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Making Number Make Sense: Exploring Strategies to Convey
Quantity, Time, and Risk
Helen Osborne, M.Ed., OTR/LHealth Literacy Consulting
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“Mrs. Jones is on a modified diet and must restrict her intake of both sweet and salted foods. She takes six different medications, each with its own dosing schedule. She needs to monitor and record how she feels each day and notify her providers when there are significant changes in her health. She also needs to make and keep numerous outpatient appointments and prepare for an ongoing battery of medical tests.”
What numeracy tasks do we expect that Mrs. Jones can, and will correctly, do?
“Mrs. Jones is on a modified diet and must restrict her intake of both sweet and salted foods. She takes six different medications, each with its own dosing schedule. She needs to monitor and record how she feels each day and notify her providers when there are significant changes in her health. She also needs to make and keep numerous outpatient appointments and prepare for an ongoing battery of medical tests.”
Quantity & Calculations
http://www.sugarstacks.com/
Visual Comparisons
Portions: About the Size of… 1 oz. meat Matchbox3 oz. meat Deck of cards or soap bar8 oz. meat Thin paperback book
1 oz. cheese 4 diceMedium potato Computer mouse
2 Tbs. peanut butter Ping pong ball½ cup pasta Tennis ball
Average bagel Hockey puck
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_3_2x_Portion_Control.asp
Wong Baker Faces Pain Scale
http://www.painknowledge.org/physiciantools/opioid_toolkit/components/Wong-Baker_Scale.pdf
DoloTest: Providing a clear picture of painwww.dolotest.com
100 + 100.2 + 102 =
100 100.2
+102
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Time
Analog or Digital?
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/pillcard/pillcard.htm#Template
AHRQ’s Pill Card Template
Passage of time
Risk & Comparative Data
“Pie” chart
“Doughnut” chart
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