Numeracy+Continuum

The Auditor General’s review on literacy and numeracy (October, 2008) valued the good work of the Best Start continuums in both literacy and numeracy and recommended that they be expanded to inform assessment. The recommendation was accepted by the Education Minister and the Numeracy Continuum was developed as a result of this recommendation.

The Numeracy Continuum uses the //Learning Framework in Number // from the //Count Me In Too // program which draws on a range of theories from research projects relating to the formation of number concepts. It provides viewpoints for observing young students' strategies in number and documenting their number knowledge.

NOTE: The aspects on the Numeracy Continuum should not be regarded as distinct from one another, nor absolutely sequential. Rather they are overlapping and interrelated.