Socioeconomic status, diet, and recurrent severe asthma exacerbations in Puerto Rican youth by Kristina Gaietto, MD MPH, Yueh-Ying Han, PhD, Franziska J. Rosser, MD, MPH, Edna Acosta-Pérez, PhD, Erick Forno, MD, MPH, Glorisa Canino, PhD, Juan C. Celedón, MD, DrPH, FAAAAI

“…Further, persistence of low parental numeracy level, low household income, and an unhealthy diet were each associated with persistent recurrent SAEs. …”
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Alternatives to low birthweight as a population-level indicator of infant and child health by Daneeta Hennessy, Siranda Torvaldsen, Jason P Bentley, Jennifer R Bowen, Helen A Moore, Christine L Roberts

“…Results: Of 1 093 765 singleton live births, 47 946 (4.4%) infants were low birthweight and had poorer outcomes than well-grown term infants (2.7% vs. 0.1% infant mortality; 13% vs. 6% below national minimum numeracy standard). SGA and preterm infants also had poorer outcomes (0.5%, 2.3% infant mortality respectively; 10%, 11% below numeracy standard) but 80% of SGA and 47% of preterm infants were not low birthweight. …”
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School-age outcomes among IVF-conceived children: A population-wide cohort study. by Amber L Kennedy, Beverley J Vollenhoven, Richard J Hiscock, Catharyn J Stern, Susan P Walker, Jeanie L Y Cheong, Jon L Quach, Roxanne Hastie, David Wilkinson, John McBain, Lyle C Gurrin, Vivien MacLachlan, Franca Agresta, Susan P Baohm, Stephen Tong, Anthea C Lindquist

“…The second, educational outcome at age 7 to 9, was assessed using National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) data (n = 342,311) and defined by overall z-score across 5 domains (grammar and punctuation, reading, writing, spelling, and numeracy). …”
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ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN NUMERASI SISWA SMP DALAM MENYELESAIKAN SOAL TIPE ASESMEN KOMPETENSI MINIMUM (AKM) by Wahyu Linda Setianingsih, Arta Ekayanti, Jumadi Jumadi

“…All students of class VII E were given a numeracy ability test using AKM type questions. Furthermore, four students were taken as interview subjects who had good communication skills based on the teacher's recommendations and who met the indicators of numeracy ability. …”
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EFFECTIVE TEACHING : Evidence and Practice / by Muijs, Daniel, author, Reynolds, David, 1949-, author

Predictors of mathematical attainment trajectories across the primary-to-secondary education transition: parental factors and the home environment by Danielle Evans, Andy P. Field

“…A ‘maths crisis’ has been identified in the UK, with many adults and adolescents underachieving in maths and numeracy. This poor performance is likely to develop from deficits in maths already present in childhood. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Numeral Systems of Ígálà , Yoruba, German and English by Gideon S. Omachonu

“…Incorporating insights from optimality theory, the paper argues that even though numeracy and the constraints that ensure well-formedness of numerals are somewhat universal, parametric variations abound. …”
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The persistence of common-ratio effects in multiple-play decisions by Michael L. DeKay, Dan R. Schley, Seth A. Miller, Breann M. Erford, Jonghun Sun, Michael N. Karim, Mandy B. Lanyon

“…Our primary results were not reliably affected by prompts that encouraged a long-run perspective, by participants' insight into long-run payoffs, or by participants' numeracy. The persistence of common-ratio effects suggests that the oft-cited benefits of multiple plays for the rationality of decision makers' choices may be smaller than previously realized.…”
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The link between cognitive abilities and risk preference depends on measurement by Sebastian Olschewski, Jörg Rieskamp, Ralph Hertwig

“…In self-report measures, we found small but consistent positive correlations between working memory capacity/numeracy, facets of cognitive abilities, and risk tolerance. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Numeral Systems of Ígálà, Yoruba, German and English by Gideon S. Omachonu

“…Incorporating insights from optimality theory, the paper argues that even though numeracy and the constraints that ensure well-formedness of numerals are somewhat universal, parametric variations abound. …”
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Skill deficits among foreign-educated immigrants: Evidence from the U.S. PIAAC. by Jason Richwine

“…Standardized tests administered as part of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies reveal that foreign-educated immigrants score 0.82 and 0.54 standard deviations lower on measures of literacy and numeracy, respectively, compared to natives who have the same age and educational attainment. …”
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Improving Reading and Calculation Ability through Audio Visuals Media in Indonesian Elementary School Student with Slow Learner: A Literature Study by Fiolina Hana Puspitasari, Ediyanto, Mohammad Efendi, Asep Sunandar

“…The use of audio-visual media is able to have a positive influence on the reading and numeracy skills of students with slow learners.…”
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Analysis of the Statistical Literacy Ability of Sociology Education Students by Nur Hasanah Syarief, Maria Martini Aba, Ryan Nizar Zulfikar

“…The research results show that more than 50% of students can fulfill statistical literacy competencies such as understanding statistical concepts, numeracy, interpretation, and communication skills. …”
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Setting Them Up To Fail by David Allan

“…Although the vocational route can lead to a nationally recognised qualification, literacy and numeracy achievements are often below the expected standard, thus creating a mismatch in identified abilities. …”
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Public Preschool Predicts Stronger Third-Grade Academic Skills by Anna D. Johnson, Anne Partika, Anne Martin, Ian Lyons, Sherri Castle, Deborah A. Phillips

“…Both school-based pre-K and Head Start attenders outperformed preschool nonattenders on numeracy in third grade. There was weaker evidence of a sustained preschool advantage on language and literacy skills, and no evidence that associations differed by preschool program.…”
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A Share in the Future . . . Only for Those Who Become Like ‘Us’!: Challenging the ‘Standardisation’ Reform Approach to Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory by David Spillman

“…This paper offers a brief exposition of this review, highlighting how an exclusive focus on comparative statistics and standardised testing of English literacy and numeracy works to maintain the coupling of ‘Indigenous’ and ‘deficit’, reifying colonial power relations and justifying technical and bureaucratic educational approaches, administered and monitored from afar. …”
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Introduction: Issues in North Queensland Indigenous Education by Anna Shnukal

“…Queensland - and Australia - can no longer afford the incalculable waste of intellectual and cultural capital and the dilution of participatory democracy which resulted from the pre-1980s requirement that Indigenous people be instructed only in basic literacy and numeracy. As Martin Nakata writes in this issue, "English literacy and understanding the world beyond our communities, beyond our local and cultural context, is as critically important for our future survival as understanding our traditional pathways. …”
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Subjective expectations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi by Adeline Delavande, Hans-Peter Kohler

“…In this paper we present a newly-developed interactive elicitation methodology to collect probabilistic expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we evaluate the feasibility and success of this method for a wide range of outcomes in rural Malawi. …”
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Dot cards application development to improve counting ability 1-10 students with medium intellectual disability by Asri Dwi Puspasari, Sunardi Sunardi, Subagya Subagya

“…The purpose of this research was to produce learning media, namely a dot cards application to improve the numeracy skills of student with medium intellectual disability. …”
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Participatory action research as a strategy for empowering Aboriginal health workers by Rosalind Hecker

“…The three main factors preventing Aboriginal health workers from attaining a key role within the health service are the standard of training they receive, their low literacy and numeracy levels, and their lack of participation in decision making within the health service. …”
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