Core literacy is the backbone of students' literacy development, occupying the core position and playing a leading role. Non-core literacy can be cultivated and developed on the basis of core literacy. Mathematics literacy is the essential core literacy of students, and the core literacy is the most critical and necessary literacy that determines the development direction of students, including mathematics literacy.

Mathematical literacy belongs to the comprehensive thinking form of epistemology and methodology, and has the cognitive characteristics of conceptualization, abstraction and patterning.

People with mathematical literacy are good at popularizing and applying conceptual conclusions and processing methods in mathematics to understand all objective things, and have such philosophical height and cognitive characteristics.

Introduction to core literacy:

The core literacy of students' development mainly refers to the necessary character and key ability that students should have to meet the needs of lifelong development and social development. Studying students' core literacy is an important measure to implement the fundamental task of moral education, and it is also an urgent need to adapt to the development trend of world education reform and enhance the international competitiveness of China's education.

Core literacy is the embodiment of the party's educational policy, and it is an intermediate link connecting macro-educational concepts, training objectives and specific educational and teaching practices.

Culture is the foundation and soul of human existence. Cultural foundation emphasizes acquiring knowledge and skills in the fields of humanities and science, mastering and applying outstanding achievements of human wisdom, cultivating inner spirit, pursuing the unity of truth, goodness and beauty, and cultivating a person with rich cultural foundation and high spiritual pursuit.