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Steinke, Dorothea Arne – Journal of Adult Education, 1999
Interviews with 12 adults in General Educational Development classes, four adults in basic math, and 22 preservice teachers assessed their understanding of the part-whole concept, a key element in math success. Gaps in understanding were found in all three groups. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Mathematical Aptitude, Number Concepts
Haacke, Frank; van Duin, Simone; de Laat, Mieke – 1997
This document presents information on open learning environments in Adult Basic Education in The Netherlands. It focuses on the role of teacher, tutorial, progress, and evaluation methods. Several task groups address the four dimensions in a learning environment: accommodation, time, infrastructural, and social psychological. Through independent…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Computation, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries
Dondertman, Betty; Ciancone, Tom – 1991
This numeracy package, which is intended for use by facilitators in group or tutoring situations, consists of materials designed to help adult literacy students understand number systems, appreciate the different roles that numbers play in daily life, and gain the confidence needed to work with numbers in everyday situations. Part 1, which…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
Basic Skills Agency, London (England). – 1997
An international numeracy scale compared how well adults in seven countries--the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, Australia, and Denmark--handled some basic tasks involving numbers. The questionnaire comprised a set of 12 numeracy tasks that respondents were asked to complete using pen and paper. Within each country, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic, Basic Skills
Cooper, Richard – 1994
This guide contains a collection of alternative techniques for teaching arithmetic that have proved useful in teaching both children and adults with various learning problems. Discussed first are several underlying principles of instructing individuals with learning disabilities, problems, and differences and special accommodations for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Marr, Beth; And Others – 1994
This document, which was developed to meet the needs of trainers and workers in Australia's automotive industry for learning activities designed to boost auto workers' numeracy skills, contains a total of 33 learning activities organized into 8 sections. The topics covered in the individual sections are as follows: calculators (key words and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arithmetic, Calculators
Markus, Nancy L. – 1996
This document compiles an "honest list" of what is needed for adult numeracy. The first section consolidates the four posited Massachusetts Adult Basic Education (ABE) Math Standards into three adult numeracy themes: relevance/connections, problem solving/reasoning/decision making, and communication. A discussion of each theme is followed by some…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Skills
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Swain, Jon – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2005
This article reports research findings from a 21-month empirical project called "Making Numeracy Teaching Meaningful to Adult Learners," which was funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). It looks at motivations behind adult learners returning to study numeracy in three FE colleges, and finds…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Smith, Catherine DeLong – 1994
This package contains student and teacher handbooks and a report summarizing a project during which the handbooks were developed as part of a numeracy education course for adult basic and literacy education students. Discussed in the project report are the following: development of the course's 7 numeracy education units, field testing of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Calculators
Ciancone, Thomas – 1991
This annotated bibliography profiles 27 print publications about and for adults whose mathematics skills are below the eighth-grade level. Entries describing the following materials are presented: 5 handbooks/guides (including an introduction to numeracy teaching, adult numeracy training pack, and manual for teaching place value); 2 publications…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Arithmetic
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Goschen, Claire – 1994
This curriculum module contains lesson plans and application activities that were developed to help adult students master the mathematics skills needed to earn a general high school equivalency diploma. Included in the module are materials designed to help students improve their understanding of mathematics and achieve the following objectives:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Algebra, Arithmetic, Behavioral Objectives
Angel, Margo; Bolton, Chris – 1996
This document is intended to help Australian technical and further education instructors in New South Wales (TAFE NSW) identify teaching principles and learning activities that they can use to help adult learners master the mathematics processes, knowledge, and skills needed to perform basic measurement tasks in today's workplace. The materials…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classroom Techniques, Estimation (Mathematics), Foreign Countries