{"id":515,"date":"2021-03-04T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/?page_id=515"},"modified":"2021-10-26T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:59:43","slug":"adults-reaching-algebra-readiness-ar2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/our-projects\/adults-reaching-algebra-readiness-ar2\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults Reaching Algebra Readiness (AR)2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"AdultsReachingAlgebraReadiness(AR)2-Whatis(AR)2?\">What is (AR)<sup>2<\/sup>?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/10\/ARAR_logo_final_graph_big_web.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1634\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Adults Reaching Algebra Readiness<\/em>&nbsp;series builds upon the content presented in Adult Numeracy lnstruction (ANI) professional development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(AR)<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;begins with a review of linear functions, including in-out tables, equations, and graphs and progresses to systems of equations, always relating to real-life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activities then build from linear functions to nonlinear functions and explorations with exponents. Geometry concepts are explored as ways to apply algebraic reasoning in real-life contexts, including both linear and nonlinear examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the sessions, we continue to connect to basic number properties which are the focus on the College and Career Readiness Standards and other core ideas introduced in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/terc.edu\/tian\" target=\"_blank\">Teachers Investigating Adult Numeracy (TIAN)&nbsp;<\/a>and ANI, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Four Big Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Math as Communication<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Math as Connections<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">All Strands of Math at All Levels<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">A New Definition of Math Proficiency&nbsp;<\/strong>(conceptual understanding, adaptive reasoning, procedural fluency, strategic competence, and productive disposition)<br><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\"><br><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why (AR)<sup>2<\/sup>?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The jobs of the 21st century will, at a minimum, require an associate&#8217;s degree or better. For students to meet these challenges, and with the release of the Career and College Readiness Standards, higher level math skills are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than 5% of adult education teachers were math majors in college, and many, at best, only completed up to algebra when they were students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both our students and our teachers need strategies to understand these higher level math demands at both the conceptual and algebraic level. (AR)<sup>2<\/sup>helps prepare teachers to meet these challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"AdultsReachingAlgebraReadiness(AR)2-OverarchingObjectivesof(AR)2\"><br>Overarching Objectives of&nbsp;(AR)<sup>2<\/sup><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants in (AR)<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;will be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>turn everyday experiences into opportunities for teaching algebraic topics;<\/li><li>work with algebraic expressions\/equations in various formats: verbal model, input\/output tables, graphs and equations;<\/li><li>solve a system of equations graphically and algebraically;<\/li><li>manipulate symbols in decontextualized problem to solve various algebraic equations;<\/li><li>make connections to the College and Career Readiness Standards;<\/li><li>use real-life problems to analyze linear and nonlinear situations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details on (AR)<sup>2<\/sup>, please&nbsp;contact&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:adultnumeracy@terc.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>adultnumeracy@terc.edu<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is (AR)2?<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Adults Reaching Algebra Readiness<\/em>&nbsp;series builds upon the content presented in Adult Numeracy lnstruction (ANI) professional development.<\/p>\n<p>(AR)2&nbsp;begins with a review of linear functions, including in-out tables, equations, and graphs and progresses to systems of equations, always relating to real-life.<\/p>\n<p>Activities then build from linear functions to nonlinear functions and explorations with exponents. Geometry concepts are explored as ways to apply algebraic reasoning in real-life contexts, including both linear and nonlinear examples.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/our-projects\/adults-reaching-algebra-readiness-ar2\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":513,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions\/1635"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}