Literacy is defined as the ability to think and use language for learning, creating, communicating, and interacting with ideas, others, and the world around us.
Numeracy is defined as the ability to think and communicate, using mathematical and computational understanding, to make sense of data, identify or develop patterns, abstractions, algorithms and relationships, and solve real world problems.
Multiliteracy supports a broader and more inclusive understanding of literacy and numeracy across all disciplines. It is an invitation to expand our knowledge of the numerous literacies that support learners as they interact with ideas, other people, and the natural world around them to interpret, make meaning, solve problems, create, and communicate. Multiliteracies acknowledge our increasingly digital and information-rich world.
Multiliteracies are defined as the use of multiple modes of communication in and across multiple contexts for the purpose of communicating and making sense of information in the world around us. A multiliteracies approach makes use of learners’ unique ways of knowing, being and doing, thereby creating an accessible and more inclusive learning environment that supports the development of languages and literacies in all areas of life.
