Sentence examples for first numeracy from inspiring English sources

The first numeracy exam, being sat this year, is a series of questions to assess basic numeracy skills such as addition, multiplication and division.

Consequently, the answers on the third numeracy question (correct response 0.1) were not taken into account in the composite.

The OECD, which published the report, said teenagers in England aged 16 to 19 were judged to have the worst literacy levels and the second-worst numeracy levels of the 23 developed nations studied.

In literacy the United States was eighth from the bottom; in numeracy third from the bottom; and in problem solving sixth from the bottom.

The first, on adult numeracy, reported in March.

In this section, we first discuss Japanese numeracy in light of our results.

The second test of numeracy, which will be introduced next May, will assess pupils ability to solve problems involving numbers they are likely to face in everyday life.

Results of IV estimations that use the second plausible value of numeracy skills as an instrument for the first plausible value are shown in row (3) of Table 1.

All the point estimates presented in the main text are constructed using one such plausible values for literacy and for numeracy (the first).25.25

Instrumenting the first plausible value of numeracy with any other plausible value or with all other plausible values simultaneously delivers almost identical results.

This is also consistent with the fact that also in these two countries, the estimate increases compared to the OLS estimate when the second plausible value of numeracy is used as an instrument.