Numeracy

6 Mar 2024

New resources address maths anxiety for students and teachers

Strategies to promote mathematics are central to a new toolkit which could be a gamechanger in schools, and for the wider community.

A new tool to fill the data gap on learning: AMPL

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Digging deeper into Australia’s PISA data

8 Dec 2023

Can we learn from Singapore’s schools?

With the release of PISA 2022 results this week, students in Singapore have again topped the world. In Australia, results have stagnated after two decades of decline. Is there anything we can learn from Singapore’s schools?

Australian teenagers record steady results in international tests, but about half are not meeting proficiency standards

5 Dec 2023

Only half of Australian teenagers meet proficient standard in PISA

Australian high school students have achieved steady results in a new round of international tests, as ACER Senior Research Fellow Lisa De Bortoli explains.

5 Dec 2023

PISA 2022: Australian student performance stabilises while OECD average falls

An international assessment of students’ skills in mathematics, reading and science shows Australia may have stemmed a long-term decline in performance.

University partnerships boost Australia’s International Mathematical Modeling Challenge

14 Nov 2023

Top students could learn from mathematical role models in IM²C

The 2024 state winners of IM²C (Australia) will learn from university researchers how to use mathematical modelling for positive change.

16 Oct 2023

Free competency-based assessment resources for teachers and learners

A suite of competency-based learning frameworks and practice items for classroom assessments is now available on the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) website.

Developing bright minds from birth to age 12

26 Jul 2023

Developing bright minds from birth to adolescence

If you had to choose two facts to show how extensive brain development is between birth and 12 years, they might be these:

90% of a child’s brain develops in the first 5 years of life.
The connections in a 3-year-old’s brain are understood to number around 1000 trillion and reduce through the next 10 years to settle at around 500 trillion in adolescence.

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