Math

The Adult Education Teachers' Place
Offers resources for teaching math at all levels. This space is not only for teachers, but has also been built in part by teachers.

Adult Numeracy Instruction: A New Approach
This guide provides resources, curriculum principles and activities for adult mathematical literacy.

NIFL Special Collection: Numeracy
This collection of activities offers interactive math lessons on subjects such as basic math concepts, money matters and fractions.

Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices
Entranced, perhaps, by those infamous hypothetical trains, many educators in recent years have incorporated more and more examples from the real world to teach abstract concepts. The idea is that making math more relevant makes it easier to learn.

Learning Mathematics with Virtual Manipulatives
A popular approach to help students understand abstract concepts is the use of manipulatives. Manipulatives enable students and teachers to represent concretely the abstract concepts that they are learning in mathematics class and to link these concepts to prior knowledge.

The Enemy of My Enemy
An article by Steven Strogatz of Cornell University about subtraction.

How Adults Learn Basic Math
This article explains how adults learn math and offers practitioners suggestions on how to use that information to help students succeed.

Literacy and Numeracy Studies, An International Journal in the Education and Training of Adults
This 2009 journal is published by the University of Technology Sydney.

Add & Subtract Integers Fact Sheet

Multiply & Divide Integers Fact Sheet

Integers: Operations with Signed Numbers

Distributive Property
A video about the distributive property of multiplication.

Finger Trick for Multiplication
Times Table 6-10

Subtracting Integers
A video to review essential concepts and procedures of subtraction.

Tic Tac Toe Math, an Instructional Guide

Changing the Way We Teach Math: A Manual for Basic Math to Adults
Introduces teaching practices that are in line with recommendations from research literature on teaching numeracy to adults.

More Complicated Than It Seems - A Review of Literacy About Adult Numeracy Instruction
This review is for adult numeracy practitioners and concentrates on topics related to instructional methods.

Math You Can Really Use - Every Day
Real world examples such as figuring how much to tip, getting the best deals, computing gas mileage and many more are presented in this easy to use guide.

The Components of Numeracy
This paper describes the nature of numeracy and helps to guide instruction.

Using the Internet in Support of GED Math Instruction
This online course explores technology-based resources and offers a five session lesson including a general overview, problem solving, algebra, data analysis and geometry.

SABES Math Bulletin
This publication is part of a three year math project highlighting research and resources for math instruction for adults.