This is a hands-on guided lesson for relating area to factors. Students will model area of rectangles using Cheez-Its and define factors as the dimensions of the rectangles.
Students, in partners, will use an online graphing program to complete this discovery lesson. Each pair will change one component of an equation at at time and then complete a worksheet to describe the effect of the change.
This Open Education Resource (OER) book represents the beginnings of a larger work (to be appended and strengthened through cooperative efforts of instructors active within the Open Education community) to provide adult basic educators with resources to meet the needs of their students. It may be used in its entirety or individual lessons may be chosen, remixed, modified, and/or recompiled. Some of the lessons have an Instructor section that directly links the lessons with the mathematical standards for content and practice found in the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adults. Other lessons have those standards deeply embedded, if not specifically and individually stated.
Both Lori Lundine and Donna Parrish are long-time instructors in the Adult Basic Education Department of Rogue Community College and have taught many years in public secondary schools. They have worked extensively on the Oregon Adult College and Career Readiness Standards and currently serve as math consultants for Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
This is a brief Fact Sheet on Open Education Resources submitted as a part of the OER STEM Pilot for AIR
This is a PowerPoint for Adult Basic Education student usage in preparation for the 2014 Series of the GED Reasoning with mathematics test. Dealing with the basics of volume and surface area measurement, the PowerPoint may be used by students in an independent computer lab setting or it could be used as a whole class presentation. It is meant to be a stand alone assignment.