Mathematics literacy is a comprehensive quality, which is mainly manifested in concepts, abilities, language, thinking and psychology. It includes five parts: mathematical consciousness, problem solving, mathematical reasoning, information exchange and mathematical psychological quality.
What is mathematical literacy? Mathematical literacy refers to students' mathematical thinking consciousness and mathematical ability to observe the world, deal with problems and solve problems by mathematical methods. It is based on innate genetic factors and internalized in the development of disciplines through continuous understanding and practice.
Generally speaking, a person's good mathematical literacy is similar to saying that a person has a mathematical mind. In the final analysis, he thinks from a mathematical point of view. A person with mathematics literacy can not only solve problems in mathematics exams, but also show that he has been studying mathematics in daily life, which is gradually internalized in long-term mathematics learning.
Mathematics literacy that primary school students should possess;
1. From the conceptual level, we should have a conscious sense of quantity and quantity mathematics.
Mathematical consciousness refers to observing, explaining and expressing the quantitative relationship, spatial form and data information of things with mathematical viewpoints and attitudes, thus forming quantitative consciousness and good sense of numbers.
Quantitative mathematical consciousness: it means that people abstract mathematical problems from reality, abstract them into mathematical models, find the solution or approximate solution of this model through mathematical calculation, then return to reality for testing, modify the model to make it more practical when necessary, and finally compile a software package to solve problems, so as to get a wider and more convenient application.
2. Considering from the level of ability, we should have mathematical literacy in solving problems. Mathematics originates from reality, exists in reality and is used in reality. The purpose of popularizing mathematics teaching is to enable students to acquire the ability to solve mathematical problems encountered in daily life and work and other problems that can be solved by mathematics. In short, it is to describe, analyze and solve problems with "mathematical" thinking habits.