With this issue in mind, the Bank’s financial education programme for schools provides, alongside simplified reading material for students, more advanced, topic-specific Teacher’s Guides; we also have a comprehensive programme of courses for teachers. The approach must be different for museums, where the attention span of visitors is typically shorter.
Our plan is to offer visitors additional material (brochures, apps or web channels) at various points along the way for those who wish to explore an issue further. As I just mentioned, another trap to avoid is for science communicators to over-rely on previous knowledge by recipients. Numbers, and in general everything to do with statistics and mathematics, are a case in point.