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numeracy

noun
/ˈnjuːməɹəsi/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from numerus

Definitions

  1. Numerical skill.

    • 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 neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for numeracy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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