Prerequisites & Bulletin Description
Course Objectives
- Help you learn and explore the number strand for the elementary curriculum.
- Help you see math as interesting and relevant.
- Help you see yourself as capable of learning mathematics and solving mathematical problems on your own.
- Introduce you to materials to teach content in the number strand to elementary school students.
- Convince you that math is not a bunch of formulas to be memorized but problems to solve and patterns to find.
Evaluation of Students
There will be a Midterm and a Final Exam. Weekly homework will be assigned and there will be two projects required.
Course Outline
The following timeline is approximate.
| Topics | Number of Weeks |
|---|---|
| Functions | 1 |
| Sets and Venn Diagrams | 1 |
| Symbols, Bases, Concrete Representations | 1 |
| Addition, Subtraction Algorithms | 1 |
| Multiplication Algorithms & Representations | 1.5 |
| Division Algorithms & Representations | 1.5 |
| Fractions, Concrete Representations | 1 |
| Equivalent Forms, Fraction Addition & Subtraction | 1 |
| Fraction Comparison | 1 |
| Fraction Multiplication | 1 |
| Fraction Division | 1 |
| Tests and Projects | 2 |
Textbooks & Software
None. There will be handouts in class.
Submitted by: Eric Hsu
Date: April 2, 2003