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An Exploratory Study of Grade 6 Students’ Numeracy Nu Nu Nyunt Win Ei San The primary objective of this study was to investigate the grade 6 students’ numeracy. Then, gender difference on grade 6 students’ numeracy was explored. In addition, to examine the whether or not difference between rural school students’ numeracy and urban school students’ numeracy was next of interest. Design of this study was cross sectional in nature. Quantitative approach was used in this study. Questionnaire survey method was used to measure students’ numeracy. This study was conducted at Yangon Region, Ayeyarwaddy Region, and Rakhine Region, Myanmar. Simple random sampling technique was used in this study. The total of 546 grade 6 students from above mentioned Regions participated in this study. Numeracy Test for Grade Six Students was used as the research instrument. Alpha reliability for Numeracy Test for Grade Six Students revealed at 0.85. In this study the mean score of female students was higher than that of male students on three out of four subcomponents of numeracy test as well as the whole numeracy test. Gender related difference revealed on number operation sense component, measurement and shape component, statistics component and the whole test of numeracy. Looking across the four subcomponents, grade six students perform best on statistics component and the second highest was number and operation sense among four subscales of numeracy test. In addition, results also revealed that the mean score of Grade 6 students from urban schools was higher than that of Grade 6 students from rural schools on each subscale of numeracy test as well as a whole numeracy test. 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12678/0000005188 https://meral.edu.mm/records/5188