ABSTRACT
The National Numeracy Project, which was introduced in the late 1990s, stated that numerate pupils should:
have a sense of the size of a number and where it fits into the number system;
know basic number facts and recall them quickly;
use what they know to figure out an answer mentally;
calculate accurately, both mentally and with pencil and paper, drawing on a range of strategies;
use a calculator sensibly;
recognise which operation is needed to solve a problem;
be able to solve a problem involving more than one single-step operation;
know for themselves that their answers are reasonable;
explain their methods and their reasoning using correct terminology;
suggest suitable units for making measurements, and make sensible estimates of measurement;
explain and make sensible predictions from the numerical data in a graph, chart or table.
