Methods of Teaching Mathematics at the Secondary Level

Catalog description

ED-365 focuses on the teaching of secondary mathematics. It is intended to deepen future secondary school teachers' understanding of the secondary mathematics curriculum and build their competencies at the level of instructional implementation. The course includes research-based pedagogical strategies for teaching linguistically diverse students, those with diverse learning needs, incorporating instructional technology into the classroom and utilizing data to inform instructions. Essential elements of effective instruction, including inquiry-based learning, implementing tasks that promote reasoning and problem-solving, assessment, facilitating meaningful mathematical discourse, eliciting and using evidence of student thinking, grouping strategies and effective questioning are explored as these are techniques utilized to bring conceptual understanding of mathematics to all learners. Education majors only.