Count On

Count On is a major mathematics education project in the United Kingdom which was announced by education secretary David Blunkett at the end of 2000. It was the follow-on to Maths Year 2000 which was the UK's contribution to UNICEF's World Mathematical Year.^[1]

Count On had two main strands:

The website www.counton.org^[2] which won the 2002 BETT prize for best free online learning resource.^[3]
"MathFests", which were maths funfairs held around the country, aimed particularly at those who would not normally come into contact with mathematical ideas.^[4]

The MathFests were run largely by MatheMagic and the University of York.^{[citation needed]}

The project has now been handed over to the NCETM.^{[citation needed]}

Popularisation of Mathematics

Count On and Maths Year 2000 were some of the first big Popularisation of Mathematics projects. Others are listed below.

International

World Mathematical Year 2000 [1]
Statistics 2013 [2]
World Maths Day (orig. Australian) - next one is 6 March 2013 [3]

Australia

World Maths Day[4]

India

National Mathematics Year[5]

Ireland

Maths Week Ireland [6]

Nigeria

National Mathematics Year

Spain

Matematica Vital [7]
Paul Boron [8]

United Kingdom

Maths Year 2000 Scotland
Maths Cymru (Wales)

United States

Steven Strogatz's blog [9]

References

^ English pupils lag behind in maths, BBC News, 5 December 2000.
^ "My Media: Kate Scarborough", The Guardian, 31 July 2006.
^ "Deputy logs on to £100,000", Times Educational Supplement, 18 January 2002, archived from the original on 5 October 2012, retrieved 24 July 2011.
^ "No doubt about it - we're addicted to maths", Times Educational Supplement, 19 January 2001, archived from the original on 5 October 2012, retrieved 24 July 2011.