Numeracy in Adult Education

Numeracy is more than math. It's the ability to understand math concepts so that the ideas, principles and procedures can be applied to an adult learner's life and work situations. Participants will gain an understanding of the difference between teaching for discrete math skills and teaching for numeracy. They will experience and take away a sample of instructional methods and activities.

Through the online course format, you can learn at your own pace from the comfort and convenience of your own home or office. Facilitators, available to help you throughout the eight-week course, lead you through the content and technical aspects of the course.

Each week's lesson addresses a topic in adult education. Course activities include readings, assignments, and discussions. The lessons are sequential.

Lessons included in the course:

• Welcome to Numeracy
• Numbers and Number Sense
• Patterns and Algebra
• Measurement and Geometry
• Data and Statistics

Completion of the course is designed to require a minimum of 32 hours of your time; approximately four hours per week. However, you may find that you want to spend longer with some topics.

You must be currently teaching/tutoring. A requirement of the course is to deliver activities that you create during the course and you must be currently working in a classroom in order to do this.

Because the course is designed for busy professionals, it is scheduled over several weeks to allow time to work through the materials and complete the course according to your schedule.

In order to receive the certificate for participating in the Numeracy in Adult Education online course, you must complete all assignments, respond to each discussion question, and respond at least once to one of your classmates in any of the week's discussion/assignment forums.

Remember that, although you will gain from doing the activities, you will learn most from discussions with your online colleagues and facilitator. To keep our discussions as productive as possible, you must stay within the timeframe outlined for this course.

To begin your registration for this facilitated online course, please go to ERO and register for the How To Be a Good Online Learner short course. This short course serves as a prerequisite to all of our facilitated online courses and will help familiarize and prepare you for participation in our longer courses. The short course will not take much of your time and only needs to be completed once. If you have already completed the short course, return to How To Be a Good Online Learner in Blackboard to download the contract for this course to return to courses@valrc.org.