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Essentials of Numeracy - Improving Numeracy with Civil Service Learning
Take The Challenge
The National Numeracy Challenge is a free website to help you check and improve your numeracy - the maths you use in daily life and at work, like managing your money, working out measurements or understanding percentages, rather than algebra or trigonometry.
Your results explained
You will receive a breakdown of how you did in the 5 areas of numeracy and tips on how to improve using our learning pages.
Available on mobile
Take the Challenge on the go - doing as little as 10 minutes a day can make a huge difference.
Get the Essentials
See if you have the Essentials of Numeracy. Gaining our online certification shows that you have a good level of numeracy.
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Here are just a few of the people we've helped:
Putting you at ease
The Challenge was created to help you and guide you on your journey to improve your numeracy. Here are some of the reasons why it's so easy to use and so useful.
Quickly check your everyday maths
Improve your skills
Increase your confidence with numbers
Find out the level you’re working at, your strengths and weaknesses, and print a certificate
Get the ‘Essentials of Numeracy’
Get yourself ready in your own time to take a more formal maths course
How it works
First, we’ll ask you some everyday maths questions. This takes about ten minutes and you’ll get a score which you can use to get a rough idea of your skills.
It also populates your home screen so that you can see the questions you got wrong, resources to show you how to answer them correctly, and other resources chosen at the right level for you.
When you’re ready, practise by answering some more questions, see which ones you get wrong, and repeat the cycle until you feel you’re improving.If you prefer, you can browse more general learning pages or build your confidence by watching videos about how other people have improved their skills.
You can then use the site to take a detailed assessment of your maths skills, called the ‘check-up’. This will show you the level you’re working at, your strengths and weaknesses and set you a target to work towards. You can print a certificate too.
You can also use the check-up to see if you have the Essentials of Numeracy, which shows that you have the core numeracy skills needed in daily life and the workplace.
Rachel's story
"I've had a successful career and I'm currently a senior manager in the Civil Service. I have to regularly make complex decisions, put together budgets, interpret data and work out performance targets. However, I've struggled with numeracy all my life.
It's been my Achilles heel, so I've just put it to one side and focused on other strengths. However, I felt the time was right to brush up on my number skills. I stumbled across the Challenge website whilst browsing through a brochure for adult learning courses.
It's no exaggeration when I say that it has been, potentially, life-changing. I am highly motivated to learn and completely appreciate the importance and value of numeracy."
