Mankayan District

Learning Strand 3 is intended to help the learners acquire mathematical and problem solving skills that are essential in their meaningful participation in improving the quality of life of the people, community and the country as a whole.

Development of mathematical and problem solving skills among learners will enable them to apply the gained knowledge on mathematical tools in defining problems and implementing effective solutions. These skills are very essential in decision making and are highly valued in every career level.

This learning strand is also intended to develop critical functional competencies on critical thinking, communicating, making connection, spatial intelligence, logical reasoning and future orientation. These competencies specifically seek to extend the learners’ abilities in:

 knowing and understanding

 computing and solving

 visualizing and modelling

 representing and communicating

 conjecturing

 reasoning

 proving and decision making

 applying and connecting

Through the development of learners’ mathematical and problem solving skills, ALS learners will enhance their own personal and social effectiveness by way of improving the quality of life.