An integrated approach to the formation of mathematical and natural science literacy of middle school students

DOI: 10.15293/1812-9463.2103.04

УДК 372.016:51+372.016:57

Yarovaya Yevgeniya Anatolyevna

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Geometry and Methodology of Teaching Mathematics, Novosibirsk state pedagogical University, Novosibirsk. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8178-2117
E-mail: jnar1@yandex.ru

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE FORMATION
OF MATHEMATICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCE LITERACY
OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

The purpose of the article is to describe the author’s comprehensive approach to the formation of mathematical and natural science literacy of middle school students by performing complex tasks with biological content using scientific and methodological foundations and relying on his own experience.

The article substantiates the relevance of research in this direction and formulates
contradiction that leads to the problem of finding optimal approaches to the formation of mathematical and natural science literacy of schoolchildren as components of functional literacy. The author offers an integrated approach to the formation of the two components of functional literacy in teaching mathematics in primary school, which correlates with the formation of meta-subject results in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard. Complex tasks with biological content are selected as means of forming mathematical and natural science literacy, methodological requirements for their compilation are described and examples of tasks are demonstrated. According to the results of the study, conclusions are formulated. The prospects of work in the direction of using complex tasks with scientific content for the formation of functional literacy of students of specialized classes are outlined.

Keywords: pedagogical education, teaching mathematics, teaching biology, competence, functional literacy, mathematical literacy, natural science literacy, complex task, metasubject results.

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