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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Intersession: May 9 - June 17, 1977
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Instructor: Don Citrin
EDUCATION 475 - 4 Designs for Learning: Mathematics (Elementary)
Coals: 1. To increase awareness of what it means to function mathematically.
2. To use this awareness in order to design situations that build
upon the creative powers of the learners.
As a means to heighten these awarenesses we will consider the following:
- that mathematics is a dynamic activity of the mind that everyone
possesses •
- that mathematics can be built on the concrete experiences available.
- that certain materials (i.e. cuisenaire materials, geoboards, attribute
blocks, fingers) can be particularly efficient in studying a question.
- that mathematics is not contained in these materials.
- the place convention and notation play in mathematics.
- how to bring the mathematical gifts of the child to teachers' interest
In the curriculum; (K7).