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EDUC. 475-4 DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: MATHEMATICS

ELEMENTARY

INTERSESSION 1981

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INSTRUCTOR: Prof. John Trivett

Office hours: Mondays! Wednesdays

10 a.m. - 12 noon

Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30 - 4:20

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LOCATION: Campus

The course is mainly for prospective primary and intermediate grade

teachers who wish to learn and begin to practice the fundamentals of

the learning and teaching of elementary mathematics. The usual contents

of the B.C. curriculum will be exa'n4ned both from a method perspective

(how do you teach multiolicaton, fractions, equations. etc.), from the

viewpoint of the mathematics (what are fractions, what is multiplication,

etc.) and the role of math in everyone's learning of language and general

growth (eg. integration of other subjects, relationship to language arts).

The course will he operated on enjoyable, workshop lines. Students will

be expected to:

a)

participate fully in classwork, discussion and homework,

studying their own strengths, weaknesses and questions

b)

extend their own math knowledge b

y

working at the subject

matter they expect to teach

c)

relate the learning of math to the learning powers of

children

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:

TRIVETT, John V.; . . . AND SO ON - NEW DESIGNS FOR TEACHIN( MATHEMATICS;

Detslig Enterprises Ltd., Calgary, 1980