10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INNUMERATE»
Discover the use of
innumerate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
innumerate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
2
Unequal health: The Scandal of Our Times
If you do use statistics make sure they can be understood Most people, including
a majority ofhuman geography lecturers and a fair share of physical geography
lecturers, are innumerate – as are most students of geography. By innumerate I ...
Daniel Dorling, Danny Dorling, 2013
3
Trade the Congressional Effect: How To Profit from ...
As the sums have become bigger and bigger, Congress is more and more
incompetent with respect to basic calculation, or more accurately, innumerate.
This is true for small programs and for ones affecting the entire government.
4
Barron's PSAT/NMSQT: PSAT/National Merit Scholarship ...
The term "innumerate" (line 43) is best interpreted to mean (A) various in kind i (B
) too numerous to count (C) scientifically sophisticated (D) unable to use
mathematics (E) indifferent to astrology ANALYSIS OF QUESTION 7 The author ...
Sharon Weiner Green, Ira K. Wolf, Ph.D., 2006
5
Unequal health: The scandal of our times
By innumerate I do not mean innumerate in the sense of 'could not get an A
grade at GCSE maths'. By innumerate I mean do nothave an innatefeelfor
numbers, mathematics and simple algebra in the same way that the minority of
students ...
6
A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America
Let us take each case, to see what happens to the meaning of innumerate. If
numeracy does not depend on written symbols, then the truly innumerate would
be only those who completely lack a concept of number. Anyone who could add
or ...
Patricia Cline Cohen, 1999
7
Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative ...
... the exchange operation, a new kind of abstraction had taken place. Traders.
Innumerate. Equivalencies: Making. Change. with. Alternative. Currencies.
Chapter 4: Innumerate Equivalencies: Making Change with Alternative
Currencies.
“That's because the politicians are innumerate too. They are hopeless at risk
assessment and opportunity cost. So, for that matter, is the general public. That's
why the politicians can get away with spending zillions on the ludicrous 'war on ...
The phrase 'new innovation' is to be avoided, unless it is necessary to show
iniquity – innumerate a contrast with a previously mentioned innovation, since all
innovations are new by definition. See TAUTOLOGY. invention noun, means a ...
Graham Pointon, Stewart Clark, 2014
10
Compulsory Voting: For and Against
They are less tolerant of homosexuals and more opposed to gay rights.31 In
general, compared with the rich, the poor – including poor Democrats – are
intolerant, economically innumerate, hawkish bigots. If compulsory voting were to
help ...
Jason Brennan, Lisa Hill, 2014
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INNUMERATE»
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innumerate is used in the context of the following news items.
Britain has a productivity problem. Could email be to blame?
Perhaps the big problem is that Britain's functionally innumerate managerial elites do not even realise that it is mathematics and logic that ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
Gove to focus on prison education as way of reducing reoffending …
All very well, but so many inside are innumerate and illiterate. Mr Gove will say “getting poorly educated adults to a basic level of literacy and ... «Channel 4 News, Jul 15»
Susan Slotnick: Two sides to every story
... ahead to change people's hearts and their ideas about religion and many other long-held negative beliefs that I prefer not to innumerate. «New Paltz Times, Jul 15»
Google photos can still sync your photos after the App has been …
User control issues are likely to become more pressing as connected devices linked to innumerate cloud platforms proliferate. The hunt for ... «Empire State Tribune, Jul 15»
Café Murano, London WC2, restaurant review
... part of the consummately innumerate who could easily bowl up, hungry and bewildered, to 82 or 34 in completely different areas of London. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Budget 2015: The return of Tina
Mr Osborne is seeking to suggest that there is a remorseless logic to his package, that only the ingrate or innumerate would oppose it. «BBC News, Jul 15»
Early action key to improving maths
... programme (Kha Ri Gude) for those excluded from education under apartheid, especially the illiterate and innumerate among them. «BDlive, Jul 15»
Empathy: Overrated?
The problem, as Bloom sees it, is that “because of its focusing properties, [empathy] can be innumerate, parochial, bigoted.” People are often ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
Andy MacPhail introduced by the Phillies. And the first topic of …
Next they'll be telling us that 97% of all GM's support Sabermetrics. Hold fast to the true faith of manly, gritty, innumerate baseball, Phillies! /S. «NBCSports.com, Jun 15»
Vatican Invites Socialist Green Activist Naomi Klein to Chair 'Debate …
Unpack the loquacious pencraft and we wallow in innumerate arguments that confuse cause and effect, peppered with petulant name-calling. «Breitbart News, Jun 15»
