Sentence examples for numerical skills from inspiring English sources

Barnett's numerical skills, unmatched in the cabinet, earned the respect of Treasury officials.

"Croupiers have to have a very high level of numerical skills," said Ms Dollin-Evans.

Surveys often show a surprising lack of fundamental financial and numerical skills.

In addition though, Britain also took in a large number of immigrants with lower numerical skills.

Of course, people should learn basic numerical skills: decimals, ratios and estimating, sharpened by a good grounding in arithmetic.

A wide variety of companies will be on the look out for technical skills, numerical skills, critical thinking and evaluation of evidence, IT skills and communication skills.

In particular, a quality called "fluid intelligence"—including numerical skills and the ability to adjust rapidly to new situations begins to go downhill in middle age.

Even controlling for other skills such as verbal and numerical skills, she said, children with better spatial thinking are more likely to eventually go into mathematics, engineering, science and technology.

The country's once excellent education system was all but destroyed by the generals, leaving generations of Burmese with poor language and numerical skills and no higher education worth the name.

Philip Wayne, headteacher of Chesham grammar school and chairman of the Buckinghamshire grammar schools, says: "We do believe the best preparation for the tests is to develop a child's ability to read with understanding and to solve problems using their numerical skills: this is what primary schools are doing with their children.

Martin Barstow, head of College of Science and Engineering, University of Leicester and member of Royal Astronomical Society Martin said: Science employers are looking for numerical skills, critical thinking and evaluation of evidence: Universities should make it clear there are not enough jobs for every PhD student to become a post-doc and eventually get an academic position.