Many new teachers feel ill-prepared to teach basic literacy and numeracy.
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Numeracy
//ˈnjuːməɹəsi//
Synonyms for "numeracy" (3 found)
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14 translations across 9 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 計算能力 /计算能力 noun (numerical skill)
Finnish
1 entries- laskutaito noun (numerical skill)
French
1 entries- numératie noun (numerical skill)
German
1 entries- Zahlenanalphabetismus noun (numerical skill)
Irish
1 entries- uimhearthacht noun (numerical skill)
Italian
2 entries- abilità di calcolo noun (numerical skill)
- abilità numerica noun (numerical skill)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- tallferdighet noun (numerical skill)
- tallforståelse noun (numerical skill)
- tallkyndighet noun (numerical skill)
Polish
1 entries- umiejętność liczenia noun (numerical skill)
Russian
3 entries- математи́ческая гра́мотность noun (numerical skill)
- уме́ние счита́ть noun (numerical skill)
- числова́я гра́мотность noun (numerical skill)
Sample sentences
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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.
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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".
Source: wiktionary
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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