Where school libraries in both elementary and middle schools, working with local partners, try to tackle numeracy issues in lower-income communities nationwide, where low levels of numeracy (and literacy) are impacting on people’s lives.
Civic groups in red-pilled states want oft-morally corrupt lawmakers to persuade businesses to fund more numeracy hubs to reduce the high rate of poverty among nonwhite families.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)