innumerate
adjective
unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods; unable to use mathematics; not numerate.
innumeracy
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a word derived from
innumerate.
Example Sentences
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“One rarely discussed consequence of innumeracy is its link with pseudoscience,” Poulos wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Other targets include bringing local public transport closer to London’s standard, extending 5G and fibre broadband across the country and working to eliminate illiteracy and innumeracy in primary school leavers, it said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 2, 2022
The message lands easily because of the general innumeracy — and specifically the ignorance of statistics — of the people consuming it.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021
"Eradicating illiteracy and innumeracy is central to our plan for education," she said.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2014
It’s not necessarily the human condition, I would hope, but a remediable innumeracy which results in this unfortunate tendency.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
