This book introduces two ways of knowing numbers that complement and compensate for lower numeric ability and explores how numeric abilities develop and where mistakes are made. It offers a state-of-the-art review of the now sizeable body of psychological and applied findings that demonstrate the critical importance of numeracy in our world. Ellen Peters demonstrates how intervention can foster adult numeric capacity, propel people to use numeric facts in decision making, and empower those with lower numeracy to reason better.@EBSCO
Table of Contents
Section I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Types and Extent of Innumeracy -- Section II. The Objectively Innumerate -- Chapter 2. Innumeracy, Incomprehension, and Inconsistency -- Chapter 3. Reliance on Heuristics and Concrete, Easy-to-evaluate Attributes -- Chapter 4. Feelings and Frames -- Section III. The Habits of the Highly Numerate -- Chapter 5. Thinking Harder with Numbers -- Chapter 6. The Highly Numerate Understand the Feel of Numbers -- Chapter 7. Numeric Sensitivity and Consistent Use of Numbers --Chapter 8. Numerically Imperfect Reasoning among the Highly Numerate -- Section IV. Objective numeracy, life outcomes, and what we don't know -- Chapter 9. Numeracy's Secret Connection With Life Outcomes -- Chapter 10. Issues and Opportunities in Objective Numeracy Research -- Section V. The Emergence of Number Understanding -- Chapter 11. The Approximate Number System (ANS) and Discriminating Magnitudes -- Chapter 12. Genetics and Formal Education --Section VI. Two Additional Ways of Knowing Numbers -- Chapter 13. Discriminating Numbers Allows for Better Decisions -- Chapter 14. Subjective Numeracy and Knowing What You Know -- Section VII. Numbers are Just Numbers - The Impotence of Data Versus the Power of Information -- Chapter 15. Evidence-based Information Presentation Matters
Chapter 16. Provide Numbers But Reduce Cognitive Effort -- Chapter 17. Provide Evaluative Meaning And Direct Attention -- Section VIII. Becoming More Numerate
Chapter 18. Training Numeracy -- Chapter 19. Reflections on Numeracy and the Power of Reasoning Numerically -- Appendix.
