Numbers and Operations.

Catalog description

Semester course; 4 lecture hours. 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 131 , STAT 208 or STAT 210 with a minimum grade of C. Enrollment is restricted to students majoring in programs to prepare early childhood and elementary teachers (B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education and Teaching and B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education and Teaching). The course will explore ways of representing numbers, relationships between numbers, number systems including whole numbers, integers and rational numbers, the meanings of operations and how they relate to one another, properties of numbers, and computation within the number systems as a foundation for algebra. Topics will be investigated through problem-solving and mathematical discourse and will include explorations with manipulatives and computer software.