Examples of “numeracy” in a Sentence

noun Skill with numbers.

• 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.

noun The ability to understand mathematics well enough to use it in everyday, practical situations.

• 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".

noun Ability to manipulate numbers at all, even for the simplest of arithmetic, such as adding two and two.

• 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.