Numeracy Development Framework

Overview

The NDF supports a coherent mathematics system by helping educators:

Maintain a consistent set of core expectations across classrooms, schools, and grade levels
Strengthen alignment among standards, instruction, assessment, and HQIM
Identify essential within-grade content and understand how it connects to prior and future learning
Plan strategic and focused student support, including intervention and enrichment
Communicate with families using shared, accessible language about how numeracy grows

By outlining end-of-year competencies, the NDF helps educators connect individual grade-level skills to the broader content progression, making it easier to understand how learning develops across grades and how current instruction supports readiness for what comes next.