numeracyn.
/ˈnjuːm(ə)rəsi/, U.S. /ˈn(j)um(ə)rəsi/ The quality or state of being numerate; ability with or knowledge of numbers.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > knowledge of
numeracy1959
1959 15 to 18: Rep. Cent. Advisory Council for Educ. (Eng.) (Min. of Educ.) I. xxv. 270 When we say that a historian or a linguist is ‘innumerate’ we mean that he cannot even begin to understand what scientists and mathematicians are talking about... It is perhaps possible to distinguish two different aspects of numeracy that should concern the Sixth Former.
1966 Economist 22 Jan. 310/2 The need for numeracy today is enormous. Business requires..people who..have grasped the principles of reducing a chaos of information to some kind of order.
1972 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 2/5 The plan must be welcomed for introducing pre-school children to reading, writing and numeracy.
2000 Independent 3 Jan. i. 1/4 More than 40 per cent of children end their first year of secondary school with lower levels of literacy and numeracy than when they arrived.
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numeracy hour n. (also with capital initials) British Education (in primary schools) a daily numeracy lesson, made part of the national curriculum in 1999; cf. literacy hour n. at literacy n. Compounds 2.
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1997 Observer 8 June 1/6 Labour will encourage schools to introduce the literacy and numeracy hours as soon as possible in order to meet ambitious targets for the end of its first term in government.
2005 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 14 Jan. 32 Only in innumerate Britain could a numeracy hour last as little as 45 minutes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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