numeracy

Up to 50% of people in the West don't have basic numeracy skills enough to do what you describe.

We have the ability to compensate for our lack of numeracy by thinking through problems with structured languages.

These are amazing, primarily because they teach the related concepts of numeracy and geometry/scale all at once.

In a utopian world basic programming skills would be treated the same as basic literacy and numeracy.

Rather, understanding how and why they work, and how to select the methods, improves numeracy in general.

That problem is the false belief that numeracy is improved by learning different ways of looking at number operations.

Developing nations will do fine with basic literacy/numeracy until their economies are sufficiently advanced as to require higher levels of education to advance.

But I would also argue that becoming good at programming, physics, or chemistry (among others) also develops good numeracy.

Some countries have invented a special words for this latter kind of maths use - 'numeracy' and 'functional skills' are in use in the UK.

I was arguing that we live in a post-literate post-numeracy world where most people have not learned the basics of science.

Learning the quadratic formula by rote does not contribute to numeracy.

How does a developing nation become post-industrialized with basic literacy/numeracy.

The "real" climatologists stopped mentioning the hockey stick a while ago, at least in places where some numeracy could be assumed.

The millenials "dead last for numeracy among the study's 22 developed countries"?

[I have thought about how "critical thinking skills," to use a buzzword, relates to basic numeracy.

In CA, "driving literacy", which is almost sufficient for piloting said steel contraption, is comparable to real literacy, and I suspect is way above numeracy.

Numeracy is required for many professions while innumeracy is targeted and taken advantage of by news makers and, for lack of a better word, propagandists.