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Education 475-4

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Summer Session, 1980

Designs For Learning - Mathematics (Elementary)

Instructor: 1artin Hoffman

Time: Tuesday and Friday, 12:30 - 4:30

July 7th to August 15, 1980

Text: Trivett, ...And So On.

This course is designed for elementary school teachers,

prospective or active, who wish to increase their basic un-

derstanding of the nature of mathematical activity, and ex-

plore the learning/teaching process as it applies to mathe-

matics. Various topics of the elementary school curriculum

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will be examined both from a methodological perepective and

from the viewpoint of the mathematics behind these topics.

The course will be operated in a workshop fashion with

students having the opportunity to

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increase their knowledge of the uses of certain

manipulative materials such as rods, geoboards, and

so on ... , which lend themselves to the efficient

study of mathematical questions.

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develop approaches to the teaching of mathematics

in which students are given the responsibility for

their own learning.

c) explore techniques of classroom organization which

increase instructional efficiency for all Students.