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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As Gelman observes, the problem with this approach as policy “is not just the innumeracy, it’s the blithe disregard for it, the idea that being off by multiple orders of magnitude ... just doesn’t matter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 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
—Walt Whitman Remembrance of Innumeracies Past Why is innumeracy so widespread even among otherwise educated people?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
