Western Cape launches pilot programme to boost early-grade numeracy [SOUND]

# The Western Cape Education Department has launched a pilot programme to improve early-grade numeracy outcomes. Education MEC David Maynier says the initiative follows the success of early-grade reading interventions. Seventy schools are participating, with 225 Grade 1 teachers trained this month. Maynier says the full rollout over three years will reach about ten-thousand teachers across three languages, supported by Funda Wande’s “Bala Wande” programme and new maths resource kits for classrooms: