Connections Between Mathematics and Mathematics Education

Catalog description

Course connects college-level mathematics with secondary school mathematics in terms of curriculum content and research on teaching and learning. MTHED 511 Connections Between Mathematics and Mathematics Education (3) The course is organized around key areas of college-level mathematics. In each area, the college-level mathematics focus is on critical ideas, such as fundamental concepts, powerful techniques, and important theorems. These ideas are then explored as abstractions of secondary school mathematics content and as justifications for procedures taught in secondary schools. Resulting new mathematics understandings will be used to understand research on learning and teaching mathematics and to apply research to secondary school mathematics instruction. Mathematics curriculum expectations will include both mathematics content topics and mathematical practices and processes.