Description
Designed for secondary math education majors, the course provides an overview of secondary math education-history, issues, state, and national standards. Standards-based instruction for secondary math will be examined and applied. Includes an emphasis on instructional technologies. The course is an applied study of current strategies, materials, technologies, and content related to the learning and teaching of secondary school mathematics. Covers units and lessons in applied arithmetic, algebra, geometry, functions, probability and statistics, trigonometry, and discrete mathematics, with attention to the historical significance of ideas. Includes hands-on investigations with manipulatives, visuals, graphing calculators, and computers. Prerequisites: Admission to teacher education; Educ 313; Educ 316; Educ 303; Educ 306. Corequisite: Educ 398 or Educ 399. Offered: Fall, as needed