numeracy in Finnish

numeracy in Finnish

What does "numeracy" mean?

1. noun Skill with numbers.
2. 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"."
3. 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."

numeracy in a sentence

• 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".
• 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.
• 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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