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numeracy

Mathematical literacy Neurology The ability to understand mathematical concepts, perform calculations and interpret and use statistical information. Cf Acalculia.

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? SUPERMARKET Morrisons has sent back 75% of its recruits for "remedial pre-job training." Many are late, lazy, illiterate and innumerate, unable to evenstack shelves.

TO THE Point

If you are not innumerate, you can start a business.

A gender divided

"There are too many differences to innumerate. I just hope Carlo will make me win my first Champions League," said the winger.

No special treatment for Mourinho

Will the next decade, which starts in 2011 and not tomorrow as the innumerate seem to think, be the tenties or the oneties?

Why we don't mess about with tradition; Roger's RANT

Although Martin doesn't innumerate it in his list, this fifth item could arguably be the most important one of all: "I think there has been a recognition of the productivity improvement of working digitally.

About Alias: trends that are making design exploration, modeling, visualization, and communication even more important

scientifically illiterate and largely innumerate. So claims Peter Calamai toward the end of his stimulating review of Vaclav Smil's Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years.

Realistic fortune telling

Righter comments that this aeBuy AmericaAE rule is aean irresponsible, innumerate, pernicious bit of political and economic follyAE.

A General Malaise, a Deepening Crisis Across the Globe

But the innumerate will not be the only ones who resort to the time-honoured shopping technique of grabbing the closest, the most hyped or the most nicely packaged item.

All over the shop: too much information may be better than none at all, but the level of obfuscation on product labels is starting to make a simple trip to the supermarket a perplexing experience. Ruth Prickett calls for a little clarity

We should be eliminating form study, that bane of the innumerate and the intellectually challenged.

A perfect occasion for a bit of justified lip-curling

Dai Rees came second three times, Dave Thomas and Brian Huggett filled the same spot twice, while anyone who remembers Woosie at Lytham in 2001 will know that only an innumerate Irish caddie was to blame that year.

Dredge out to Open Welsh minds to golf

Having had experience working with recent college graduates who are borderline illiterate and innumerate, I can not imagine how much lower standards will have to sink to accommodate everybody.

Academic attrition in training programs: friend or foe?

According to the company, the most probable explanation for DDoS attacks on small business is that the attackers incorrectly believe the target domain belongs to an ISP and as a result bombards the domain with innumerate combinations of e-mail addresses in an attempt to ascertain actual addresses, in a type of attack known as a Directory Harvest Attack (DHA).