numerate

Example Sentences

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For the young, ambitious and highly numerate, Wall Street is about getting very rich, and the best place to do that is no longer at the investment banks like Goldman.

From Salon

"My laboratory has two lab heads not one, the other is Nick Paterson. I'm not a serious mathematician: I'm numerate, a data analyst, but not a developer of techniques. Nick is a world class mathematician."

From BBC

Salesmen often take advantage of people who are not very numerate, says James Daley of Fairer Finance.

From Economist

The report warns any ambitions for social and economic progress will be stifled without a literate and numerate population.

From BBC

Japan’s children – among the most numerate and literate in the world – are supposed to be able to read and write 1,006 kanji after six years of primary school education, starting at age 6.

From The Guardian