How to Use numeracy in a Sentence

numeracy

noun

• More geared to impress customers with a barrage of numeracy than give cautious odds with huge error bars.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2011
• Some 50% of children around the world leave school without basic skills in numeracy and literacy.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 14 Oct. 2019
• On top of that, many of the crucial basics that children learn to reach literacy and numeracy standards are difficult to teach online.
  — cleveland, 7 July 2020
• Features dozens of pieces with a Letters and Numbers theme to promote literacy and numeracy.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• As numeracy increased, so did opportunities to poke gentle fun at the desire to be so precise.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2020
• There will be no circle time—that magical nexus in which kids learn to share, take turns, express themselves, all while learning literacy and numeracy through singing and telling stories.
  — Jenny Anderson, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020
• Since the Taliban seized control of her province earlier this month, Mozhgan has attended a wedding with no music and stopped her numeracy lessons for adult women.
  — Zahra Nader, Time, 20 Aug. 2021
• One example is a program in Niger that used exercises on a mobile phone to improve reading and numeracy in adult education.
  — Selena Randhawa, CNN, 31 Oct. 2017
• Instead, with more education and numeracy, both groups grow less convinced that nuclear power is risky.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2011
• The board gave the highest rating to the focus area of securing funding for early literacy, numeracy and intervention.
  — Lauryn Schroeder, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2021
• In one study conducted in the U.K., researchers found that at age 30, people with low numeracy tended to have less education and were more likely to be unemployed, in trouble with the law, and mentally and physically sicker than others the same age.
  — Carlin Flora, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
• One aspect that sets the CCSU child care center apart from other facilities is its curriculum, which works on literacy, numeracy and school readiness.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022
• What's more, our Stone Age ancestors likely would have needed an understanding of mathematical concepts like pairs and sets and basic numeracy skills to create bundles of fibers (yarn), the three-ply cord and rope from multiple cords.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
• One reason for that disparity may be the belief that literacy is more important than numeracy.
  — Carlin Flora, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
• By studying other animals’ capacities and limitations, scientists can get a better idea of where and how our own numeracy comes from.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
• And Bruckner really hates economists, financiers and anybody who has the basic numeracy to be able to deal with money professionally.
  — Felix Salmon, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Overwhelmed teachers are focused on getting the weakest students to basic levels of literacy and numeracy, and advanced learners can be an afterthought.
  — Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
• Its chief recommendation is for a massive focus on literacy and numeracy at the foundation stage, so that children stop falling behind.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• In the world of today and tomorrow, the importance of numeracy — the ability to understand, work with, and communicate effectively with numbers—is essential.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Aug. 2017
• People with low skills in other forms of literacy or numeracy also have lower health literacy.
  — Austin Frakt, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• To remedy learning losses, school systems need to go back to basics (foundational literacy and numeracy) and allow children to reconnect and catch up.
  — Yamini Aiyar For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• Teachers give multiple tests each year, many requiring large blocks of time to test individual children on long lists of specific skills mainly in literacy and numeracy.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
• Given this confluence of variables, suburban students tend to enter school with the early literacy and numeracy skills necessary to learn the prescribed curriculum.
  — Jack Schneider, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2017
• An able-bodied individual could walk down National Avenue and have multiple job offers, even if their literacy or numeracy skills were below average, and a path to the middle-class life, Chappelle said.
  — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2020
• According to the latest Gates Foundation report, released today (Sept. 17), half the children under age six in francophone Africa lack basic numeracy and literacy.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2019
• Israel’s teachers score near the bottom of international tests of literacy and numeracy.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2020
• The timeless answer, which remains true today, is literacy, communication and numeracy (reading, writing, arithmetic) because with those skills, kids can learn anything this fast-changing world requires of them.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2021
• Some employers complain that many job applicants today lack even basic literacy and numeracy skills.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• The researchers collaborated with an Indian nonprofit that placed extra teachers in schools to help the weaker students master basic literacy and numeracy skills.
  — Seema Jayachandran, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
• The survey assesses adults for a range of skills, including reading ability and comprehension, numeracy and digital problem-solving.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024