Guest Posted December 8, 2005 Posted December 8, 2005 I'm a student teacher and have got to do an assignment on the difference between mathematics and numeracy anybody any ideas?????
Guest Posted December 8, 2005 Posted December 8, 2005 (edited) numeracy is "the state of being numerate" ie having an undestanding of maths Mathematics is "the science of magnitude and number, the relations of figures and forms, and of quantities expressed as symbols" (definitions supplied by Chambers dictionary) So, I guess mathematics is the knowledge bit and numeracy is the understanding and application of that knowledge. Edited December 8, 2005 by Guest
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