in a variety of contexts and involves the critical evaluation, interpretation, application and communication of mathematical information in a range of practical situations.

Numeracy is incorporated in the NSW Syllabuses for the Australian curriculum as a general capability alongside other key learning areas across the curriculum areas.

A series of evidence-based resources are available to support teachers to effectively teach numeracy in the classroom, including:

• teaching strategies
• exploring patterns
• multiplicative strategies
• numeracy investigations
• talk moves
• understanding units of measurement
• a set of flexible additive strategies resources looking at:
  • combinations to 10
  • 2 digit and 3 digit numbers and
    
  • decimals
    
• a set of number knowledge resources looking at:
  • connecting number names
  • building part-part-whole and more than, less than, equivalent in value to relationships
  • benchmarks of 5 and 10
  • comparing, ordering, sequencing and estimating and
  • building place value
• flexible multiplicative strategy resources looking at:
  • strategies for sharing and forming groups.
  • single digit, multi digit and rational numbers