Course Description
Interrelationships between contemporary mathematics content for elementary schools, effective mathematical communication with children, and learning theory.
Athena Title
TCHG MATH ELEM
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will • investigate learning theories that are applicable to mathematics in P-5 • investigate contemporary mathematics content for P-5 • investigate effective means of communicating mathematically with P-5 students • critically examine the interrelationships among learning theories, contemporary content, and communication and the implications for instruction
Topical Outline
• Learning theories such as behaviorism connectionism cognitive science information processing constructivism • Contemporary mathematics content such as prenumber concepts whole number concepts and operations rational number concepts and operations geometry and measurement probability and data analysis prealgebra • Communication strategies such as individual interviews small group cooperative learning whole class discourse providing feedback on written work
Syllabus
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