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Numeracy for everyday life (e.g., budgeting, time
management, games/sports, and household tasks).
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Numeracy for community, for civic participation, and for
understanding social and political issues.
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Work related numeracy, including measuring, scheduling,
tracking/monitoring, and managing revenues and expenditures.
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Numeracy for personal organization, in matters such as
money, time, and travel.
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Numeracy for knowledge and further learning (needed for
further study in disciplines and trades requiring mathematics).
Responding to
Situations and Problems
There are several types of response:
(8)
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Identifying or locating relevant mathematical information in
the task or situation.
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Acting upon or reacting to the information in the situation
(e.g., by counting, measuring, estimating, or calculating).
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Understanding and interpreting the information, and
comprehending what it means or implies (e.g., whether something makes sense or
is appropriate within a given context).
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Communicating: Originating and understanding messages that
contain numbers (in all forms) verbally, in writing, or visually.
Mathematical
Ideas
Numerate behaviour involves responding to information about
mathematical ideas such as the following: (9)
8 ILSS Numeracy Framework, pp. 17
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9 ILSS Numeracy Framework, pp. 18
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