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EDUCATION 475_14
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Designs For Learning: Mathematics
Summer Session 1977
Instructors: Prof. A.J. Dawson
Prof. J.V. Trivett
Anita LoSasso
David S. Fielker (U.K.
The course will include both elementary and secondary student
teachers with a large number of participants.
Using seminar format, students will study the bases for school
arithmetic and mathematics.
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Seminar groups will concentrate on issues
such as
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quality and correctness in student performance, areas of the
curriculum where improvement is needed and specific applicationsto the
K-12 curriculum.
The course will be essentially an inter-related mixture of
enjoyable practical work, discussion, work with children, films,
videos, etc.
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From the manipulation and actions on coloured rods,
attribute blocks, symbols, geoboards and counters it will concentrate
on individual need for insight skills and awareness of what mathematics
is, and how it can be communicated to children in school.
Evaluation of each student's and leader's worth; his/her
accomplishments from the course;
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the expected value of this for a
beginning teacher - this goes on all the time.
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For the more limited
purposes of a university grade, extracts will be made from time: ,
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time from that continuum of reality, taking into consideration te
leaders' views of student participation and their own views of their
work and growth in learning mathematics and in learning how to teach
mathematics in B.C. or elsewhere.
Required Text:
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The Common Sense of Teaching Mathematics, Gattegno.
Recommended texts: What We Owe Children, Gattegno.
Games Children Play for Learning Mathematics,
Tr i vett.
The Psychology of Learning Mathematics,
Skemp (for secondary students).
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