Methods and Materials for Teaching Math

Catalog description

This course will enable the pre-service teacher to integrate mathematics and science in the K-6 classroom through interdisciplinary thematic units. Higher order thinking skills, cooperative learning, and technology will be explored throughout the course. Hands-on activities and experiments will be employed to help the pre-service teacher feel confident about integrating mathematics, science, and technology. The course is a collection of investigation modules in which students will be presented with real world problems and will be assisted in developing model solutions to the problems using state of the art technological means. The primary vehicles for the methods portion of the course are the textbooks. Content is delivered through classroom laboratory activities, reference materials, and technology.