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The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... The 16th and 17th centuries saw a transformation in arithmetical calculation as Roman numerals were replaced by Arabic ones. The evidence for popular numeracy cannot easily be measured in the same way as that for literacy, but this period saw the beginning of calculations on paper, double‐entry bookkeeping, the adoption of arithmetical signs, such as = for equals, and the beginnings of political arithmetic, e.g. the demographic calculations of Gregory King . See Keith Thomas , ‘ Numeracy in Early Modern England ’, Transactions of the Royal Historical...
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A Dictionary of Education (2 ed.)
...Teachers themselves, whether in schools or in colleges of further education, must demonstrate an appropriate level of numeracy through the professional skills test before they achieve qualified status. An individual who is competent in numeracy is termed ‘numerate’, while one who is not may be referred to as ‘innumerate’. One of the earliest references to the term itself was in the Crowther Report ( 1959 ), which argued that numeracy, as well as literacy, was an essential skill and central to a sound...
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Pavla Miller and Jennifer M. Jones
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
...learning—were reserved for men. The history of numeracy depends far more on defining what “numeracy” stands for than does the history of reading and writing. If it is seen as the capacity to work out everyday equivalents, distances, quantities, and spaces, most adults in most of the worlds' cultures were numerate. If numeracy is defined as the capacity to perform basic operations with Arabic numerals, the proportion shrinks dramatically. Seen in this restricted sense, in the same way that literacy did, numeracy and the calculating mentality it helped foster...
Numeracy in Health and Risk Messaging Reference library
Priscila G. Brust-Renck, Julia Nolte, and Valerie F. Reyna
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing
...and advertisements). Similarly, the numeracy understanding in medicine instrument (NUMi; Schapira et al., 2012 ) is an integrative measure of numeracy that assesses comprehension beyond computational ability by testing other skills such as number sense and graph literacy. The NUMi is based on a two-parameter item response theory analysis and is designed to be a comprehensive assessment of health numeracy for use with participants who have low levels of general numeracy. Although a more comprehensive measure of numeracy, the NUMi measures the combined skills...
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Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
... , a term denoting competence with basic mathematical concepts, was coined in 1959 on the analogy of literacy by a UK committee on education reporting in that year. The corresponding adjective is numerate...
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...numeracy is a word coined by the Committee on Education presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther in 1959 . The committee defined it as ‘not only the ability to reason quantitatively but also some understanding of scientific method and some acquaintance with the achievements of science’. Clearly there was a need for such a word, and it, together with numerate , long ago settled into the standard language....
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • radiancy • immediacy , intermediacy • expediency • idiocy • saliency • resiliency • leniency • incipiency , recipiency • recreancy • pruriency • deviancy • subserviency • transiency • pliancy • buoyancy , flamboyancy • fluency , truancy • constituency • abbacy • embassy • celibacy • absorbency • incumbency , recumbency • ascendancy , intendancy, interdependency, pendency, resplendency, superintendency, tendency, transcendency • candidacy • presidency , residency • despondency • redundancy • infancy • sycophancy • argosy •...
Public Knowledge, Scientific Literacy, Numeracy and Perceptions of Climate Change Reference library
Jaime L. Gilden and Ellen Peters
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication
...levels of numeracy differently to affect individuals higher and lower in numeracy in meaningful ways. Subjective Numeracy’s Role in Judgment and Decision Making Recent research has indicated different roles for subjective numeracy than objective numeracy in judgment and decision processes ( Peters & Bjalkebring, 2015 ). In particular, individuals who rate themselves lower versus higher in subjective numeracy are less motivated to perform numeric tasks and are more likely to react negatively to numbers independent of their objective numeracy scores (...
Factors to Consider while Teaching Early Numeracy Skills in an Inclusive Education Setting Reference library
Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk
Oxford Encyclopedia of Inclusive and Special Education
...Focus on Early Numeracy Development. Early numeracy guidance and intervention before school is optimal, because young children who lack basic numeracy skills at the start of school have difficulty catching up to their same-age ability-advantaged peers. Early numeracy development begins in the home with parents and early childcare educators/providers as children’s first teachers. According to the home numeracy model proposed by Skwarchuk, Sowinski, and LeFevre ( 2014 ) , children’s early exposure to activities with an advanced formal numeracy focus (e.g., skip...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...remained a major issue of debate in British society. There was at least as much debate about the levels of instruction appropriate to the various levels and sections of British society. Did the bulk of the lower ranks, engaged in manual or menial labour, need literacy or numeracy, let alone systematic access to more developed skills and areas of knowledge? Cobbett, for one, felt that what they needed more urgently was greater material sustenance to quell ‘the gnawings and ragings of hunger’, and that schools were only a distraction from these pains, a...
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John L. Halstead
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...doubts about the validity of this social formation are well founded, the concept has led to new information about ‘respectability’, occupational communities, and the inheritance of skill within families. The necessarily local study of this social formation raises questions of numeracy as well as literacy, since a principal method of investigation is through the analysis of marriage registers. The most sophisticated treatment, statistically and sociologically, is Roger Penn , Skilled Workers in the Class Structure ( 1984 ), a study of Rochdale. Royden...
