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"Counting On" is a systemic mathematics program that targets low achieving students in the final year of government elementary and the first year of government secondary schools through the professional development of their teachers. During 2000, "Counting On" was implemented in 40 secondary schools, involving more than 600 students, 120 school teachers, and 40 district mathematics consultants. In 2001, the implementation was extended to approximately 80 secondary schools and 80 final year elementary classes which "feed" these secondary schools, involving some 1,400 students, 320 teachers, and the 40 district mathematics consultants. This paper reports on evaluations of the program in 2000 and 2001, with particular reference to students' movement across the levels of conceptual development in place value contained in the numeracy framework which underpins the program. (Author)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert