Publisher's Synopsis
Adult Ed Math: Geometry
This adult education math book is designed to help learners prepare for the CASAS, TABE 11 & 12, HiSET, and GED exams. The book utilizes Singapore math reasoning methods and follows specific standards to help adult education programs and their learners understand core math concepts that meet the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) expectations.For easy learning and teaching, the book is divided into five (5) main chapters that cover the following topics:
Geometric shapes and their attributes
- Geometric measurement and dimensions
- Trigonometry
- Relating area to the operations of multiplication and addition
- Drawing and identifying lines and angles
- Graphing points on coordinate planes
- Congruence
- Pythagorean Theorem
The chapters include mathematical thinking, reasoning, key concepts, and terminology. Each chapter is divided into several sections.
Each section includes a list of key geometry terminologies and concepts that students should understand to be successful in their exams.
- Each section provides step-by-step instructions that learners can easily follow, along with a practice exercise of ten questions.
- The practice exercises include 2-step and 3-step-problems that require mathematical thinking and reasoning. They take various formats such as multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blanks, matching, ordering, and drawing or plotting. Answer keys are given at the end of each section.
- At the end of each chapter, learners are given 10 complex or multi-step word problems that summarize the sections' content. The problems require students to understand all the content to solve them.
- The last chapter also includes 15 complex word problems that cover content from all the previous chapters.
To summarize, this resource allows math instructors to guide and provide learners with concise explanations, step-by-step instructions, and sufficient practice to master math concepts.
