What is Numeracy about?

Numeracy is a foundational skill that enables access to further learning, develops important life skills, and allows people to fully engage in work and in their communities.

Everyone has a role to play in developing NCEA numeracy, including school leaders, kaiako, whānau and ākonga.

When kaiako make the numeracy that naturally occurs in their learning programmes explicit, and when school leaders and whānau also support numeracy learning, ākonga:

• gain access to different perspectives of mathematics and statistics in a range of authentic and meaningful contexts;

• have multiple opportunities to practise their numeracy skills and transfer this knowledge between NCEA learning areas and their own lives; and

• can meet subject-specific numeracy demands.

Process Ideas

Learners formulate mathematical and/or statistical approaches to solving problems in a range of meaningful situations

Learners:

• determine the mathematics and/or statistics needed in a range of situations.

• formulate and carry out plans to use mathematics/statistics.

• select appropriate representations of the mathematics or statistics – eg, graphs, tables, diagrams, equations, expressions.

Learners use mathematics and statistics to meet the numeracy demands of a range of meaningful situations

Learners:

• apply mathematical and/or statistical concepts.

• use appropriate mathematical/statistical approaches, which may include digital calculations.

• use a degree of precision appropriate to the situation (including estimation).

Learners explain the reasonableness of mathematical and statistical responses to situations

Learners:

• consider and explain the reasonableness of solutions, outcomes, and approaches while reflecting on how these were chosen.

• engage in sense-making to interpret solutions in relation to the situation given, including in different cultural contexts (see “Unpacking Numeracy”).

• provide evidence-based conclusions.

• use critical judgements in relation to statements based on mathematical and statistical ideas.

  • critique these statements

  • explore different approaches to them

  • respect the thinking of others

  • respond to the ideas of others

• share mathematical and statistical ideas.

  • use mathematical and statistical language, symbols, and representations

  • share methods and results

  • use their own words to explain ideas

  • present ideas concisely and coherently

Source: NCEA Education