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
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