Irma Rachmah Hidayah, Lathiful Anwar, Cholis Sa’dijah, Peter Grootenboer
Research on numeracy has garnered significant interest of many researchers. Numeracy is a set of skills, knowledge, dispositions, communication skills, and practices related to mathematics and statistics that must be mastered. This study presents a step-by-step systematic literature review (SLR) to explore the evolution of numeracy research, primarily on the research designs, research subjects, research methods, instruments, data analysis techniques, and the most-cited numeracy research over the last decade. This study resulted that the quantitative method has dominated numeracy research in the past ten years. Research topic of early numeracy and the parent involvement as well as home numeracy with preschoolers as research subject also dominated numeracy research. Besides, the most common instruments are tests and questionnaire sheets. Quantitative numeracy studies commonly use descriptive statistics, percentages, correlations, and regressions for data analysis techniques. This study also found that the most cited publication over the past decade addressed the development of early and home numeracy with the quantitative design. Besides children, adults also have a lot of difficulties dealing with the practice of numeracy in functional and social contexts due to the complexity of numeracy in everyday life. Therefore, future studies must focus on developing adult numeracy skills, including longitudinal and intervention studies and curricular change in schools and universities for better mathematics education. © 2025 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
Department of Mathematics, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia; School of Education and Professional Studies Education, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
