Numeracy

Discover how ACER is monitoring and helping improve learners’ ability to access, use, interpret and communicate mathematical information and ideas.

20 Nov 2025

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Q&A: Using the ISA to improve student confidence and performance at NPS International School

PISA testing begins: Australian students to inform global measure of skills

Behind every great athlete is a great mathematician

Top teen mathematicians raise the sports bar in IM2C

Australia lifts performance in Year 4 maths and science – but system equity and engagement challenges remain

How students performed in PISA’s 8 essential maths skills

A new PISA report examines how Australian students applied their knowledge of mathematical concepts and the thinking processes they used when solving mathematical problems that arise in everyday life.

Maths strengths and struggles identified in new PISA report

Unlocking the power of learning assessments: A path to stronger foundational literacy and numeracy in the Asia-Pacific

Confidence, gender and mathematics in PISA

Year 4 students just achieved their best-ever result in a major maths and science test

4 Dec 2024

Year 4 results in global maths and science test the best ever

A major international assessment shows Australia's gender gap in Year 4 maths was one of the largest of the participating countries.

4 Dec 2024

Year 4 students hit new high in global assessment, despite pandemic

Australian year 4 students whose first years of schooling occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic have defied concerns about disrupted learning to achieve Australia’s best-ever result in an international maths and science assessment.

15 Oct 2024

Addressing the data and education gap in Timor-Leste

ACER is supporting Timor-Leste to improve education outcomes by building better national systems to monitor learning.

16 Sep 2024

From theory to reality: students witness the next level of problem solving

Experts advancing solutions for real world problems have been sharing their knowledge with Australia’s teenage top scorers in the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C).

20 Aug 2024

Project-based learning in the 21st century classroom

ACER India provided technical support to the Sri Aurobindo Society to strengthen its Auro Project-Based Learning Initiative.

3 Jun 2024

Winners of the inaugural ACER Advance Awards for Schools

More than 900 Literacy and Numeracy competition entries were completed by students around Australia in Term 4 2023 and Term 1 2024.

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