Improving Debt Literacy by 2/3 Through Four Simple Infographics Requires Numeracy and Not Focusing on Negatives of Debt

Borrowing behavior may be more resistant to formal educational treatments than other financial behaviors. In order to study the process and results of infographics-based debt education, we used eye tracking technology (SMI RED 500 Hz) to monitor the oculomotor behavior of 108 participants (68 females) aged 18 to 60 who were shown 4 infographics. The study used an experimental design with repeated measures and an internal comparison group. We also used scales of debt literacy and a set of information literacy scales: numerical, graph, and linguistic. The results confirm that short-term infographics-based debt education can improve debt literacy significantly. The difference in processing the educational contents that were not known to participants before the educational session suggests that participants with better information literacy make more considerable debt literacy progress. Specifically, we found that numerical literacy is a significant mediator of debt education results, depending on the initial level of debt literacy; this relation is moderated by the focus of visual attention on negatives of debt. We found no significant relationship between debt literacy education results and those of graph and linguistic literacy.

Using Sports to Motivate Math Learners

Motivating 21st century mathematics learners is becoming increasingly difficult. Most students will no longer sit still and learn using the methods that were utilized in classrooms 100 years ago. Today, many teachers struggle to find ways to excite their students while teaching them mathematics. This chapter will present ideas for mathematics learning using sports, a particular area of interest for students of all ages. The rich variety of numbers generated by all types of sports, as well as connections to popular culture extensions, naturally provides opportunities for exploration in numerical literacy. Using real sports data, students can perform operations and calculations, do statistical analyses, and create charts or graphs to enhance their learning of both basic and advanced operations. Nearly every concept taught in a K-12 mathematics curriculum can be adapted to include sports information.

Literacy: A Literary History

Literacy is a measure of being literate, of the ability to read and write. The central activity of the humanities—its shared discipline—literacy has become one of its most powerful and diffuse metaphors, becoming a broadly applied metaphor representing a fluency, a competency, or a skill in manipulating information. The word “literacy” is of recent coinage, being little more than a century old. Reading and writing, or effectively using letters (the word at the root of literacy), are ancient skills, but the word “literacy” likely springs from and reflects the emergence of mass public education at the end of the 19th and the turn of the 20th century. In this sense, then “literacy” measures personal and demographic development. Literacy is mimetic. It is synesthetic—in some languages, it means hearing sounds (the phonemes) in what is seen (the letters); in others, it means linking a symbol to the thing symbolized. Although a recent word, “literacy” depends upon the emergence of symbolic sign systems in ancient times. Written symbolic systems, by contrast, are relatively recent developments in human history. But they bear a more complicated relationship to the spoken language, being in part a representation of it (and thus a recording of its contents) while also offering a representation of the world, the referent: that is, literacy involves an awareness of the representation of the world. Reading and writing are tied to millennia of changes in technologies of representation. As a term denoting fluidity with letters, literacy has a history and a geography that follow the development and movement of a phonetic alphabetic and subsequent systems of writing. If the alphabet encodes a shift from orality to literacy, HTML encodes a shift from verbal literacy to a kind of numerical literacy not yet theorized.

Kiprah Macandahan Memberdayakan Literasi Pemuda untuk Mewujudkan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan

Macandahan is a grassroot youth community focuses on youth literacy skills improvement. Macandahan interprets the 6 dimensions of literacy as a capital to empower youth to be able to utilize its potential to overcome problems faced by the community. Youth empowerment is not enough to do with literacy and numerical literacy, therefore Macandahan made innovation by doing permaculture farming training through science, digital, financial and cultural literacy. That effort is to address the problem of employment dependency on the oil and gas exploration sector as well as to maintain sustainability of the coconut farming sector. Based on qualitative research data, this article seeks to understand the strategy of Macandahan to empower the youth through literacy from the perspective of Critical Youth Empowerment (CYE). The CYE perspective is used to see the efforts of Macandahan in empowering youth. Macandahan is successful in encouraging young people to learn literacy, facilitating youth to understand the potential and problems by the community, adopting local culture and wisdom in farming, and fostering youth to do networking and advocating themself.

Literacy Tradition of Sundanese Society - Indonesia: An annotation of the 16th Century Ancient Manuscript

The literacy tradition of Sundanese society appeared around the 16th century AD. This was attested by the discovery of the ancient Sundanese Sanghyang Siksakandang Karesian (SSK) manuscript written in 1518 AD. The discovery of the manuscript was not only illustrated Sundanese literacy tradition at that time, but also the ability to explore and understand ideas both delivered in writing and in audio- visual. As a matter of fact, literacy activities at that time had achieved the level of understanding and solving social and statehood problems with referenced to behavior in forms of dogmas. Thus, literacy activities at that time had involved and devoted all potential and expertise to manage life or life skills. The manuscript of SSK also illustrates the realm of literacy that has been covered at that time, for example reading and writing literacy, numerical literacy, scientific literacy, financial literacy, and cultural and citizenship literacy. The description of the above facts will be explained descriptively.

Clean Water for Women and Children

This workshop gives participants an outline of a full unit in Trigonometry that covers right triangle trigonometry, the law of sines, and the law of cosines. Attendees will participate in abbreviated student tasks. In the unit students are introduced to the world water crisis and how it affects women and children the most and why this is. Using their knowledge of trigonometry and the Desmos (or other graphing) calculator to “solve” a water crisis in a town and bring clean sanitation to a remote island. This unit helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, numerical literacy, and global awareness. Students make connections to the “real world” using mathematics and become world citizens.