Learning Age: 3 to 4 Years

Learning Track: Towards Numeracy

How Important is Numeracy Anyway?

B efore answering this question, let's understand what exactly numeracy is...

Numeracy being comfortable with the world of numbers. Numeracy means everything from counting, measuring, telling the time, understanding numeric information in different forms such as shapes and charts, to mental arithmetic.

If your child masters good numeracy, it will make learning other subjects so much easier, later on in their education.

Good numeracy skills will help your child in later life, one advantage being better employment prospects.

By talking to parents we found that they felt they didn't know where to start to help their child with numeracy.

Numbers play such an important part of our day-to-day lives.

If you were not convinced of the importance of numeracy we hope you are now.

Numeracy is as important as reading.

Just like reading, the time to lay the foundations for numeracy is to start in your child's early years.