Level 2 expands our focus to add numeracy. Numeracy is quantitative reasoning or quantitative literacy. Basically, applying critical thinking to numeric communications. These analytical thinking skills enable us to make meaning our of numeric information. The information can be presented in text form or using tools like pie charts, line charts, bar graphs, tables, and maps.

Analysis, interpretation, and numeracy are vital skills, given the volume of quantitative information education, business, consumer marketing, and the media today.

When you complete this Skill Builder, you will receive onscreen your Personal Feedback – Overall score, and scores on three specifics: Analyzing Data Displays, Interpreting Data Displays, and Seeing Data Implications. You will be able to download a PDF copy of the feedback, which includes a summary of key ideas, along with your scores in each area.

Skill Builders are interactive personal development tools. Use the questions, debriefs, insights, exercises, thought experiments, and explanations to strengthen your critical thinking, solve problems more effectively, and make better, more reflective, decisions.