Constructing charts and graphs to illustrate or determine the impact of details. Validating or persuading, using data or details to determine and support a particular position. Conferring with others to generate new knowledge or to confirm a position on a topic. The authors maintain that students become mathematically literate the same way they become literate in reading. Mathematics is more than numbers just as reading is more that letters.
Literacy involves placing numbers into meaningful context in daily living.
It is demonstrated by students putting numbers to good use within the structure of their lives, their stories and their literature. Students work together, observing and investigating uses of numbers, asking questions, and planning strategies, to find the answers. These are the kinds of activities that can create and support the environment for mathematical literacy. Teachers Ideas Press. Motivation in Mathematics.