numeracy hour

This was introduced in 1998 with a daily literacy and numeracy hour for all primary schools.

The most emblematic of its policies were the centrally-driven literacy and numeracy hours in schools.

All these activities are carefully structured to fit the National Curriculum and the literacy and numeracy hours for year six.

And Literacy and Numeracy hours.

Introduced Literacy and Numeracy Hours into schools, and set targets for literacy and numeracy.

The onset of the Literacy and Numeracy Hour and the didactic approach favoured by Chris Woodhead made this type of teaching out-dated.

Use of the grid method has been standard in mathematics education in primary schools in England and Wales since the introduction of a National Numeracy Strategy with its "numeracy hour" in the 1990s.

The School programme is based on the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme (PYP) whilst keeping certain elements of the English National Curriculum, such as the literacy hour and numeracy hour.

In the U.K. the phrase came into widespread classroom use from the late 1990s when the National Numeracy Strategy brought in an emphasis on in-classroom discussion of strategies for developing mental arithmetic in its "numeracy hour".

In the U.K. this approach for elementary division sums has come into widespread classroom use in primary schools since the late 1990s, when the National Numeracy Strategy in its "numeracy hour" brought in a new emphasis on more free-form oral and mental strategies for calculations, rather than the rote learning of standard methods.