Adult Numeracy Frameworks

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A Framework for Adult Numeracy Standards: The Mathematical Skills and Abilities Adults Need To Be Equipped for the Future
By Donna Curry, Mary Jane Schmitt, and Sally Waldron
The Adult Numeracy Practitioners Network System Reform Planning Project July, 1996
Funded by the National Institute for Literacy
http://literacynet.org/ann/framework.html

Methodology:

"The ultimate goal of the Adult Numeracy Practitioners Network Planning Project was to change adult numeracy education within larger reform of the ABE system. To accomplish this, two objectives had to be met. First, the project would create opportunities for teachers, stakeholders, and specifically, adult learners, to participate in the discussion of math knowledge and skills needed by adults in their roles as parents, workers, and citizens. The second objective was to develop a framework for math content standards and an initial plan for system reform around adult numeracy. This project was designed and executed with those two objectives in mind."

Separate focus groups comprised of adult learners, teachers, and stakeholders were conducted providing the data for the development of these frameworks.