A European project · 5 countries

Math that
changes
things.

What if maths wasn’t about tests, but about power, understanding it, questioning it, and using it? Civic Maths connects numbers with real life, for young people and those who work with them.

Young people 16–25

Want to understand the world?

Workshops, activities, and resources that connect maths to things that actually matter, climate, money, elections, housing.

Youth workers & educators

Want better tools to teach with?

Free training modules, a full curriculum, and an implementation guide, built with practitioners, for practitioners.

“Numbers describe power. Learning to read them is an act of citizenship.”
1

Maths is everywhere in public life

Budgets, polls, statistics, interest rates, civic decisions are made in numbers. Not understanding them means not having a voice.

2

Young people are capable of critical thinking

They don’t need simpler content, they need content that connects to their reality. Civic Maths does exactly that.

3

Civic education needs new tools

Most civic education programmes ignore quantitative reasoning entirely. This project bridges that gap in non-formal learning.

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