Examples of numerate

• Halves, quarters and eighths are more instantly recognizable and appear in most early numerate cultures.

• No concessions to the less than totally numerate are made, however.

• In turn, if commercial arithmetic were easier, it might even serve to demystify arithmetical processes for the less numerate.

• The second medical expert was very numerate; for example he understood the meaning of a median, lower quartile and upper quartile, often analyzed data and could readily quantify his judgment.

• How on earth can a youngster who may not be highly literate or numerate make headway or—to use the technical term—navigate the different possibilities?

• We are often told that many school-leavers are neither literate nor numerate.

• There are one or two peers who are perhaps illiterate but numerate.

• However, by the end of the second term of secondary education he was barely numerate.