Steve Thornton, Gina Galluzzo, Mary Quinane
This short presentation provides some preliminary results of a one-on-one numeracy intervention program developed as part of the Commonwealth Government Literacy and Numeracy Pilot Projects in low SES schools. The intervention was modelled on a reading recover program (Clay, 1993), using a lesson structure based on research into how the brain learns mathematics (Sousa, 2007). Students identified as having low numeracy levels in years 1, 4 and 8 at several Catholic schools in the West and South of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn were withdrawn for thirteen weeks and given on-on-one intervention by a specially trained teacher.