Excerpt from the news report posted at Inquirer.net:
" The Filipino team—composed mostly of
students from Metro Manila schools—beat Asian mathematics powerhouses China and
Taiwan to emerge as overall champion in the 2015 Singapore International Math
Competition (SIMC) held last week in the Lion City. The young Filipino numbers
aces from public and private elementary and secondary schools nationwide bagged
a total of 216 medals: 31 golds, 60 silvers and 125 bronze medals, to top the
12-nation contest."
Read more:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/710164/filipino-team-bags-216-medals-to-top-math-contest#ixzz3iC8zZDyV
A numerically
literate person can manage and respond to the mathematical demands of life.
For example, if one can understand simple mathematical equations such as,
2 + 2 = 4, then one would be considered possessing at least basic numeric
knowledge. Filipinos are evidently literate in numbers. This can be seen
usually at markets. Vendors, sellers and businessmen at all walks of life are
very good at calculating, regardless to their educational attainment.
Most vendors, salesladies and sellers at markets aren’t all college graduates,
yet they calculate the exact amount of the items to be paid by their customers
with accuracy.
Another
concrete evidence of numerical literacy of Filipinos is the bagging of
awards by the students on Math Expos held abroad. Their ability is called
numeracy. Numeracy is the ability to reason and to apply simple numerical
concepts. Basic numeracy skills consist of comprehending fundamental arithmetic
like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Substantial aspects
of numeracy also include number sense, operation sense, computation,
measurement, geometry, probability and statistics. Filipino students sent
abroad to compete and bring gold medals back to the Philippines is a strong
evidence that most Filipinos have numeracy skills.
