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

Rishi Sunak said the UK was one of the least numerate countries in the developed world in a speech championing maths.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023

It’s harder-edged, more numerate and more closely connected to the floods, fires and December tornadoes that have upended millions of people’s lives.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2021

A 2012 global study of the math skills of 16-to-65-year-olds found that American adults were less numerate than adults in most other developed countries.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021

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