Wednesday,

5:30 - 9:20

OR

REGULAR SUMMER SEMESTER,

1983

INSTRUCTOR: A. J. (Sandy) Dawson

Sarah Joyce

Office: MPX

8632

Telephone:

291-3189

Friday,

8:30 - 12:20

LOCATION: on campus

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Education

1+75_4

Designs for Learning: Mathematics

ELEMENTARY

The course is designed for prospective and practising elementary school teachers

who wish to explore the fundamentals of the learning/teaching process as it applies

to mathematics. The course will be operated in a workshop fashion with students

expected to:

- become familiar with and confident in the use of a variety of

manipulative aids such as colored rods, logic blocks, geo-boards,

and so on;

- engage in discussion and formulate their own rationale as to the

how and why of teaching mathematics;

- explore the realities of children's and adult's learning powers and

patterns by

an

examination of their own learning powers and patterns.

On completion of the course it is hoped that teachers will feel more at ease with

the subject of mathematics, be able to deal confidently with the prescribed curriculum,

and be able to plan mathematical instruction within a consistent framework.

OUTLINE OF TOPICS:

The topics to be dealt with are the usual contents of the B.C. Curriculum which will

be examined from a methodological perspective (how do you teach multiplication,

fractions, etc.), from the viewpoint of mathematics (what is multiplication, what

are fractions, etc.), and from the vantage point of the role of mathematics in

everyone's learning of language and general growth (eg. integration of other

subjects, relationships to language arts, and so on).

TYPICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Students will be expected to:

- participate fully in classwork and discussions, and complete

homework assignments;

- study their own strengths, weaknesses, and questions vis-a-vis the

teaching/learning of mathematics, and to keep a record--a

journal--of this study;

- prepare and teach a prototype lesson demonstrating their facility

in using and understanding of some manipulative aid appropriate

to mathematics instruction;

- complete a term project developed in consultation with the instructor.

ELIGIBILITY: ?

Education

1+01/1+02

or equivalent.

TEXTBOOKS:

Trivett, John V.

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.. . And So On: New Designs for Teaching Mathematics. Calgary:

Deselig Enterprises Ltd.,

1980.

Dawson, A.J.(Sandy). Children Teaching Themselves Mathematics. Vancouver: S.F.U.

1981. ?

(Available from Instructor)