Numeracy Skills Quotes

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

Only 18 percent of American adults can calculate how much a carpet will cost if they know the size of the room and the per-yard price of the carpet.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.

I was definitely one of those girls where my father would sit me at the dinner table and say, 'What's two plus two?' And I'd be like, 'Five!' He would shake his head. Math and science intimidated me.

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.

I would also like to see children aged between 11 and 18 taught financial education in a structured way in schools. I would also say that that is not enough. You have also got to improve numeracy skills, mathematical skills in schools.

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

There's no such thing as a 'maths brain.' Anyone can be numerate; it's just a matter of confidence. There are so many opportunities to improve your skills during everyday life, doing even a little a day can make maths feel more familiar and less scary.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

I have met a lot of women who are good at math.

Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

I lived in fear that other engineers would stop me in the street and ask me a math question, and I wouldn't know the answer.

It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10