Keyword: «natural science literacy»

The article offers tasks on functional literacy on the topic "The Mariinsky water system". It was not by chance that we chose this topic, since our Ascension (the place where we live) was formed in the middle of the XIX century on the site of the Voznesensky churchyard and the village of Svirskoye Estuary in connection with the construction of the Mariinsky water system. The tasks are intended primarily for students of the sixth and seventh grades. The answers to the tasks are presented at the end of the article.

Methodological development is a set of tasks that contribute to the formation of functional literacy. The tasks are compiled taking into account the age characteristics of students and in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard. The materials can be used by teachers of mathematics, Russian, biology, geography and other subjects both in the classroom and in extracurricular activities to assess the formation of functional literacy of schoolchildren.

This collection was formed by a team of teachers from the Leningrad region, the state Enterprise Housewarming. The collection presents tasks aimed at the development of various areas of functional literacy – natural science, mathematics, reading, finance, global competencies and cre-ativity in the subject of «New Year». The tasks are designed for 5th – 7th grade students in the for-mat of an educational quest designed to be conducted in 90 minutes.

This article describes the results of the 5th grade students' performance of functional literacy assessment tasks compiled according to the PISA model. Some problems were identified, the features and mistakes made during the work of the students were analyzed. In addition, recommen-dations were proposed for municipal education management.

The problem of the formation of functional literacy and individual forms of its development have become extremely relevant today. This is determined by the fact that the modern world is in continuous dynamic movement, and the comprehensive life aspects of a person, his self-realization, must strictly correspond to this constantly changing world. If we analyze functional literacy from the point of view of operational transformation of information and the formation of its progressive products, then the level of abilities for functional literacy, as a qualitative characteristic of a mandatory skill of the 21st century, is somehow used to solve problems in all areas of human activity, whether it is professional employment, public communications and thought processes.