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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)