Prerequisites & Bulletin Description
Course Objectives
- Help you learn and explore the geometry, probability and measurement strands 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 geometry, probability and measurement strands 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
| Topics | Number of Weeks |
|---|---|
| Polygons, Polyhedra, Concrete Representations, Nets, Euler's Rule | 2 |
| Angle, Angles of Polygons, Regular Polygons | 2 |
| Platonic Solids, Tangrams, Tessellations | 1 |
| Probability, Counting Possibilities | 1 |
| Joint Probability, Counting Choices, Pascal's Triangle | 2 |
| Assessing Randomness (optional) | 1 |
| Mean, Median, Mode, Midrange (optional) | 1 |
| Measurement, Metric Units, Linear Units, Scales | 1 |
| Area units, areas of rectangles, Pick's Theorem, Pythagorean Theorem (last two optional) | 1.5 |
| Volume units, volumes of prisms | 1.5 |
| Tests and Projects | 2 |
Textbooks & Software
None. There will be handouts in class
Submitted by: Eric Hsu
Date: April 29, 2003