Elements of Numbers Operation

Catalog description

The first course in a three-course sequence for students to teach at the preschool, elementary school, or middle school level. Topics include insight into the four arithmetic operations, properties and algorithms for whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, and decimals, proportional reasoning, and number theory. Visual and concrete representations are explored. 3 class/2 lab hours. Prerequisite: Math placement score, MAT 0104 with a grade of C or better. Note: MAT 1050 transfers to UMCP as MAT 212. It is designed to give prospective teachers a deep and comprehensive understanding of the mathematical content knowledge needed to teach successfully in the early grades. This is not a teaching methods course; nor is it a course that teaches elementary mathematics. Rather, it provides keys to how and why elementary mathematics works.