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numeracy

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈnjuːməɹəsi/Part of speech nounSorted acemnruyStarts with NEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. skill with numbers and mathematics

Word origin

From numerate + -cy, from Latin numerus; coined with numerate in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.

Used in a sentence

  • John Allen Paulos and others have asked our society to consider numeracy and innumeracy in a way closer to how we view literacy and illiteracy.
  • Numeracy includes such things as comprehending intuitively that a mean can sometimes be vastly different from a median and thus does not always represent a typical specimen, even despite being called "average".
  • The man lost all numeracy when he had a stroke, so he now depended on his wife for even the simplest financial matters, such as making change or paying a cashier.

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