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Meanings of innumerate in inglês

Lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods.

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        Examples for "numerate"
        1
        They won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English.
        The Guardian
        2
        Curtis adds that being highly numerate and having good analytical skills is increasingly important.
        The Guardian
        3
        This sophisticated approach to risk requires a numerate society, which causes challenges for Ireland's schools.
        The Irish Times
        4
        We're the least literate and numerate country in Africa.
        The South African
        5
        Any numerate school student could make the calculation.
        The Guardian
        Usage of innumerate in inglês
        1
        It also pressures politicians who too often mistake innumerate editorials for the public will.
        Independent.ie
        2
        It was another of those late-night agreements, which are as legally sophisticated as they are financially innumerate.
        The Irish Times
        3
        He can tell from her peevish sigh that his twenty minutes are, in her rough innumerate estimation, up.
        The crimson petal and the white
        4
        There are some seven million people worldwide named after him and innumerate institutions, churches and streets also carry his name.
        The Irish Times
        5
        When the heady whiff of the 1916 Rising fills his nostrils, he starts babbling the innumerate arithmetic of Irish republicanism.
        The Irish Times
        6
        In truth, it proves nothing of the sort: to hold Khan responsible you'd need to be politically motivated, innumerate or both.
        The Guardian
        7
        Many people feel being literate is extremely important, but that being innumerate or "mathematically illiterate" is not a problem.
        The Irish Times
        8
        Equally innumerate is his observation that while the cold war superpowers never met on the battlefield, they supported proxies in civil wars.
        The Guardian
        9
        Madam, How disappointing that the report (Home News, September 6th) of an interesting survey is spoiled by an innumerate main claim.
        The Irish Times
        10
        And, to be absolutely clear, that's 4,700 PHAs, not 47,000 as reported by various newspapers and scores of other innumerate websites.
        BBC
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        Innumerate through the time