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EDUCATION 475 - DESIGNS FOR LEARNING MATH

Spring Session, 1991

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Instructor: Waldo Dahl

Location: Northern Lights College

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Phone: ?

785-5907

Fort St. John Campus ?

785-6981

MON.,WED.& THURS. 1:30 - 3:00 P.M.

JAN.7 - APR.5, 1991

PROCEDURE

This course will consist of a two hour lab session and a two hour

lecture discussion session. For the lab session you will be required

to keep a record of your lab activities. The assignments in this

course will include the following:

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preparation of journal abstracts of articles from math education

journals;

2.

weekly end-of-chapter work on the topic of the week;

3.

a collaboratively prepared unit plan and an individually prepared

lesson plan.

In addition, there will be 20 minute weekly quizzes as well as a final

covering work of the entire course.

CONTENT

Week 1 - Chapter 1

Attribute Materials and Mathematical Thinking

Week 2 - Chapter 2

Number and It's Uses

Week 3 - Chapter 7

Place Value

Week 4 - Chapter 4

Developing Operations on Counting Numbers with Cuisenair Rods

Week 5 - Chapter 5

Basic Facts and Their Uses - Operations on Whole Numbers

Week 6 - Chapter 9

Whole Number Algorithms and Their Uses

Week 7 - Chapter 3

Informal Geometry

Week 8 - Chapter 6

Measurement and the Metric System

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Education 475 - Design for Learning Math

Course Outline - Page 2

Week 9 - Chapter 8

Geometry on a Geoboard

Week 10 - Chapter 10

Number Patterns and Problem Solving

Week 11 - Chapter 11

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Rational Numbers ?

(2) ?

Diagnosis

Week 12

(1) ?

Statistics

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(2) ?

Evaluating Pupil Progress

GRADING

Lab Records

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Pass/Fail ?

15

Assignments:

Journal Abstracts ? 10

End of Chapter Work ? 15

Unit and Lesson Plan Pass/Fail

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10

Quizzes ?

20

Final

Course Grade

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100

TEXT

Fuys D. & Tishler, R.

Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School

Scott Foresman & Co. 1979