Math & Numeracy Teaching Resources
This page has non-routine math problems, lesson plans, math activities, virtual manipulatives, digital math instruction, and more!
ANN TEACHING AND LEARNING PRINCIPLES
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Curriculum
A high quality mathematics curriculum for adult learners should:
- include the concepts of number, data, geometry, and algebra at all levels of learning so that students can develop and connect mathematical ideas.
- weave together all the elements of mathematical proficiency – not only procedural fluency, but also conceptual understanding, ongoing sense-making, problem solving, and a positive attitude about learning mathematics.
- feature worthwhile tasks, such as activities that are drawn from the context of real life experience.
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Learning Environment
In an adult education learning environment, mathematics instruction should:
- build on what students already know, valuing the various informal and alternative strategies students use to solve problems.
- include opportunities for students to question, reason, solve problems, define goals and monitor their own progress by using estimation, mental math, computation, and technology when appropriate.
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Open Middle Problems Open Middle is an incredible source of math problems that can be searched by topic and/or grade level K-12. What makes an "open middle" problem? All the problems on the site have a closed beginning because they start with the same initial problem. Most have a closed ending, because they end with the same answer (though there are some problems here that have more than one answer). They all have an open middle, because there are multiple ways to approach each problem. The problem to the left is an example of a middle school level task.
Learn more about using Open Middle with adult education students:
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Play With Your Math This website was created by two teachers in Massachusetts, who take problems that they love, and adapt them so that they are accessible to everyone. They design posters and handouts that hook you visually and explain the problem in just enough words. The problems that they pick require trying, struggling, failing, adjusting, and trying again until, finally, a discovery is made.
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Math MemosAdult educators share non-routine math problems, samples of student work, and practical suggestions for bringing the problems to life in your classroom. 
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Math for Love
Dan Finkel and Katherine Cook are a husband and wife team dedicated to transforming how math is taught. The Math for Love site has a huge collection of Openers, Games, Rich Tasks and lessons. Click on the image with the multicolored circles. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
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LOOKING FOR LESSON PLANS & ACTIVITIES? - CollectEdNY: Find free, quality teaching resources vetted and reviewed by adult education instructors, for adult education instructors. Post comments, share experiences and ask questions and engage with adult educators across the state and country.
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CUNY HSE Math Framework: The CUNY HSE Math Curriculum Framework focuses on Problem-Solving in Functions & Algebra. It integrates problem-solving strategies, productive struggle, perseverance and mathematical discussion into content learning. It has model lessons, rich engaging math problems, samples of student work, and more. CUNY Framework Posts: Framework Posts gathers HSE and ABE lessons, problems, activities, & readings organized by math subjects, domains & subdomains.
- Open Up Resources: comprehensive 6-8 and HS math curricula, organized into helpful units with lots of rich problems. Available in both English and Spanish.
- OER Commons: OER stands for Open Educational Resources and refers to resources developed by teachers and shared freely. This website is a place for teachers to find (and share!) teaching materials. This link will bring you to the search engine set for "Math" and "Adult Education" materials.
- Benchmark Fractions: This interactive and online sequence of activities comes from Connie Rivera's website and allows students to develop a conceptual understanding of benchmark fractions (25%, 75%, 10%, and more) through a series of interactive activities and visuals.
MULTIPLICATION RESOURCES
- The Multiplication Course by Steve Wyborney is a highly interactive multiplication course – free on YouTube – created by the teacher behind SPLAT! The videos are completely ready for all students, all teachers, all parents, everyone! The course teaches students deep, rich, and important multiplication concepts while they are also learning multiplication facts. It also puts students in control of their learning, allowing them to pause the think deeply, allowing them time to write, allowing them to discover important math ideas.
- The Product Game turns students' practice with factors and multiples into a fun two-player game.
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- How Close to 100? - Using 2 dice and arrays students compete to cover as much of a blank 100 grid as they can.
- Partial Product Finder - The Partial Product Finder allows multiplication combinations (up to 50 x 50) to be represented as a rectangle, or array. This helps students develop the flexibility and conceptual understanding required to build fluency with basic facts and strategies for multiplication of larger numbers.
- Multiplication Representation Cards - Use these cards to get students into groups by matching cards with different representations of multiplication (area models, word problems, partial products, and distributive property).
- Fizz Buzz Hoot - This game is guaranteed to crack up your class as they have to keep track of the 3, 4, and 5 times table as they count in a circle.
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- Nix the Tricks: This free online book is filled with alternatives to the shortcuts so prevalent in mathematics education and explains why tricks so often become obstacles to understanding math and often contribute to our students believing they are incapable of sense-making.
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