Therefore, there is a section on adults' feeling and attitudes about math, titled Competence and Self-Confidence. Much more work and reflection remains. This is merely the beginning and we invite you to be a part of it. Number and Number Sense 2. Math takes on greater meaning and understanding when it is directly applied in the workplace or in real-life situations.
Many adult learners feel that their best math situation was when they learned math at work.
This sug-gests that the math they learned on the job was directly applicable for them. Adults see little relevance or connections between math and their every-day living and working conditions. Adults feel they are more successful when they are able to link any new learning to something they already know. Textbook math, and particularly word problems, seem to have liffle relevance to what adults perceive as math in everyday life. Adults's real math skills often don't show when they do meaningless word problems.