Numeracy Quotes

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

I did all right in school, especially in math.

I loved numbers from a very young age. I feel like my mom led me there because, instead of giving me Game Boy and PlayStations and a TV, she gave me educational software on our family computer for Math and stuff.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

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.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

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

In our high-tech economy, preparation for earning a good living is more readily secured by those who can read, write, speak, and figure well and who have learned how to think critically and reflectively, rather than by those given specialized job training.

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

I always liked numbers.

I am very anxious and think it most important that you should always be surrounded with numbers

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Whenever you can, count.

We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that here is a number, and that number is above it, and that's too high. It's not a very complicated idea.

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

I once dated a guy so dumb he could not count to 21 unless he was naked

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

I'm not good at math.

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

The truth is that many of the writers of 'The Simpsons' are deeply in love with numbers, and their ultimate desire is to drip-feed morsels of mathematics into the subconscious minds of viewers.