If you have ever had an adult learner ask, “When am I ever going to use this?”—or if you simply want to make room for richer, real-world discussions in your math classroom—you will love Citizen Math.
Continue reading Citizen Math: Using Math to Explore the World
Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (BeCALM) Remote-Ready Curriculum for Beginning Math Students (GLE 2–4) series
BeCALM (Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math) contains remote-ready units for adult learners who need math instruction at beginning levels (GLE 2-4).
Adults who are beginning math learners sometimes find themselves left behind by high school equivalency curricula, or stuck trying to memorize their way through calculations they don’t understand. What will help these learners is a conceptually-focused, cognitively rigorous curriculum that supports them in developing number and operation sense. Number sense is the ability to break down and recombine numbers in useful ways, based on a conceptual understanding of how numbers work. Developing number sense can help beginning learners improve their mathematical fluency without memorization, while building a solid foundation for later study.
Continue reading Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (BeCALM)A reminder that data and statistical literacy are skills necessary on the high school equivalency exams as well as our lives. The CUNY Slow Reveal Graph Collection has over a hundred graphs rendered with a slow reveal treatment, ready to use in class.
There have been many new additions to the collection, especially in the Immigration Slow Reveal Graphs Folder.
Continue reading Slow Reveal Graphs: Current Events
The folks at the Adult Numeracy Network (ANN) have built a webpage to help adult education teachers bring instructional routines into their math classes.
All of the Instructional Routines in the ANN collection:
At the time of this review, there were supports for bringing the following 36 instructional routines into your classroom:
Continue reading Instructional Routines: A Powerful Tool for Adult Education Math ClassroomsIn Spring of 2021, the Central Office team of professional developers for the CUNY Adult Literacy Program invited students in all of its English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and High School Equivalency (HSE) classes to submit writing in response to the prompt: “My Pandemic Year.”
Students at all levels responded with poems and short essays about their experiences. Beginning ESL students wrote cinquains (short five-line poems) to capture their experiences. Intermediate ESL students wrote short essays and HSE students often wrote longer ones.
The student writing here reflects the loneliness, stress, and loss so many of us felt during this extraordinary time. People lost jobs, health, and companionship. Some had to cope with crowded conditions and the tension of too many family members inhabiting a small space, while others suffered from isolation. Parents had to become teachers. One student, a health care worker, saw the ravages of COVID-19 firsthand. There was constant uncertainty, and lots of fear.
Each person coped with the challenges of the pandemic in their own way. Some took the opportunity to focus more fully on their studies. Others learned to bake vegan desserts, developed their spiritual lives, or took up pole dancing. Many writers testified that the pandemic changed their approaches to life–now it was about focusing on themselves and what they really wanted in life.
Continue reading CUNY Students Speak: My Pandemic Year