Mathematics for Education Majors I

Catalog description

This is the first course in a three-course sequence for education majors, This course covers the concept of Numbers, starting with counting numbers, decimals, negative numbers, fractions, and real numbers; different ways of representing numbers, and the relations between them are explored; different meanings and applications of the arithmetic operations are studied; standard and non-standard algorithms for arithmetic are considered in light of the representation of numbers. May not be used by CLAS students to satisfy the mathematics component of the core.