喜樂美語
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    Innumeracy is not being able to handle simple numbers: adding, sharing things out, reading a simple chart, or noticing when a number in an or in the news cannot be right. It is like illiteracy (not being able to read), but for maths. The word is not old. Douglas Hofstadter made it, and a , John Allen Paulos, made many people notice it in a 1989 book. You meet it in talk about school and public life, not much in children’s everyday chat. The state is innumeracy; the person is .

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組成in- (not) + numeracy (skill with numbers). Coined by Douglas Hofstadter and made widely known by John Allen Paulos in his 1989 book Innumeracy.

同家族的字

  • numeracythe skill this word says you do not have
  • numerateable to work with numbers — the opposite idea
  • innumeratedescribes a person with innumeracy

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

innumeracynoun/ɪˈnjuːmə.ɹə.si/

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    Lack of numeracy; low numeracy.

    • John Allen Paulos and others have asked our society to consider numeracy and innumeracy in a way closer to how we view literacy and illiteracy.
    • The man suffered from innumeracy stemming from a brain injury, and depended on his wife for all financial matters, no matter how trivial.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。