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    EDUCATION 475-4?
    DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: MATHEMATICS
    Spring, 1987 ?
    Instructor: ?
    Sara Joyce
    Tuesdays, 4:30 - 8:20 ?
    Phone: ?
    291-4229
    Location: MPX 7506
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    Message: ?
    291-3395
    Prerequisite: Educ. 401/402 or equivalent.
    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 workshop fashion with students expected to:
    - become familiar with and confident in the use of a variety of manipulative aids;
    - 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.
    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, what are fractions, etc.), and from the
    vantage point of the role of mathematics in everyone's learning of language and general growth (e.g.,
    integration of other subjects, relationships to language arts, and so on).
    Students will be expected to:
    - participate fully in classrork and discussions, and complete homework assignments;
    - study their own strengths, weaknesses, and questions vis-a-vis the teaching/learning
    of mathematics, and to keep a record--a journal--of this study;
    - complete a term project developed in consultation with the instructor.
    Grades will be assessed from: self-evaluation, instructor evaluation, written work and participation in all
    suggested activities.
    Textbooks:
    Trivett, John V. ._. And So On: New Designs for Teaching Mathematics. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises
    Ltd., 1980.
    Dawson, A.J. (Sandy). Children Teaching Themselves Mathematics. Vancouver: S.F.U., 1981.
    (Available from Instructor)

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