numeracy

plural numeracies

1. Numerical skill.
   1. countableuncountableCompetence with mathematics and with how to apply it to practical applications; sufficient ability to think critically in a quantitative way.

      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".

      Antonyms: innumeracy, dyscalculia

   2. countableuncountableAbility 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.

      Antonyms: innumeracy, dyscalculia