Literacy & Numeracy Week 3

Activity 1.5 - Literacy and/or Numeracy demands of Mathematics

What good does it do to be able to solve a maths problem if you can't read and understand the problem in the first place?

According to Thelma Perso, "Being numerate requires a certain degree of literacy skill as well as being able to perform the mathematics."

Mathematics requires both literacy and numeracy skills. In order to solve a maths problem you need to be able to read and comprehend the problem. This requires both code-breaking and comprehension skills (i.e. literacy). Of course to solve the problem you also need the necessary numeracy skills such as multiplication, algorithms and adding and subtracting.

References
The Free Library. (n.d.). Cracking the NAPLAN code: numeracy and literacy demands: Thelma Perso examines the literacy demands of NAPLAN test items and provides advice about the explicit teaching of code-breaking and comprehension skills that are essential to numeracy. Retrieved March 20, 2010, from http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cracking+the+NAPLAN+code:+numeracy+and+literacy+demands:+Thelma+Perso...-a0210224587