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Learning Project Analysis to Assess Levels

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Determining learners’ educational functioning levels utilizes the guidelines by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) with approved standardized testing means. The program at the Community College of Allegheny County utilizes the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) to assess learners. Learners’ who are able to function at the fourth, fifth and early sixth grade levels in mathematics are the focus of this learning project. The intent of this six-week, seventy-two hour learning experience will address one of the most difficult aspects that experiences shows are baffling and confusing to adult learners – fractions, decimals, proportions and ratios.
This multi-phase learning project is intended to provide incremental instruction in various aspects of numeracy for students who possess the fundamentally capabilities associated with their educational functioning but are innumerate when attempting to apply these fundamental abilities to the dominion of fractions, decimals, ratios and proportions. Goals of the learning project include but are not limited to the following:
 Introduce learners to the language of fractions, decimals, proportions and ratios
 Assist learners to become knowledgeable with the synergetic relationship between these four basic principles.
 Enable learners to become conversant in the language associated with these mathematical principals
 Guide them through the process of applying basic arithmetic abilities to the province of
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