This booklet is intended to assist tutors in helping transitional and low-level adult basic education (ABE) students acquire the math skills required to make a successful adjustment to regular ABE classes. The exercises provided are intended primarily for use in student-tutor learning teams, with students gradually completing greater portions of the exercises on their own as they become increasingly self-directed. Major emphasis is given to solving word problems. Materials are provided on approaching word problems, finding key words, key words typically associated with each of the four arithmetic operations, the importance of thinking carefully and logically, techniques for drawing diagrams to solve word problems and breaking them up into smaller parts, and the importance of using common sense when solving math word problems. Guidelines and exercises dealing with solving problems involving whole numbers, fractions (mixed and simple), and decimal fractions are also included. A 115-item bibliography concludes the document. (MN)