For further information visit the Reach For The Stars website

The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers has been conducting Reach for the Stars as part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week since 2003. Previous investigations have explored our height and the size of our feet (2003 and 2007), how we travel to school (2004), the features of "Money Trails" and the minting dates of circulating Australian coins (2005), and a series of balloon relays (2006)!

The common theme is one of classes collecting data locally, submitting their results to a national data collection via the Internet, and exploring their own findings as well as a summary of the data collected by participants from across Australia.

The activities have involved more than 50 000 students each year. In 2007, data was reported by 76 862 participants in 506 schools, and many teachers and schools now make Reach for the Stars a regular element of their participation in National Literacy and Numeracy Week.

Features of Reach for the Stars include: