The 2024 People’s Education Press seventh-grade mathematics textbook and the Mathematics Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition) were selected as research objects. Based on Yu Ping’s framework of core literacy levels and expert interpretations of the new standards, a core literacy–oriented SEC alignment model was constructed. The consistency between the new textbook and the new standards was analysed across four dimensions: overall alignment, content themes, components of core literacy, and cognitive levels. The results indicated that the consistency between the new standards and the new textbook is relatively high in the overall and content-theme dimensions. In the core literacy dimension, most components of core literacy show high consistency. However, in the cognitive dimension, the consistency at the knowledge-innovation level still needs improvement. Based on these findings, recommendations are offered for the compilation and use of the new textbook.

Zhenping Wang, Junxiong Chen, Peixin Li, Jin Liu. Analysis of the Alignment of Seventh-Grade Mathematics Textbooks with Curriculum Standards from the Perspective of Core Literacy. Frontiers in Educational Research (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 12: 111-117. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.081216.

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