Internet Resources for Adult Numeracy

The May 2008 issue of Focus on Basics (FOB), the quarterly newsletter of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, is a special-focus issue on numeracy and includes:

• Using Part-Whole Thinking in Math by Dorothea Steinke
• Numeracy Matters by Myrna Manly
• Designing Instruction with the Components of Numeracy in Mind by Lynda Ginsburg
• Changing Practice, Expanding Minds by Kate Nonesuch
• A Conversation with FOB, Is Math Universal -- An interview with Joanne Kantner
• Numeracy at the Downtown Learning Center by Avril DeJesus
• The Importance of Algebra for Everyone by Tricia Donovan
• TIAN: A Professional Learning Model for ABE Math Teachers by Beth Bingman and Mary Jane Schmitt
• Arizona's Professional Learning Journey Through the Teachers
• Investigating Adult Numeracy Project by Beverly Wilson and D. Roberto Morales

The September 2000 issue of Focus on Basics is a special-focus issue on math and features articles by several ANN members:

• "The New York City Math Exchange Group"
  by Charles Brover, Denise Deagan, and Solange Farina
  
• "Seeing is Believing"
  by Charles Brover, Denise Deagan, and Solange Farina
• "Making Peace in the Math Wars"
  by Kathy Safford
• "Developing Adults’ Numerate Thinking"
  by Mary Jane Schmitt

Previous issues of Focus on Basics, the quarterly newsletter of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, feature articles by ANN members:

• "The Effects of Continuing Goal-Setting on Persistence in a Math Classroom"
  by Pam Meader
• "Teaching to the Math Standards with Adult Learners"
  by Esther D. Leonelli
• "A Foundation for Learning Math"
  by Jan Phillips
• "Technology Melts Classroom Walls"
  by Susan Cowles
• "Reconceptualizing Roles: Mathematics and Reading"
  by Mary Jane Schmitt
• "Conversation with FOB: Transitions and Math"
  by Lynda Ginsburg, Myrna Manly, Pam Meader, Linda Murphy and Mary Jane Schmitt