For too long, algebra has been viewed in adult education as the second most daunting math (second only to fractions), and now it is time to make algebra as approachable as adding. This resource will help you to discover some new approaches to teaching algebra as patterns, rules, equations, and lines on a graph while utilizing research-based tools, techniques, and resources learned from the Adult Numeracy Instruction – Professional Development (ANI-PD). Hands-on practice and ready-to-use resources are provided.

This series of lessons will teach all of the key features in Tinkercad, a free, web-based 3D design platform. When you have finished the lessons you will have a comprehensive knowledge of how to design/draw in 3D. After that all you need is practice to improve your skills.

This series of video screencasts will teach all of the key features in Tinkercad (a free, web-based 3D design platform). When you have finished viewing the videos you will have a comprehensive knowledge of how to design/draw in 3D.

This document features progression pathways for the development of numeracy concepts. It can be used as a quick reference to isolate children’s learning along a particular pathway and determine the next steps in learning that would move children forward along a particular pathway

The Course includes the concept of probability distribution mainly binomial, poisson and normal distribution. In this course students will understood how to solve probability distribution problems using definition and open source software's like GeoGebra and excel

This lesson is a resource created for the 2015 COABE Conference for the session Master the OER Universe! The purpose of this resource is to serve as a partially completed model of a lesson for participants to revise and remix.

This lesson introduces fractions, numerators and denominators and shows how they can be useful in everyday life.

Students will create their own graph to practice.

Students will see how the idea of a limit can be presented both in formal epsilon-delta-style terms, and using corresponding animations. After calculating a limit for a simple example function, we point out that limits do not always exist.

The first video segment presents a "freemium" business model as a motivating example. The second and third segments provide mathematical background on vectors, vector spaces, operators, and representations. Using this theoretical foundation, we solve for the dynamics of the example business using eigenvalue-eigenvector analysis.

Using the complex exponentials described in the previous video, we show how oscillating systems can be modeled using "rotation matrices." One strategy for determining whether a dynamical system supports oscillations is to look for complex eigenvectors and eigenvalues.

In this blog post and the included lesson plan, Graham Fletcher and Joe Schwartz explore thinking conceptually about the standard division algorithm. In his lesson, Joe Schwartz scaffolds long division using tape diagrams.

This is an introductory course to MATLAB, the high-performance interactive software. Topics include MATLAB Basics, Plotting, Scripts & Functions and Programming. Additional resources are also provided.

This resource may be used by any instructor teaching a similar introductory quantitative decision course.Course topics include: basic math and algebra review, trade discounts & cash discounts & markup/markdown, simple interest, review of linear systems and graphing, cost-volume-profit analysis & break-even, linear programming models, compount interest, annuities, and data visualization.Video links are spread throughout the PowerPoint slides and may be used, or removed, at the discretion of the instructor. 

This resource may be used by any instructor teaching a similar introductory quantitative decision course.Course topics include: basic math and algebra review, trade discounts & cash discounts & markup/markdown, simple interest, review of linear systems and graphing, cost-volume-profit analysis & break-even, linear programming models, compound interest, annuities, and data visualization.The attached files contain practice questions and solutions.

This lesson takes the learner through a series of exercises where the ability to understand ratios and calculate unit cost will help the learner make optimal, well-reasoned, cost-effective purchasing decisions. The target audience is the adult learner (preferably with school-age children) working in the Grade D range (6th-8th grade) and with RP Domain (Ratios and Proportional Relationships). Learners will benefit by seeing the relationship that mathematical concepts have to their everyday lives by using mathematical reasoning to make better purchasing decisions. Mastery of this material will help learners demonstrate readiness for higher-level algebraic concepts.

In the first part of this video, we derive the law of mass action from one example of a picture of molecular collisions. For this course, we use the "law of mass action" to refer to an idea that chemical reaction kinetic rates can be expressed using products of the abundances of reactants raised to exponents. Studying cooperativity and Hill functions in the second part of the video allows us to investigate a simple example of bistability in the third video segment.

Students enter our math classrooms with anxiety about performance, misconceptions about what math is, and a lack of confidence that can limit their ability to have meaningful learning experiences. In response to this challenge, Stanford researcher Jo Boaler has focused on some key tenants to help students transform their mindset to find more success with math teaching and learning. Some of these mindset shifts include recognizing that: (1) anyone can learn math, (2) making mistakes is essential to learning, (3) math is about fluency and not speed, (4) math is visual, (5) being successful in math requires creativity, flexibility, problem solving, and number sense.

In order to start building these mindsets, Boaler advocates, among other strategies, that students build a habit of being mathematical through common routines, tasks, and puzzles.

This guide will introduce 3 of those routines/puzzles including tips on how to successfully implement these tasks in a face to face, blended, or distance learning setting.

The Need
Many adult education students had difficult (and often negative) experiences with math teaching and learning during their time in the K-12 system. Without addressing their math trauma and helping them to build a mathematical mindset, our students may continue to struggle and be limited in their ability to succeed in math class, on the equivalency exam, and in college and career settings. So our program views math mindsets as the greatest challenge and largest opportunity for transforming the experience our students have when returning to school. Without this shift, we could share the best lesson plans, the most engaging OERs, and the most transformative teachers, and students will continue to be held back by self-limiting perceptions about math and about their ability to succeed.

This hands-on demonstration illustrates how GPS can be used to measure the inflation and deflation of a volcano. Volcanoes may inflate when magma rises closer to the surface and deflate when the pressure dissipates or after an eruption.

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