The Dana Center's Foundations of Mathematical Reasoning (FMR) course is a semester-long developmental-level quantitative literacy-based course that surveys a variety of mathematical topics needed to prepare students for college-level statistics, quantitative reasoning, or algebra-intensive courses, as well as the workplace and as productive citizens.

This book is an optional companion to the Dana Center's Foundations of Mathematical Reasoning (FMR). It contains structured individual and collaborative activities for use during an additional support class, for students who are at the adult basic education level. These worksheets are backmapped from the FMR activities and prepare students to be able to complete the upcoming FMR preview assignments on their own; they are not intended to support traditional texts. Support content prepares students in developing conceptual understanding of numeracy, evaluating expressions and formulas; rates, ratios, and proportions; percentages; solving equations; linear models; data interpretations, including graphs and tables; verbal, algebraic, and graphical representations of functions; and exponential models. It also supports development of multiple strategies for solving problems, and the ability to read, write, and talk about mathematical concepts.

This companion course should run throughout the term; three contact hours per week, with the same instructor, are recommended.