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 Translation for 'innumeracy' from English to French
NOUN   innumeracy | -
incapacité {f} de compterinnumeracy
math.
ignorance {f} en calcul
innumeracy
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Translation for 'innumeracy' from English to French

innumeracy
incapacité {f} de compter

ignorance {f} en calculmath.
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Usage Examples English
  • Distinguishing fact from opinion, cognitive biases, and innumeracy are all challenges to sound data analysis.
  • The school was given a deadline of five years to reduce absence and truancy, along with illiteracy and innumeracy, and had to have over 700 students enrolled within three years to receive more Fresh Start funding.
  • (previously "Education Department of Victoria") directing Principals of Primary Schools to develop special programs for pupils at risk of illiteracy and innumeracy.
  • Programme activities typically tackle issues such as poverty, deforestation, food security, preventable illnesses, illiteracy and innumeracy and access to clean water.
  • Alfred Taubman claimed research had revealed that it had been unsuccessful in part due to Americans' widespread innumeracy, specifically their inability to understand fractions: 1/3 was perceived as smaller than 1/4 (due to the smaller denominator) in spite of being a larger quantity.

  • Paulos writes about many subjects, especially of the dangers of mathematical innumeracy; that is, the layperson's misconceptions about numbers, probability, and logic.
  • Their role was the early detection and remediation of children at risk of illiteracy and innumeracy.[...] Lacy's greatest political disappointment came from the Cain Labour Government's actions after their 1982 election directed at de-emphasising and largely dismantling this educationally highly significant and ground breaking program.
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