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.
3. Considering from the language level, we should have the mathematical quality of exchanging information in mathematical language. Mathematics is not only the language of science, but also the language of daily life. Mathematical language is characterized by precision, simplicity and abstraction. It can make people clear, accurate and concise when expressing their thoughts, and can express the complex relations in problems clearly when dealing with them. With the increasingly widespread application of new technologies, the demand for communication by using mathematics is also increasingly extensive. The application of communication in primary school mathematics teaching is helpful to meaningful mathematics learning. If there is rich communication in math class, you can get double benefits: first, those students who actively participate in the discussion have a better understanding of mathematics in different disputes; Second, if students are given the opportunity to listen, speak, read and write math in math class, they will learn math communication.
4, from the level of thinking, should have the ability of mathematical reasoning.
"Mathematics Curriculum Standard" points out: "Reasoning ability is mainly manifested in: obtaining mathematical conjecture through observation, experiment, induction and analogy, and further proving, giving evidence or giving counterexamples; Be able to express your thinking process clearly and methodically, and be reasonable and well-founded; In the process of communicating with others, you can use mathematical language to discuss and ask questions logically. " According to the requirements of the standard, mastering relatively perfect reasoning ability is an important link and main symbol of children's intellectual development, and attention should be paid to cultivating and developing children's reasoning ability in mathematics teaching. Combined with teaching practice, we believe that common reasoning in primary school mathematics includes inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning and analogical reasoning.