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Numeracy

Numeracy is the ability to understand and use numbers, especially the numbers encountered in everyday life. The term is by analogy with literacy. Innumeracy is a lack of numeracy.

Numeracy is often included in literacy programs, and is often seen as included in literacy.

Numeracy is considered a skill; the pathological inability to work with numbers, usually associated with neurological lesions, is acalculia.

External Links

• Definition of numeracy as used by SIL International
• Site promoting numeracy

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