Literacy and Numeracy Focus
Literacy and numeracy are the most crucial skills to a person’s ability to develop fully and fit into society. These two areas of learning cover vital factors that are linked in understanding the society through expressing, analyzing and problem solving. Children and young people need increasingly sophisticated levels of language and mathematics in order to take care of their health and wellbeing, participate in the workforce and make a positive contribution to the society. Mathematics supports us to analyze and reason about the nature of the world while language enables us to communicate effectively, which is vital to feeling connected to the people around us ("Why literacy and numeracy?", 2017). Providing problem solving activities in reading, writing, listening, speaking and numerating problems could enable students’ competencies in literacy and numeracy focus. Integrating literacy and numeracy in the learning process may need certain activities that could cover both area...