Our country requires a fully numerate and literate population.
Generally speaking, they are numerate, and they have administrative skills.
How can the illiterate child or the child who is not numerate be identified by constant assessment?
Somebody is obviously trying to make him literate, since they cannot make him numerate.
There is now less clerical back-up, and so employees must become more numerate and better at record keeping.
They needed to be both literate and numerate, and the education system was developed accordingly.
I do so in the knowledge of the figures produced by several numerate firms within the engineering community.
However, by the end of the second term of secondary education he was barely numerate.