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SIMON FRASERUNIVERSITY
DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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Jonathan Driver, Dean of Graduate Studies
Chair, Senate Graduate Studies Committee
SUBJECT: Faculty of Education: Calendar revisions (GS 2005.38)
DATE: ?
September 29, 2005
cc: ?
Tom O'Shea, EDUC
At its meeting of 12
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September 2005 Senate Graduate Studies Committee approved the
following program changes in the Faculty of Education:
Intermediate and Elementary Mathematics Education (MA, MEd) -
deletion from the calendar
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Rationale:
The program has not been offered for many years and
therefore discontinued.
Motion:
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"that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of
Governors deletion of the Intermediate and Elementary
Mathematics Education (MA, MEd) program"
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Senate Graduate Studies Committee (SGSC)
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Thomas O'Shea, Director, Faculty of Education
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Intermediate and Elementary Mathematics Education
Program
DATE:
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August 26, 2005
Dear Members of the SGSC:
The attached graduate program (Intermediate and Elementary Mathematics
Education) has not been offered for some years, and the faculty of Education
recommends that it be discontinued.
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Deletion of Intermediate and Elementary
Mathematics from the University Calendar
Intermediate and Elementary
Mathematics Education
This program leads to the MA or MEd course work/
comprehensive exam degree and meets the needs of
practising elementary and intermediate grade
teachers. Students complete 25 credit hours in
education and mathematics and a master's thesis (10
credits). MEd students complete 35 credit hours, of
which 25 are core courses with a minimum of 10
elective hours in education and/or mathematics and a
comprehensive exam. After the first four courses are
completed, the student in consultation with faculty
members, will choose either the MA or MEd option.
Core Courses
EDUC 844-5 The Research Basis of Mathematics
Education
EDUC 845-4 Learning Mathematics with Computers
EDUC 846-4 Foundations of Mathematics Education
EDUC 847-4 Teaching and Learning Mathematics
MATH 601-4 Discovering Mathematics I
MATH 6024 Discovering Mathematics II
Electives
The remaining courses are selected from graduate
level courses in the Faculty of Education or in the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
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