EDUCATION 475-4

DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: MATHEMATICS

Summer Session, 1988

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Instructor:

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Daphne Trivett

July 4- August 12

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Phone: ?

922-6683 (home)

Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 - 12:20

Location: 7500B

PREREQUISITE:

Educ. 401/402 or equivalent

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

* Extend students' knowledge of mathematics taught in elementary schools

* Examine objectives and rationale for the teaching and learning of math so that practical approaches to to

topics can be developed

* Broaden the awareness of the range of resources available to teachers of school mathematics

MATHEMATICS CONTENT:

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sets, relations, and operations

* place value and work in other bases

* number theory and the development of systems taught in schools including integers, fractions, decimals,

irrational numbers

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geometry

graphing,

and

functions,

measurement

data collection and interpretation

PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT:

* problem solving

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use

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of

role

concrete

of drill,

materials

practice, exploration, and play

* B.C. Math Curriculum, textbooks, and other materials available for implementation of curriculum

* planning lessons and units of study

* dealing with mistakes, discoveries, creativity and conjecture in terms of developing strategies for teaching,

evaluation and remediation

* integration of math into other areas of curriculum

REQUIRED ACTIVITIES:

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do

participate

readings

in

and

class

assignments

activities and discussions

* record, report, reflect and question through feedback folder system

* submit a culminating project at close of course. This project is to be a study or an exploration of a topic or

area in mathematics teaching of interest or of future use to the students. It must reflect things learned in the

course and include ideas for classroom activities to enrich and illustrate mathematics

* present to the class the beginnin

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of a lesson (10 minutes maximum).

REQUIRED TEXT:

Children Teaching Themselves. A collection compiled by A. J. Sandy Dawson.

Hel p

ing Children Learn Mathematics, Robert E. Reys, Marilyn N. Suydam, Mary Lindquist

(ISBN #0-13-387027-8)