Count On Explained

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]

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 https://web.archive.org/web/20130113071154/http://wmy2000.math.jussieu.fr/
• Statistics 2013 http://statistics2013.org/
• World Maths Day (orig. Australian) - next one is 6 March 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20110925091442/http://www.worldmathsday.com/

Australia

• World Maths Dayhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110925091442/http://www.worldmathsday.com/

India

• National Mathematics Yearhttp://theindianawaaz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5405&catid=43

Ireland

• Maths Week Ireland http://www.mathsweek.ie/2012/schools/Mangahigh-online-maths-games

Nigeria

• National Mathematics Year

Spain

• Matematica Vital http://matematicavital.com/
• Paul Boron http://www.paulborons.com/

United Kingdom

• Maths Year 2000 Scotland
• Maths Cymru (Wales)

United States

• Steven Strogatz's blog http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/steven-strogatz/

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