It's one thing to do it on a piece of paper and come up with a number but part of that becomes the ability to communicate what you've just done. When asked to give examples of decisions involving math and to think about the math skills they use as family members, workers and citizens, both learners and other stakeholders articulated examples of work, family and consumer-related situations in which mathematical communication skills are important. And so you communicated with the real estate person. And that is communication. You have to communicate with everybody.
Mathematical communication is also important within the family.
They need to learn a little bit about budgeting. And so putting that in communication, putting some of that together with the other basic skills. In order to communicate the problem to any one of our technological aids, it first must be translated to symbols and then the results from the machine must be interpreted in light of the situation. I believe it was M. who made the suggestion that from the beginning of the discussion of percent, symbols representing the words, concepts, and operations could be included. 31 Implications for Teaching and Learning Increase the focus on mathematical communication.