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09/09/22 05:22 AM IST

11% of Class 3 kids lack basic Math skills, 37% have limited skills: Study

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  • Thirty-seven per cent of 86,000 Class 3 students surveyed across 10,000 schools in 20 languages for the first-of-its-kind one-on-one nationwide study showed “limited” foundational numeracy knowledge and skills and 11% lacked most basic knowledge and skills.
Major Findings 
  • Each student responded to a set of questions orally for the Union education ministry and the National Council of Educational Research and Training study.
  • A report titled “Foundational Learning Study 2022”.
  • The study covered both foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
  • The report said its objective was to provide reliable and valid data about Class 3 students to know what they are able to do in foundational literacy and numeracy and the extent of learning outcomes being achieved.
  • In numeracy, the students were tasked with the identification of numbers, addition, and subtraction, etc.
  • Overall nationally, 11% of the respondents could not complete the most basic grade-level tasks, 37% partially completed basic grade-level tasks, 42% successfully completed the task. Only 10% were found to have developed superior skills.
  • Tamil Nadu had the highest number of students (29%) lacking basic numeracy skills, followed by Jammu & Kashmir (28%), Assam, and Gujarat (18% each).
  • In the case of Hindi, 21% of the students lacked the most basic skills, and 32% had limited skills. 
Foundational Literacy 
  • Foundational learning forms the basis of all future learning and includes two main pillars – foundational literacy and foundational numeracy which a child is expected to acquire by Grade 3.
  • Foundational literacy means being able to read with comprehension by grade.
  • Child’s ability to solve basic maths problems(such as addition and subtraction)
  • Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) is one of the major themes of the NEP 2020.
Source- Indian Express 

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