numerate

Example Sentences

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He said the new qualification would ensure children leave school "literate and numerate".

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023

He said an “anti-maths mindset” had made Britain one of the least numerate nations in the developed world.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023

He continued to speak of the many graduates “not nearly literate or numerate enough to identify the main idea of a reading passage or to perform basic computations.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

But Danish workers at the 20th percentile are high school graduates who are literate and numerate.

From New York Times • May 8, 2020

Many of the counter-intuitive results cited in this book are psychological tricks similar to the above, which can induce a kind of innumeracy in even the most numerate.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos