From Literacy to Maps via Numeracy

En route to a comprehensive literature review of map literacy in the next chapter, we come at the subject with an arc through “quantitative literacy,” the term by which numeracy is more generally known in the United States. Our goal in this targeted review of numeracy and quantitative literacy is to build a directed concept chain – namely, literacy → numeracy → quantitative literacy → graph literacy → graphicacy → maps – the next step of which is map literacy.