“[Adult learners] struggle because we don’t offer them sufficient opportunities in the classroom to develop the cognitive skills and habits of mind that would prepare them to take on more advanced academic tasks.”—Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Hammond, 2014)

How can we develop these skills and habits in our adult learners? Explore a flexible math unit that uses puzzles and questions with multiple solution paths to engage students in learning about properties of numbers and operations, the meaning of equality, and the power of place value. This unit also builds foundational concepts for algebra: specifically, it lays the groundwork for formal learning about properties, inverse operations, and solving equations. In addition, it can be easily taught in a variety of settings, including corrections programs and/or sites without internet access. Leave with access to the entire unit of instruction.

This resource is one of several reviewed by members of the Standards-in-Action Math Team using the Mathematics Resource Alignment Tool with EL Supports. A portion of the session will be dedicated to reviewing the resource’s alignment to CCR Standards and studying the tool.

Audience: ABE and pre-GED teachers

Note: This is a hybrid training. A separate Zoom link will be included in the course reminder and emailed on the morning of the training.