Fundamental Math/Adv. Standpt

Catalog description

Fundamental Mathematics From An Advanced Standpoint: Mathematics taught in secondary education will be examined from an advanced standpoint. This course is intended to help preservice secondary mathematics teachers make connections between their undergraduate mathematics education and the mathematics that they will teach. Topics covered in the course include real and complex numbers, functions, algebraic structures and solving equations, natural numbers, induction and recursion, divisibility properties of integers and polynomials, systems of modular arithmetic, and number fields.