Towards Numeracy as a cultural-historical activity system

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This paper moves toward developing a cultural historical activity theory framework for numeracy. In the first part of the paper three kinds of numeracy are defined and distinguished, as follows: visible-numeracy, useable-numeracy and constructible-numeracy. Next, these distinctions are related to research and practice in numeracy; and tensions, contradictions among these formulations are identified and discussed. This then leads to the introduction of cultural historical activity theory and to a concluding discussion relating to numeracy as a cultural historical activity system.

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