Talk:Numeracy

Article Review
This article is a little trustworthy, very biased, a little complete, somewhat well-written, and quite accurate. This article makes claims without sufficient citations to support them. Also, the consequences of numeracy are outlined. It would be beneficial to delve into their significance in far more detail. The article should also include ways to improve numeracy, along with a deeper explanation of the root cause of innumeracy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.61.244 (talk) 19:31, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello, and thanks for the review. Could you point out the exact parts that are biased? (And even better, could you fix some of them?) If you could do this it would be very helpful. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 23:32, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The article is biased to the idea that innumeracy is due to environmental factors. No mention is made of genetic factors that might affect mathematical reasoning. Robotczar (talk) 19:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Addition to Innumeracy
Just a suggest to the heading entitled "Innumeracy," possible statistics or examples could be added to better illustrate the concepts explained for the layperson. For example, the author of the book, "The Science of Fear," Daniel Gardner provides great examples of how incompetent people are with numbers, statistics, and proportions. On chapter 5, page 95, he describes when people were given the hypothetical situation of saving lives, they would rather save 98% of 150 people, than to save 150 people. This is a great example of how the proportion 98% is ingrained as a high percentage and takes initiative when people are faced with questions involving numbers. 98% of 150 or 147 people is obviously less than 150 people and therefore demonstrates how people misinterpret numbers. Another example that could be used, specifically towards the information of Gambler's Fallacy is presented in Gardner's book on page 97. He states that because a coin has "come up heads five times in a row," those with the belief of Gambler's Fallacy believe that it is more likely that tails will come up on the next roll. Once again, these are just a few thoughts that could improve the article of Numeracy and help readers understand of the concept of numeracy better through specific examples of the opposite disability, Innumeracy.

Mr. Anders (talk) 23:02, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Just a few articles that I found which discuss the topic of numeracy, these may be helpful when creating a more informative page towards Numeracy.

Kleemans, T., Peeters, M., Segers, E., & Verhoeven, L. (2012). Child and home predictors of early numeracy skills in kindergarten. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.12.004

Ciampa, P. J., Osborn, C. Y., Peterson, N. B., & Rothman, R. L. (2010). Patient numeracy, perceptions of provider communication, and colorectal cancer screening utilization. Journal Of Health Communication, 15(Suppl 3), 157-168. doi:10.1080/10810730.2010.522699

Hess, R., Visschers, V. M., & Siegrist, M. (2011). Risk communication with pictographs: The role of numeracy and graph processing. Judgment And Decision Making, 6(3), 263-274.

Donelle, L., Hoffman-Goetz, L., & Arocha, J. F. (2007). Assessing health numeracy among community-dwelling older adults. Journal Of Health Communication, 12(7), 651-665. doi:10.1080/10810730701619919

Gardner, P. H., McMillan, B., Raynor, D. K., Woolf, E., & Knapp, P. (2011). The effect of numeracy on the comprehension of information about medicines in users of a patient information website. Patient Education And Counseling, 83(3), 398-403. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2011.05.006

Golbeck, A., Paschal, A., Jones, A., & Hsiao, T. (2011). Correlating reading comprehension and health numeracy among adults with low literacy. Patient Education And Counseling, 84(1), 132-134. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2010.05.030

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Galesic, M. (2011). Using plausible group sizes to communicate information about medical risks. Patient Education And Counseling, 84(2), 245-250. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2010.07.027

Hess, R., Visschers, V. M., Siegrist, M., & Keller, C. (2011). How do people perceive graphical risk communication? The role of subjective numeracy. Journal Of Risk Research, 14(1), 47-61. doi:10.1080/13669877.2010.488745

Keller, C., & Siegrist, M. (2009). Effect of risk communication formats on risk perception depending on numeracy. Medical Decision Making, 29(4), 483-490. doi:10.1177/0272989X09333122

Purpura, D. J., Hume, L. E., Sims, D. M., & Lonigan, C. J. (2011). Early literacy and early numeracy: The value of including early literacy skills in the prediction of numeracy development. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, 110(4), 647-658. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.07.004

Mr. Anders (talk) 16:44, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Age
The Age paragraph discusses numeracy in youth; I would like to suggest that you also include the effects of aging on numeracy (or numerical) skills. I have an octogenarian aunt with dementia who is losing her numeracy skills (i.e., cannot balance a checkbook anymore). Whether that is merely a factor of the dementia or whether there is an age component in losing numeracy as we grow older, it would be helpful to include this point in the article.

Thanks!

66.117.203.158 (talk) 17:21, 29 August 2013 (UTC)James T. Turner

Redirect from Mathematical literacy
I've just noticed the redirect to here from mathematical literacy. Is it just temporary? Certainly math literacy is not limited to number sense or numeracy, it is much more! Thoughts?--5.2.200.163 (talk) 11:29, 7 October 2016 (UTC)