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Download full textDondertman, 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
Dalbera, Claude – 1990
In order not to waste the time of the people working hard and sacrificing to become literate, literacy must offer them a real opportunity to change their life situation. Although many literacy programs are designed to fit the everyday lives and situations of their students, the same is not true for programs that teach arithmetic. Most adults…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Arithmetic
Trusiak, Virginia – 1995
This document contains the lesson plans for a 12-week course in basic workplace math that was developed for clothing and textile workers through the joint efforts of Northeastern Illinois University's Chicago Teachers' Center and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. A chart for recording students' mastery of 25 course objectives is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Lord Fairfax Community Coll., Middletown, VA. – 1993
This curriculum includes outlines for a series of professional readiness courses designed to improve the various basic skills required of hospital personnel. The first eight sections consist of course outlines/materials on the following topics: user-friendly arithmetic, user-friendly fractions, user-friendly algebra, problem solving through…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Skills
PDF pending restorationGoschen, 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
Gal, Iddo, Ed. – 2000
This book contains 16 papers on the theory, research, and practice of adult numeracy development. The following papers are included: "The Numeracy Challenge" (Iddo Gal); "Numeracy, Mathematics, and Adult Learning" (Diane Coben); "Building a Problem-Solving Environment for Teaching Mathematics" (Peter Kloosterman, Bin Hassan Mohamad-Ali, Lynda R.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
