The Cost of Mathematical Illiteracy: Review of <em>Innumeracy in the Wild</em> by Ellen Peters (2020)

In Innumeracy in the Wild (Oxford University Press, 2020), Ellen Peters, a researcher decision science, persuasively argues that numeracy skills, numeric confidence, and our intuitive sense for numbers impact lifelong outcomes health wellbeing. Peters draws from research real-world examples to show how daily life innumerate people is different of numerate makes practical recommendations on improving we communicate numerical information.