numerate

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Improvements in K-14 education to get every child literate, numerate, graduating from high school and, where possible, into at least community college, the military or technical training.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

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

From BBC • Oct. 4, 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

In addition to being wise to the problem of selfselected samples, the numerate consumer should also understand the related problem of the selfselected study.

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