Correct Answer - Option 4 : Defining mathematical concepts
Skill:- A skill is the ability to do something. We are not born with skills, we learn them as we go along.
Mathematical skill:- Mathematics skills help individuals to deal with basic and everyday tasks.
- Students learn these skills in schools.
- These skills are important for both work and personal life.
- It includes verbal components(number knowledge, counting, reasoning) and non-verbal components(maths notation, reasoning in time and space)
Following are a few mathematical skills:-
- Necessary computation skills
- Estimation and approximation
- Representation of mathematical ideas using words, pictures, and symbols.
- Measurement (finding the length, weight, and height of an object)
- Interpreting graphs
- Spatial sense(Geometry,ideas of shape,size,space,poistion)
Thus, it is concluded that Defining mathematical concepts is not a mathematical skill as it is an ability to learn.