Educator Growth and PD
Self-Study Tools & Guides
- Mathematics Proficiency Guide for Teachers of Adult Education
- Targeting Professional Learning in Math, related to the MA ABE Professional Standards and the Mathematics Proficiency Guide
- Mathematics Professional Standards Self-Evaluation Tool
- Math “What to Look for” Guides
- The Learner Variability Project Self-Study Guide
- Math Scope and Sequence Template
- Math Unit Plan Template
- Math Lesson Plan Template
- Companion Document for Math Lesson Plan Template
- Developing Instructional Units: Applying What Students Learn
- Teaching Algebraic Notation
PD Resources
- Back to School Math Resource List (Massachusetts only – Math PD opportunities and engaging instructional materials and strategies)
- Literacy Minnesota Online Training Repository
Recommended Books and Articles
- Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
- Adult Numeracy Development: Theory, Research, Practice (2000)
- Algebraic Thinking in Adult Education
- Components of Numeracy
- Designing Instruction with the Components of Numeracy
- A Lesson Planning Framework That Leads to Productive Struggle
- Mathematics in Context: The Pedagogy of Liberation
- The PIAAC Numeracy Framework: A Guide to Instruction
- Using the PIAAC Numeracy Framework to Guide Instruction: An Introduction for Adult Educators (2017)
- Teachers Investigating Adult Numeracy (TIAN) in Action: Teachers’ Stories
- The Teaching Gap
- Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students
- TEAL Math Works Guide
- What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Benefits Everyone
Grow Your Conceptual Understanding
Division, Fraction Strips, and Number Lines
- A Deep Dive into Teaching Division
- Using Fraction Strips
- Creating Fraction Strips
- 5 Great Reasons to Teach Number Lines
Teaching Tools
- Modeling Benchmark Percents and Fractions
- Problem Based Learning Resources
- Project Based Learning Resources
- Integrating TSTM into CALM Math Classes
- Defining the Skills That Matter: Adapted for MATH
Classroom Videos
EMPower
- EMPower website
- EMPower video: Identifying Lesson Content
- College and Career Readiness (CCR) Standards and EMPower Materials Alignment
Standards
Resources for College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRSAE) – Mathematics
- Overview Grid of CCRSAE for Adult Education
- College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (Math Excerpt)
- College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (Mathematics): A Short Exploration
- College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (Mathematics): A Short Exploration – SPANISH SUBTITLES
- Fractions through the Levels Chart
- Visualizing Number Lines through the CCRSAE
Research
Research on Student Perspectives
- Adult Learners’ Reported Use of Mathematics in Their Current and Future Lives – based on interviews with adult education students in Cambridge MA
- What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics
Research Related to Instruction
- Building on Foundations for Success: Guidelines for Improving Adult Mathematics Instruction – includes sections on mathematics instruction and the goals of adult learners; instructional strategies; and teacher preparation
- The PIAAC Numeracy Framework: A Guide to Instruction
- Seeing as Understanding: The Importance of Visual Mathematics for Our Brain and Learning
Research on the Big Picture
- Adults Learning Mathematics (ALM) International Research Forum
- Adult Numeracy and Its Assessment in the ALL Survey: A Conceptual Framework and Pilot Results
- Adult Numeracy: Review of Research and Related Literature
- Adult Numeracy: A Reader. Four Papers from CAAL’s January 2011 Roundtable on Adult Numeracy
- The Inclusion of Numeracy in Adult Basic Education