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Approximately 50% of the working age population of the UK have a numeracy level that we expect of 7- 11 year old primary children.

Poor Numeracy skills costs the UK economy (i.e. the Government, employers and individuals) £20 billion

90% of new graduate jobs require a high level of digital skills which are based on numeracy

https://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/

"Good numeracy is the best protection against unemployment, low wages and poor health."

Andreas Schleicher,

OECD Director for Education and Skills

Why is Numeracy important?

https://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/

So why is Numeracy so important?

These are just some facts for you taken from the nationalnumeracy website.

If we want to equip our learners with skills for the real world, well surely Numeracy has to be an important part of this, and if we confine developing Numeracy to be just within the Maths & Numeracy AoLE, then we’re not allowing learners opportunities to make connections with their learning, to develop transferable skills. Making connections to other areas of learning and the real world is what Numeracy is about.

There are more facts and useful information you can find on the nationalnumeracy website, and there is a link to the website on this slide.

The UK needs a numerate population in order to build a strong economy and compete globally

We’ve included a quote from the OECD Director for Education and skills here: "Good numeracy is the best protection against unemployment, low wages and poor health."

We use maths in every aspect of our lives, if it’s at work, or in practical everyday activities at home and beyond.

Good numeracy is essential for parents helping children learn, for patients understanding health information, for citizens making sense of statistics and economic news. Decisions in life are so often based on numerical information; to make the best choices, we need to be numerate.

Our need for a good level of numeracy only increases as we get older.

When we start thinking about mortgages, the financial implications of borrowing money, interest rates and pensions it's essential that we're numerate enough to make informed decisions.

So many of the important decisions we must make as adults are based on numbers.

Numeracy has an increasingly important role in enabling and sustaining cultural, social, economic and technological advances, which directly links with the four purposes of the new curriculum for wales.