EDUC. 475-4 DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: MATHEMATICS
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    (SECONDARY)
    INTERSESSION 1981 ?
    INSTRUCTOR:. Dr. Tom O'Shea
    Office: MPX 9616
    Tuesday and Friday, 12:30 - 4:20 p.m.
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    Phone: ?
    291-4453
    LOCATION: Campus
    A slightly modified passage from the Guidelines for the Preparation of Teachers of
    Mathematics published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
    is as follows:
    Prospective teachers of mathematics at any level should know
    and understand mathematics substantially beyond that which
    they may be expected to teach. They should he able to relate
    that mathematics to the world of their pupils, to the natural
    sciences, and to the social sciences. They should also he
    aware of the role of mathematics in our culture (Pg. 7).
    The focus of Education 475 will be on relating mathematics to the world of the
    pupils. The course will include investigations into the school curriculum,
    identification of valuable topics "outside" the curriculum demonstrations of
    varying approaches to teaching specific topics, exposure to resources for
    remediation and enrichment, and opportunities for students to round out their own
    mathematical background.
    Specific goals from the NCTM guidelines to be addressed are as follows:
    Teachers of mathematics should be able:
    - to relate educational ideas and experiments of the present
    to those of the past
    - to select and adapt strategies and materials that are
    consistent with professional knowledge about learning
    - to evaluate conditions, strategies, and materials used
    to teach mathematics
    - to recognize stages of cognitive, affective, and psycho-
    motor development in children and individual differences
    between children as these differences pertain to the learning
    of mathematics
    - to diagnose and prescribe remedies for common disabilities
    in the learning of mathematics and to know what tools and
    techniques are available to help with diagnosis and
    correction
    - to identify mathematically talented students and design
    learning activities to facilitate their mathematical growth
    - to judge the significance of behavioural, educational, and
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    mathematical studies for improving mathematics education
    - to use various techniques, to.-e-Va-luate----;ind------J-mprove'---t-heir own
    teaching methods
    TEXTS: nil

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