There are two main sections to the Numeracy Project Framework:

Strategy
This describes the mental processes students use to estimate answers and solve operational problems with numbers.

Knowledge
The describes the key items of knowledge that students need to learn.

It's important that students make progress in both sections of the framework. Strong knowledge is essential for students to broaden their strategies across a full range of numbers, and knowledge is often an essential prerequisite for the development of more advanced strategies.

NumPA (Diagnostic Interview)

This diagnostic interview is administered in an individual interview. It is used to fully assess both knowledge and strategy in detail.

GloSS Maths Assessment

The GloSS (Global Strategy Stage) assessment is an individual test of mathematical strategies, in which the teacher spends time with each student observing and recording their approaches to number-based problem-solving. Students are assigned stages, reflecting their overall ability to apply an increasingly sophisticated range of calculation strategies when solving problems.

There are eight strategy stages altogether, with the first three often grouped together:

• Stage 0-3: Counting from One - children can solve problems by counting from one, either using physical materials, or in their head.
• Stage 4: Advanced Counting - children can solve problems by counting in ones, or by skip counting, starting from numbers other than one.
• Stage 5: Early Additive - children can solve simple problems by splitting up and adding together the numbers in their head.
• Stage 6: Advanced Additive - children use a range of different methods to solve more challenging problems in their head.
• Stage 7: Advanced Multiplicative - children use a range of different methods to solve multiplication and division problems in their head.
• Stage 8: Advanced Proportional - children can solve complicated problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages using a combination of methods.