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England rugby star Tom Wood launches a new five week programme - Tackling Numbers - which will use rugby to improve the maths skills of hundreds of Northamptonshire schoolchildren. Tackling Numbers is a joint initiative delivered by The 12 Premiership Rugby Clubs and MBNA, Europe’s largest credit card provider. The scheme will be taken up by over 800 schools in England between this season and 2013. By the end of the 2011 summer term, 600 children at 20 Northampton schools will already have taken part in the scheme.England rugby star Tom Wood launches a new five week programme - Tackling Numbers - which will use rugby to improve the maths skills of hundreds of Northamptonshire schoolchildren. Tackling Numbers is a joint initiative delivered by The 12 Premiership Rugby Clubs and MBNA, Europe’s largest credit card provider. The scheme will be taken up by over 800 schools in England between this season and 2013. By the end of the 2011 summer term, 600 children at 20 Northampton schools will already have taken part in the scheme.

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