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    Education 475-4
    Designs for Learning: Mathematics?
    Elementary
    Intersession, 1984
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    Instructor: Ken Harper
    Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:30 - 9:20
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    Location: on campus
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    The course is designed for prospective and practising elementary
    school teachers who wish to explore the fundamentals of the learning/teaching
    process as it applies to mathematics. The course will be operated in a work-
    shop fashion with students expected to:
    -become familiar with and confident in the use of a variety of
    manipulative aids such a colored rods, logic blocks, geo-boards,
    and so on;
    -engage in discussion and formulate their own rationale as to the how
    and why of teaching mathematics;
    -explore the realities of children's and adult's learning powers and
    patterns by an examination of their own learning powers and patterns.
    On completion of the course it is hoped that teachers will feel more
    at ease with the subject of mathematics, be able to deal confidently with the
    prescribed curriculum, and be able to plan mathematical instruction within
    a consistent framework.
    OUTLINE OF TOPICS:
    The topics to be dealt with are the usual contents of the B.C. Curriculum
    which will be examined from a methodological perspective (how do you teach
    multiplication, fractions, etc.), from the viewpoint of mathematics (what is
    multiplication, what are fractions, etc.), and from the vantage point of the
    role of mathematics in everyone's learning of language and general growth
    (eg. integration of other subjects, relationships to language arts, and so on).
    TYPICAL REQUIREMENTS:
    Students will be expected to:
    -participate fully in classwork and discussions, and complete homework
    assignments;
    -study their own strengths, weaknesses, and questions vis-a-vis
    the teaching/learning of mathematics;
    -prepare and teach a prototype lesson demonstrating their facility
    in using and understanding of some manipulative aid appropriate to
    mathematics instruction;
    -complete a term project developed in consultation with the instructor.
    ELIGIBILITY:
    Education 401/402 or equivalent.
    TEXTBOOKS:
    Dawson,
    A.
    F. (Sandy). Children Teaching Themselves Mathematics. Vancouver:
    S.F.U., 1981 (Available from Instructor)

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